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volume
Noun
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The volume of sound or music is how loud it is.
Teens listening to their MP3 players at high volume can damage their hearing.
Hey! Turn down the volume. It's too loud.
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The volume of something is the amount of it.
The traffic volume on Ontario highways jumped 12% last year.
The story usually experiences a high customer volume around Christmas.
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The volume of a material or a container is the amount of space it takes.
The volume of water of a typical shower is about 43 litres.
Use of newer cars can reduce the volume of COsubmath2/math/sub produced.
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A volume is a book, magazine, or other printed material, usually part of a series.
He has published a second volume of autobiography, in which he deals with his years as a student.
The research can be found in the most recent volume of The Canadian Journal of Language and Linguistics.
control
Noun
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If you have control over someone or something, you can make it do what you want.
He should try to take control and tell the other handlers what to do.
in the rain, he had lost control on the wet surface and spun off the road.
The country fell under the direct control of the army.
They are trying to keep tighter control over spending.
The government will demand improved pollution control systems for all factories.
Most companies devote some resources to quality control and product testing.
Unless birth control methods are used, sooner or later the woman is likely to get pregnant.
The continuing Soviet desire for arms control led to a SALT II treaty.
The brain's control systems tend to decline with age so that, for instance, our balance gets less good.
The experimental group took the medicine while the control group took a sugar pill.
Suddenly the airplane went out of control and started diving.
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A control is a button, switch, dial, etc. that lets you make a machine do what you want.
If you turn off your TV with the remote control, it continues to use a quarter of normal power.
She touched the volume control and the sound dropped.
control
Verb
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If you control something, you make it do what you want.
Too many people are overweight because they can't control their eating behaviour.
The company is controlled by a New York businessman.
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If you control something, you do not let its numbers or size grow too much.
The new plan should control inflation.
block
Noun
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A block is a hard piece of material, usually with six smooth sides.
When I was young, I liked building things with wooden blocks.
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A city block is the distance from one road to the next.
We have to walk about three blocks to the restaurant.
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In computers, a block is a restriction that prevents access to something.
I could not start a page on Wikipedia because of a block.
block
Verb
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If mathX/math is blocking mathY/math, then mathY/math can't go past mathX/math.
The water in the bath won't go down. There's something blocking the drain.
The road was blocked by police.
Excuse me! You're blocking my view. I can't see.