Control vs. Monitor: What's the Difference?

Control and Monitor Definitions
Control
To exercise authoritative or dominating influence over; direct
The majority party controls the legislative agenda.
Monitor
One that admonishes, cautions, or reminds, especially with respect to matters of conduct.
Control
To adjust to a requirement; regulate
Rules that control trading on the stock market.
Valves that control the flow of water.
Monitor
A pupil who assists a teacher in routine duties.
Control
To hold in restraint; check
Struggled to control my temper.
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Monitor
A usually electronic device used to record, regulate, or control a process or system.
Control
To reduce or prevent the spread of
Used a pesticide to control insects.
Controlled the fire by dousing it with water.
Monitor
A video display or speaker used in a production studio to check audio or video quality
The sound engineer detected a hiss on the monitor.
Control
To verify or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or by comparing with another standard.
Monitor
(Computers)A device that accepts video signals from a computer and displays information on a screen; a video display.
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Control
To verify (a financial account, for example) by using a duplicate register for comparison.
Monitor
(Computers)A program that observes, supervises, or controls the activities of other programs.
Control
Authority or ability to manage or direct
Lost control of the skidding car.
The leaders in control of the country.
Monitor
An articulated device holding a rotating nozzle with which a jet of water is regulated, used in mining and firefighting.
Control
One that controls; a controlling agent, device, or organization.
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Monitor
A heavily ironclad warship of the 19th century with a low, flat deck and one or more gun turrets.
Control
An instrument.
Monitor
A modern warship designed for coastal bombardment.
Control
Controls A set of such instruments.
Monitor
See monitor lizard.
Control
A restraining device, measure, or limit; a curb
A control on prices.
Price controls.
Monitor
To check the quality or content of (an electronic audio or visual signal) by means of a receiver.
Control
A standard of comparison for checking or verifying the results of a scientific experiment.
Monitor
To check by means of an electronic receiver for significant content, such as military, political, or illegal activity
Monitor a suspected criminal's phone conversations.
Control
An individual or group used as a standard of comparison in a scientific experiment, as a group of subjects given an inactive substance in an experiment testing a new drug administered to another group of subjects.
Monitor
To keep track of systematically with a view to collecting information
Monitor the bear population of a national park.
Monitored the political views of the people.
Control
An intelligence agent who supervises or instructs another agent.
Monitor
To test or sample, especially on a regular or ongoing basis
Monitored the city's drinking water for impurities.
Control
A spirit presumed to speak or act through a medium.
Monitor
To keep close watch over; supervise
Monitor an examination.
Control
(transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
With a simple remote, he could control the toy truck.
Monitor
To direct.
Control
(construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
Monitor
To act as a monitor.
Control
To verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account) by comparison with another account.
Monitor
Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep.
Control
To call to account, to take to task, to challenge.
Monitor
A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
Control
(transitive) To hold in check, to curb, to restrain.
Monitor
(computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
The information flashed up on the monitor.
Control
Influence or authority over something.
The government has complete control over the situation.
Monitor
A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
Control
The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
Monitor
(computing) A program for viewing and editing.
A machine code monitor
Control
Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
Monitor
A student leader in a class.
Control
A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
Monitor
(nautical) One of a class of relatively small armored warships with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat. from 1862
Control
(project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
Monitor
(archaic) An ironclad.
Control
A control group or control experiment.
Monitor
A monitor lizard.
Control
A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
Monitor
(obsolete) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
Control
(graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box Ctrl.
Monitor
(engineering) A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring the several tools successively into position.
Control
(climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
Monitor
A monitor nozzle.
Control
(linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
Monitor
(transitive) To watch over; to guard.
Control
A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
Monitor
One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
You need not be a monitor to the king.
Control
A checkpoint along an audax route.
Monitor
Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class.
Control
A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
Monitor
Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (Varanus Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long.
Control
That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.
Monitor
An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.
Control
Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.
The House of Commons should exercise a control over all the departments of the executive administration.
Monitor
A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring successively the several tools in holds into proper position for cutting.
Control
The complete apparatus used to control a mechanism or machine in operation, as a flying machine in flight;
Monitor
A monitor nozzle.
Control
Any of the physical factors determining the climate of any particular place, as latitude,distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
Monitor
Display consisting of a device that takes signals from a computer and displays them on a CRT screen
Control
In research, an object or subject used in an experimental procedure, which is treated identically to the primary subject of the experiment, except for the omission of the specific treatment or conditions whose effect is being investigated. If the control is a group of living organisms, as is common in medical research, it is called the control group.
Monitor
Someone who supervises (an examination)
Control
The part of an experimental procedure in which the controls{6} are subjected to the experimental conditions.
Monitor
Someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided
Control
The group of technical specialists exercising control by remote communications over a distant operation, such as a space flight; as, the American Mission Control for manned flights is located in Houston.
Monitor
An iron-clad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac
Control
To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.
This report was controlled to be false.
Monitor
Electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions
Control
To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.
Give me a staff of honor for mine age,But not a scepter to control the world.
I feel my virtue struggling in my soul:But stronger passion does its power control.
Monitor
A piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble
Control
To assure the validity of an experimental procedure by using a control{7}.
Monitor
Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
Control
Power to direct or determine;
Under control
Monitor
Keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance
Control
A relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another;
Measures for the control of disease
They instituted controls over drinking on campus
Control
(physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc;
The timing and control of his movements were unimpaired
He had lost control of his sphincters
Control
A standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment;
The control condition was inappropriate for the conclusions he wished to draw
Control
The activity of managing or exerting control over something;
The control of the mob by the police was admirable
Control
The state that exists when one person or group has power over another;
Her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her
Control
Discipline in personal and social activities;
He was a model of polite restraint
She never lost control of herself
Control
Great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity;
A good command of French
Control
The economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.;
They wanted to repeal all the legislation that imposed economic controls
Control
A mechanism that controls the operation of a machine;
The speed control on his turntable was not working properly
I turned the controls over to her
Control
A spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance
Control
Exercise authoritative control or power over;
Control the budget
Command the military forces
Control
Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits;
Moderate your alcohol intake
Hold your tongue
Hold your temper
Control your anger
Control
Handle and cause to function;
Do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol
Control the lever
Control
Control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage;
She manipulates her boss
She is a very controlling mother and doesn't let her children grow up
The teacher knew how to keep the class in line
She keeps in line
Control
Verify or regulate by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard, of scientific experiments;
Are you controlling for the temperature?
Control
Verify by using a duplicate register for comparison;
Control an account
Control
Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something;
He verified that the valves were closed
See that the curtains are closed
Control the quality of the product
Control
Have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of;
Do you control these data?