check
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Is check a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of check?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
2. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator.Examples: "Norton had made a neat, lawyerly check beside each of the items he and Billy had picked up—half a dozen or so, including the milk and a six-pack of Coke."Synonyms: tick, checkmarkUS
3. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.Examples: "I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a check for the amount."Synonyms: chequeUS
4. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.Examples: "I summoned the waiter, paid the check, and hurried to leave."Synonyms: bill, chequeUS
5. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.Examples: "The hockey player gave a good hard check to obtain the puck."; "Liverpool had been reduced to 10 men in the 88th minute, Ibrahima Konaté collecting a second yellow card for a check on Kai Havertz."
6. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds. [from 15th c.]
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To inspect; to examine.Examples: "Check the oil in your car once a month."; "Check whether this page has a watermark."transitive
2. (transitive) To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).transitive
3. (transitive, US, often used with "off") 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).Examples: "Check the items on the list that interest you."; "Check the correct answer to each question."Synonyms: check off, tick, tick off, cross off, strike offAntonyms: uncheckUSoftentransitive
4. (transitive) To control, limit, or halt.Examples: "Check your enthusiasm during a negotiation."; "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"; "She was about to retort but something checked the words on her tongue."Synonyms: curtail, restrain, behedge, guard, bind, chasten, check, containtransitive
5. (informal, transitive) To scold or rebuke someone.informaltransitive
6. (transitive) To verify or compare with a source of information.Examples: "Check your data against known values."transitive
noun (English)
1. (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.Examples: "The tablecloth had red and white checks."; "One of her female followers, had made a very elegant piece of check. The Friend, being at her house, on a visit, the lady shewed the check to her, and as evidence of devotion to her leader, proposed presenting her with a pattern off the piece for her own use."
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To mark with a check pattern.transitive
adj (English)
1. (heraldry, rare, possibly only as a printing error) Checky, i.e. chequy.Examples: "CHECKY, [...] Checky, according to Colombiere, is one of the most noble and ancient figures [...] Checky is always composed of metal, and colour. [...] So that if that be or, and the next gules, the house or family is said to bear check, or, and gules. When the whole shield is not chequered , but only the chief, a bend, cross, or the like, the number of ranges should be expressed."; "He died about 1270; and his son, Sir Robert, assisted the brave Sir William Wallace, and died in 1800. BOYD ARMS. Azure, a fesse check, argent et gules."not-comparablepossiblyrare
Definition source: Wiktionary