check
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: chĕk
ipa: /t͡ʃɛk/
ipa: [t͡ʃʰɛk̚]
homophone: cheque
homophone: Czech
rhymes: -ɛk
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Etymology: From Middle English chekken, partly from Old French eschequier and partly from the noun (see above).
Senses: examples: text: Check the oil in your car once a month.
text: Check whether this page has a watermark.
glosses: To inspect; to examine.
glosses: To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
examples: text: Check the items on the list that interest you.
text: Check the correct answer to each question.
synonyms: word: check off
word: tick
word: tick off
word: cross off
word: strike off
antonyms: uncheck
glosses: To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).
raw_tags: used with "off"
examples: text: Check your enthusiasm during a negotiation.
text: c. 1775–1780, Edmund Burke, letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol
so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression
text: She was about to retort but something checked the words on her tongue.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: curtail
word: restrain
word: behedge
word: guard
word: bind
word: chasten
word: check
word: contain
word: vanquish
word: cork
word: curb
word: bury
word: curtail
word: dampen
word: hamshackle
word: hold back
word: hold down
word: limit
word: repress
word: restrain
word: restrict
word: shackle
word: stay
word: stifle
word: stop
word: straiten
word: subdue
word: suppress
word: throttle
word: underbring
word: withhold
word: withstrain
glosses: To control, limit, or halt.
glosses: To scold or rebuke someone.
examples: text: Check your data against known values.
glosses: To verify or compare with a source of information.
examples: text: Check your hat and coat at the door.
glosses: To leave in safekeeping.
examples: text: Check your bags at the ticket counter before the flight.
glosses: To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
examples: text: He checked the ball and then proceeded to perform a perfect layup.
text: That basket doesn't count—you forgot to check!
qualifier: street basketball
glosses: To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
examples: text: The hockey player checked the defenceman to obtain the puck.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: tackle
trap
attack
glosses: To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
examples: text: Tom didn't think he could win, so he checked.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To announce that one is remaining in a hand without betting.
examples: text: After I checked my opponent with a pawn, he resigned immediately.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
examples: text: The good king, his master, will check him for it.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
glosses: To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
examples: text: The sun checks timber.
glosses: To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
examples: text: The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, either is disabled for the future, or else checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.
ref: a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC:
glosses: To make a stop; to pause.
raw_tags: with at
examples: text: For if it [Loue] checke once with businesse, it troubleth Mens fortunes.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Love”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To clash or interfere.
examples: text: It [his presence] checks too strong upon me.
ref: 1677 (first performance), John Dryden, All for Love: Or, The World Well Lost. A Tragedy, […], [London]: […] Tho[mas] Newcomb, for Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: To act as a curb or restraint.
examples: text: And like the haggard, check at every feather
 That comes before his eye.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
examples: text: Didn’t remember that at all. But it sure checks!
ref: 2024 March 19, @Appelmea, Twitter:
glosses: To check out, make sense or prove to be the case after verification or interrogation.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb check
word: A check
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word: backcheck
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word: background check
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word: baggage check
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word: B check
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word: bed-check
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word: blank check
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word: blank check company
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word: blue check
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word: blue check mark
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word: body-check
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word: bounced check
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word: brake check
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word: buttcheck
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word: C check
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word: certified check
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word: checkability
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word: checkable
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word: check against
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word: check all the boxes
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word: check and balance
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word: check and mate
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word: check at the door
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word: checkbook
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word: check box
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word: check-call
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word: check casher
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word: check clerk
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word: check cop
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word: check digit
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word: checked baggage
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word: checkee
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word: checker
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word: checkered
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word: checkers
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word: check-fold
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word: check hook
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word: check in
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word: check-in
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word: checking
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word: checking account
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word: check into
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word: check in with oneself
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word: check is in the mail
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word: check it out
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word: check key
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word: checklist
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word: check mark
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word: checkmate
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word: check nut
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word: check off
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word: check on
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word: check one's eyelids for leaks
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word: checkout
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word: check out
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word: check-out time
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word: check over
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word: check-rail
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word: check rail
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word: check-raise
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word: check-rein
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word: check scale
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word: check sheet
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word: check side
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word: check swing
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word: check-swing
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word: check-taker
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word: check the math
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word: check through
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word: check-up
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word: check up
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word: checkup
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word: check up on
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word: check upstairs
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word: check valve
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word: check viewer
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word: check weigher
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word: check your privilege
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word: check yourself before you wreck yourself
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word: coat check
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word: countercheck
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word: cross check
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word: cross-check
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word: cup check
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word: cyclic redundancy check
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word: D check
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word: desk check
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word: double-check
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word: dustbin check
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word: e-check
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word: fact check
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word: fact-check
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word: forecheck
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word: gate check
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word: gate-check
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word: gut-check
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word: heart check
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word: hip check
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word: in check
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word: last I checked
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word: last time I checked
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word: mic-check
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word: mischeck
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word: namecheck
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word: need one's eyes checked
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word: overcheck
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word: pantry check
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word: pass check
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word: pay check
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word: perimeter check
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word: perpetual check
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word: precheck
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word: Prince of Wales check
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word: recheck
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word: return check
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word: rubber check
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word: sanity check
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word: smog check
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word: soundcheck
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word: speed check
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word: spell-check
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word: spell check
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word: spot check
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word: spot-check
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word: swing check valve
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word: take check
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word: triple check
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word: type-check
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word: unch
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word: unchecked
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word: vibe check
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word: welfare check
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word: wellness check
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word: wet check