Dictionary Definition
uncontrolled adj
1 not being under control; out of control; "the
greatest uncontrolled health problem is AIDS"; "uncontrolled
growth" [ant: controlled]
2 extravagant or extreme; "the inhumanity of his
untempered principles"- M.S.Dworkin [syn: unrestrained, untempered]
User Contributed Dictionary
Translations
not controlled
- Finnish: vapaa, rajoittamaton, kontrolloimaton, esteetön
Extensive Definition
Control is used in a variety of contexts to
express "mastery" or "proficiency": e.g. "Music
students attending a master class are expected to have full control
of basic skills such as rhythm and pitch".
Control may also refer to:
Management and finance
- Control (management): an element of management
- Control as an element of management accounting
- Internal control: a process implemented in an organization to help in achieving specific goals
- Comptroller (or controller): a senior financial officer in an organization
Science and technology
- Biological pest control, a natural method of controlling pests such as insects, weeds, and plant diseases
- Control engineering, a discipline of modeling and controlling of systems
- Control system, the ability to control some mechanical or chemical equipment
- Widget (computing) (control or widget), a component of a graphical user interface
- Scientific control to isolate variables in experiments
- Control network, a set of reference-points of known geospatial coordinates
- Control theory, the mathematical theory about controlling dynamical systems over time
- Control key, on a computer keyboard
- Argument control, in linguistics
- Controlling for a variable, in statistics
- Control freak, in psychology
- Control, a brand name for the drug lorazepam
Popular culture
Film and television
- Kontroll, a 2003 Hungarian movie (released as Control internationally)
- Control (2007 film), a movie about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, directed by Anton Corbijn
- CONTROL, a fictional secret U.S. government spy agency in the television series Get Smart
- "Control" (House episode), an episode of the American TV series House
- Control (1920 film), a UK comedy short by Frank Miller
- Control or , a 1987 made-for-TV movie starring Burt Lancaster
- Control (2004 film) Direct-to-video movie starring Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe and Michelle Rodriguez. A convict gets a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo behavior modification.
Music
-
Control (Janet Jackson album), a 1986 album by Janet
Jackson
- "Control" (Janet Jackson song), a song from the album above
- "Control" (Puddle of Mudd song), a 2001 song by Puddle of Mudd
- Control (Pedro the Lion album), a 2002 album by Pedro the Lion
- Control (GoodBooks album) a 2007 album by GoodBooks
- Control (Mute Math song) a 2004 song by Mute Math
- She's Lost Control Song by Joy Division
- Control (Metro Station song)
See also
uncontrolled in German: Control
uncontrolled in French: Contrôle
uncontrolled in Dutch: Controlling
uncontrolled in Polish: Kontrola
uncontrolled in Portuguese: Controle
uncontrolled in Serbo-Croatian: Kontrola
uncontrolled in Turkish: Kontrol
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abandoned, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, bibulous, boisterous, capricious, changeable, changeful, crapulent, crapulous, desultory, deviable, disobedient, dizzy, eccentric, erratic, excessive, extravagant, extreme, fast and loose,
fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, frantic, freakish, frenzied, giddy, gluttonous, go-go, headstrong, heady, immoderate, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, incontinent, indecisive, indulgent, infirm, inordinate, insubordinate, intemperate, irregular, irrepressible, irresolute, irresponsible, lawless, lax, licentious, loose, mazy, mercurial, moody, mutinous, nonrestrictive, out of
control, overindulging, permissive, prodigal, rambling, rampant, reinless, restless, riotous, roving, scatterbrained,
self-indulgent, self-willed, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, spasmodic, spineless, swinish, too much, unaccountable, unbridled, uncertain, unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncurbed, undependable, undisciplined, unfixed, unforced, unfrugal, ungoverned, uninhibited, unlimited, unmastered, unmeasured, unmuzzled, unpredictable, unreined, unreliable, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unruly, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water,
unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubdued, unsuppressed, unthrifty, vacillating, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary,
vicissitudinous,
volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wild, wildcat, willful, wishy-washy