Word: check Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English chekken, partly from Old French eschequier and partly from the noun (see above). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɛk/, [t͡ʃʰɛk̚] 1. To inspect; to examine. Labels: transitive Example: Check the oil in your car once a month. Example: Check whether this page has a watermark. 2. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit). Labels: transitive 3. 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). Labels: US, often, transitive Example: Check the items on the list that interest you. Example: Check the correct answer to each question. 4. To control, limit, or halt. Labels: transitive Example: Check your enthusiasm during a negotiation. Example: 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 5. To scold or rebuke someone. Labels: informal, transitive 6. To verify or compare with a source of information. Labels: transitive Example: Check your data against known values. 7. To leave in safekeeping. Labels: transitive Example: Check your hat and coat at the door. 8. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping. Labels: transitive Example: Check your bags at the ticket counter before the flight. 9. 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. Labels: transitive Example: He checked the ball and then proceeded to perform a perfect layup. Example: That basket doesn't count—you forgot to check! 10. To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck. Labels: transitive Example: The hockey player checked the defenceman to obtain the puck. 11. To announce that one is remaining in a hand without betting. Labels: transitive Example: Tom didn't think he could win, so he checked. 12. To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check. Labels: transitive Example: After I checked my opponent with a pawn, he resigned immediately. 13. To chide, rebuke, or reprove. Labels: transitive Example: The good king, his master, will check him for it. 14. To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended. 15. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc. 16. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack. Labels: transitive Example: The sun checks timber. 17. To make a stop; to pause. Labels: intransitive Example: 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. 18. To clash or interfere. Labels: obsolete Example: For if it [Loue] checke once with businesse, it troubleth Mens fortunes. 19. To act as a curb or restraint. Example: It [his presence] checks too strong upon me. 20. To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds. Example: And like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. 21. To check out, make sense or prove to be the case after verification or interrogation. Labels: intransitive Example: Didn’t remember that at all. But it sure checks!