Pest Definition–noun | 1. | an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance. | | 2. | an insect or other small animal that harms or destroys garden plants, trees, etc. | | 3. | a deadly epidemic disease, esp. a plague; pestilence. | |
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Control Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command. | | 2. | to hold in check; curb: to control a horse; to control one's emotions. | | 3. | to test or verify (a scientific experiment) by a parallel experiment or other standard of comparison. | | 4. | to eliminate or prevent the flourishing or spread of: to control a forest fire. | | 5. | Obsolete. to check or regulate (transactions), originally by means of a duplicate register. | –noun | 6. | the act or power of controlling; regulation; domination or command: Who's in control here? | | 7. | the situation of being under the regulation, domination, or command of another: The car is out of control. | | 8. | check or restraint: Her anger is under control. | | 9. | a legal or official means of regulation or restraint: to institute wage and price controls. | | 10. | a standard of comparison in scientific experimentation. | | 11. | a person who acts as a check; controller. | | 12. | a device for regula
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ting and guiding a machine, as a motor or airplane. | | 13. | controls, a coordinated arrangement of such devices. | | 14. | prevention of the flourishing or spread of something undesirable: rodent control. | | 15. | Baseball. the ability of a pitcher to throw the ball into the strike zone consistently: The rookie pitcher has great power but no control. | | 16. | Philately. any device printed on a postage or revenue stamp to authenticate it as a government issue or to identify it for bookkeeping purposes. | | 17. | a spiritual agency believed to assist a medium at a séance. | | 18. | the supervisor to whom an espionage agent reports when in the field. | |
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