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单词 controlled
释义
controlled
adjective
uk
/kənˈtrəʊld/us
/kənˈtroʊld/

controlledadjective(TAKING CARE)

involvingcareful,intentionalactionsthatlimitriskordanger:
Policecarriedout a controlledexplosionon asuspiciousvehicle.
Sheallowsherchildrento usemessagingappsthat give a more controlledenvironment,allowingher toblockmessagesfromstrangers.
Access to theinformationis very controlled.
Compare
non-controlled
uncontrolled
notallowingyouremotionsto bestronglyexpressedor toinfluenceyourbehaviour:
He says he is afarmore controlled andthoughtfulpersonthan he was when he wasyounger.
Sheseemsvery controlled, but those whoknowher well say she isimpulsive,warmandfunny.
More examples
  • Thebuildingswerebroughtdown in a controlleddemolition.
  • Whendiabetesis not controlled,patientspresentwitheyeandkidneyproblemsandseriousinfections.
  • Theprojectwill use controlledburnsandloggingtoclearovergrownareas.
  • Parking in theareawas not controlled, andfreeaccessinto theareawasallowed.
  • Theselaserscandelivera much more controlledbeamoflighttosmallareasof theaffectedskin.
  • Sheneedsto be aroundnicer,kinder, more controlledpeoplethan theonessheknewgrowingup.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Limiting and restricting
  • anti-libertarian
  • boundary
  • boxsomeone/somethingin
  • chain
  • chainsomeonetosomething
  • cramp
  • curb
  • curtail
  • curtailment
  • damage limitation
  • debilitating
  • hamstring
  • limit
  • limitation
  • limiting
  • localize
  • non-exempt
  • straitjacket
  • tempered
  • tiesomeonedown
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Self-control and moderation

controlledadjective(OF DRUG)

A controlledsubstancehasitsuse orsaletightlycontrolled bylawbecause it isconsideredto bedangerousor tocauseaddiction(= aninabilitytostopusing it). :
Hepleadedguiltytopossessionof controlledsubstances.
It is a controlleddrugapprovedforshort-termuse totreatinsomnia.
Compare
non-controlled
More examples
  • Medications can bedividedinto twocategories: controlled and non-controlled.
  • Manypharmacieshavestoppedsellingsomelegalcontrolledmedicineslikenarcoticpainkillers.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Limiting and restricting
  • anti-libertarian
  • boundary
  • boxsomeone/somethingin
  • chain
  • chainsomeonetosomething
  • cramp
  • curb
  • curtail
  • curtailment
  • damage limitation
  • debilitating
  • hamstring
  • limit
  • limitation
  • limiting
  • localize
  • non-exempt
  • straitjacket
  • tempered
  • tiesomeonedown
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controlledadjective(OF EXPERIMENT)

sciencespecialized
A controlledstudyortestuses acontrol(= anobjectorsystemthat is notchangedso that you cancompareit withsimilarobjectsorsystemsthat areintentionallychanged):
Many otherfactorscouldaccountfor theseresults, because these were notrandomizedcontrolledtrials.
a controlledexperiment/study
Opposite
non-controlled
More examples
  • Few controlledexperimentshave beenconductedonageingandcognitivehealth.
  • Theybeganarandomizedcontrolledstudyinto theeffectsofoestrogenon theheart.
  • The controlled,double-blindstudywasfundedby a £400,000grantfrom thegovernment.
  • These earlystudieswere not controlled and werecriticizedforselectionbias.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Medical studies & the people who study them
  • anatomist
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  • audiology
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  • bariatrics
  • cardiologist
  • mannikin
  • midwife
  • neurologist
  • oculist
  • optometry
  • oral surgeon
  • orthopaedics
  • orthoptics
  • orthoptist
  • orthotics
  • pharmacologist
  • virologist
  • virology
  • vivisectionist
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controlled
past simple and past participle ofcontrol
(Definition ofcontrolledfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcontrolled

controlled
The representational flexibility of the hypothesis space approach demands that the complexity of the representations becontrolled.
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As reported in all these studies, however, there is a fair amount of variability in speakers' intuitions of syllabification, even when dialect iscontrolledfor.
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This effect was only modestly reduced when psychiatric and sociodemographic predictors werecontrolledfor.
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Controlleddrugs represent 'the final barrier' and it should be removed.
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This indicated that maize callus produced raffinose in response to some, perhaps all, stresses, but that raffinose amounts may becontrolledby hydrolytic activity.
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Research, or indeed the content of teaching for that matter, must not becontrolledby those who are ignorant.
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During lignification, phenyl rings of lignin precursors align to the cellulose molecule surfaces in acontrolledand ordered process.
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There also had to be a sufficient level of evidence (in the form of randomizedcontrolledtrials) to support systematic review and meta-analysis.
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Sedimentation of the coal-bearing succession wascontrolledby both autogenic and allogenic factors.
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In fact, thecontrolledlaboratory events that served as the mnemonic targets of this investigation were relatively pedestrian.
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This suggests that the deformation of the lithosphere is stronglycontrolledby interfering vertical and lateral heterogeneities.
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Single-legged hopping robotics research similar results, when the spring-mass type vertical hopper wascontrolledwith a controller, called periodic forcing controller.
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In the second set of analyses, wecontrolledfor verbal and nonverbal intelligence (but not for the autoregressor).
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In this block, control algorithms for each one of the variables to becontrolledhave been programmed.
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In both sets of analyses, sociodemographic variables including age, education and income werecontrolledin the first block of the regression analysis.
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