controller

CEFRB2

/kənˈtɹəʊlə/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person or device that directs or manages something.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.

Examples

  • Air traffic controller is an extremely high pressure job.

  • Please connect a controller.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /kənˈtɹoʊlɚ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.

  2. One who controls something.

  3. A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.

More examples

In context

  • The choice of controller is determined by the matrix verb. If, as in (30b) and (3la), the main verb does not subcategorize for an OBJ, then the controller is the matrix SUBJ. In this case the complement clause is interpreted as having the same subject as the...

  • Nothing more can be squeezed out of the motive power unit once the master controller has been moved to full on.

  • The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.

Synonyms

Quick test

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The air traffic blank guided the plane to a safe landing runway.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English countreroller, from Anglo-Norman contreroulour and Middle French contreroleur (French contrôleur), from Medieval Latin contrārotulātor, from *contrārotulāre (from which control). Doublet of comptroller. By surface analysis, control + -er.