different between superintendent vs controller

English

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin superintendens, a calque of Ancient Greek ????????? (epískopos); thence being distantly related to English bishop.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?sju?p???n?t?nd?nt/, /?su?p???n?t?nd?nt/

Noun

superintendent (plural superintendents)

1. A person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something.
2. (Commonwealth of Nations) A police rank used in Commonwealth countries, ranking above chief inspector, and below chief superintendent.
3. The manager of a building, usually a communal residence, who is responsible for keeping the facilities functional and often collecting rent or similar payments, either as also the building's landlord or on behalf of same. Often abbreviated "super".
4. The head of a Sunday school.
5. In some Protestant churches, a clergyman having the oversight of the clergy of a district.
6. (chiefly US) A janitor.

Synonyms

• manager
• foreman
• chief, head, head man
• controller, comptroller
• overseer
• supervisor

Derived terms

• supt. (abbreviation)
• SP (abbreviation)
• chief superintendent
• detective superintendent (DSupt)
• detective chief superintendent (DCS)
• superintendential

Related terms

• superintend
• superintendency

Translations

See also

• (policing) police constable (PC), woman police constable (WPC), detective constable (DC), detective sergeant (DS), detective inspector (DI), detective chief inspector (DCI)

Adjective

superintendent (not comparable)

1. Overseeing; superintending.

Romanian

Etymology

From German Superintendent

Noun

superintendent m (plural superintenden?i)

1. superintendent

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English countreroller, from Anglo-Norman contreroulour and Middle French contreroleur (French contrôleur), from Medieval Latin contr?rotul?tor, from *contr?rotul?re (from which control). Surface analysis control +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?t???l?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?t?o?l?/
• Hyphenation: con?trol?ler
• Rhymes: -??l?(?)

Noun

controller (plural controllers)

1. One who controls something.
   • 1700, John Dryden (tr.), “The Wife of Bath, Her Tale”[1]:

     The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.

2. (electronics) Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
3. (business) A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
4. (computer hardware) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
5. (video games) A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.

   Synonym: game controller

6. (nautical) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
7. (espionage) The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
8. (linguistics) The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)
   • 2004, Paul K. Kroeger, Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach, Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN (hardback), ?ISBN (paperback), chapter 5.4, 117:

     The choice of controller is determined by the matrix verb. If, as in (30b) and (3la), the main verb does not subcategorize for an OBJ, then the controller is the matrix SUBJ. In this case the complement clause is interpreted as having the same subject as the main clause. If the main verb does take an OBJ, the controller is the matrix patient.

9. (software architecture) In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that treat input and output, forming an interface between models and views.

Synonyms

• (one who controls): administrator, chief, foreman, head, head man, organizer, overseer, superintendent, supervisor
• (one who manages financial affairs): comptroller
• (device that regulates a machine's operation): driver

Hyponyms

• (computing): fuzzy controller, memory controller
• (computing, electronics): game controller, microcontroller, nanocontroller
• (software architecture): model–view–controller

Derived terms

Related terms

• control theory

Translations

References

• controller on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English controller.

Noun

controller c (singular definite controlleren, plural indefinite controllere or controllers)

1. (business) A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government, a comptroller, a controller.
2. (computing) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer, a controller.

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English controller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?n?tr?.l?r/
• Hyphenation: con?trol?ler
• Rhymes: -?l?r

Noun

controller m (plural controllers, diminutive controllertje n)

1. (video games) controller
2. (business) controller (a person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government)