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Controller   /kəntrˈoʊlər/   Listen
Controller

noun
1.
Someone who maintains and audits business accounts.  Synonyms: accountant, comptroller.
2.
A person who directs and restrains.  Synonym: restrainer.
3.
A mechanism that controls the operation of a machine.  Synonym: control.  "I turned the controls over to her"



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"Controller" Quotes from Famous Books



... said, 'Thou art a Rishi (i.e., one cognisant of all mantras), share of the largest portion in sacrifices, ever resplendent, the controller along with the Rishi wended their way towards Garuda and adored him of birds, the presiding spirit of the animate and the inanimate universe. Thou art the destroyer of all, the creator of all; thou art the very Hiranyagarbha; thou art ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa - Translated into English Prose - Adi Parva (First Parva, or First Book) • Kisari Mohan Ganguli (Translator)

... Dubarrydom and its D'Aiguillons are gone for ever. There is a young, still docile, well-intentioned king; a young, beautiful and bountiful, well-intentioned queen; and with them all France, as it were, become young. For controller-general, a virtuous, philosophic Turgot. Philosophism sits joyful in her glittering salons; "the age of revolutions approaches" (as Jean Jacques wrote), but then of happy, ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XII. - Modern History • Arthur Mee

... time when all France was mad about Law's system, and Law was controller-general, there came to him in the presence of a great assembly a man who was always right, who always had reason on his side. Said ...
— Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary • Voltaire

... He is All, and that there can be none beside Him; that God is good, and the producer only of good; and hence, that whatever militates against health, harmony, or holiness, is an unjust usurper of the throne of the controller of all mankind. Note this, that if you have power in error, you forfeit the power that Truth bestows, and its salutary influence on ...
— Rudimental Divine Science • Mary Baker Eddy

... his brother, the newly-elected City Controller, had sailed away on the yacht "American," leaving behind them an unpaid-for 2000-foot wharf and close to a million in debts; forged city warrants and promissory notes were held by practically every large ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman


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