control room
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3.4
- noun
- Specialized
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sala de control
- In the control room, the technician adjusted the settings to ensure the performance went smoothly.
- sit in the control room
- control room crew
- central control room
No just joking around with my staff in the control room that's that happens before every single episode.
- No just joking around with my staff in the control room that's that happens before every single episode.
- But when you see them land a mission to Mars, you see the NASA control room clapping and applauding.
- But once in a while you get access to the control room and then you can kind of mess with the dials and that's what happened there.
- So you were able to feed that through to the control room when you could and obviously be ready for any trouble.
- We had, by the way, just finished building this simulator control room at that point.
- No, it it was a central control room in Chile, Complete with what?
- Jimmy D open the control room and went to the control panel.
- But I remember my dad sitting in the control room with him.
Examples
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The main computer, located in the control room, controlled all parameters of testing.
Academic text (2001) -
Grant looked at all the computer monitors in the darkened control room, feeling irritable.
Fiction book (1990) -
We're in some sort of control room.
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I can get to the control room this way, right?
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- Show me to the control room.
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What about the control room, did you find a phone?
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And the scientists in the control room expect to see a natural world.
Fiction book (1990) -
The stations can be concentrated in a control room, scattered around a plant, or both.
Academic text (2003) -
In the CCTV control room, there is a deaf man who reads lips.
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The engineer monitored the equipment from the control room during the live broadcast.
Synonyms
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3.7
A place where people watch and direct a group's activities
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'control' (devices or mechanisms for managing operations) with 'room' (an indoor space) — i.e., a room containing controls or monitoring equipment. This noun+noun compounding pattern is common across languages (e.g. Spanish 'sala de control', French 'salle de contrôle') and follows regular English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
The noun control room comes from the simple picture of a room with equipment used to control machines and systems. People work there to watch and manage operations, so the phrase means 'a room for watching and managing operations'.