check /chek/

1. To verify, often by comparison
2. To bring to a stop
3. To restrain or hinder
4. To rebuke
5. To punch (eg a ticket)
6. To tick (N American)
7. To nip, pinch, crush, as by biting or shutting (also chack; Scot)
8. To deposit or receive in exchange for a check
9. To send (baggage) on a passenger's ticket (N American)
10. In chess, to place in check
11. To mark with a pattern of crossing lines

1. To make investigations
2. To come to a stop
3. To forsake the quarry for some other bird (with at; falconry)
4. To decline the option of opening the betting (poker)

1. A means of verification or testing, eg to evaluate the standard of something
2. Anything that checks
3. A sudden stop, repulse or rebuff
4. In chess, a position when a player's king is exposed to attack and so must be protected or moved
5. In certain games, a stopping of an opposing player's forward progress
6. Restraint
7. Control
8. A rebuke, a reprimand (obsolete)
9. A mark put against items in a list
10. A tick (N American)
11. An order to transfer money (usu written cheque except US)
12. Any token or ticket used as security, to indicate ownership, etc, a counterfoil
13. A ticket or token, given to show that a person has paid, eg for admission (see also raincheck under rain¹)
14. A restaurant bill
15. A counter used in games at cards (hence pass in one's checks to die)
16. A pattern of cross lines forming small squares, as in a chessboard
17. Any fabric woven with such a pattern
18. A mechanism that holds a piano hammer after striking
19. A small crack in veneer, timber, etc

Divided into small squares by crossing lines

checkˈable adjective

checked adjective

Having a check pattern

checkˈer noun

1. Someone who hinders, rebukes or scrutinizes
2. A cashier
3. A cloakroom attendant (N American)
4. (in pl; N American) the game of draughts

checkˈy or cheˈquy adjective (heraldry)

Chequered

check action noun

Piano action with checks

check box noun (computing)

A square on a screen on which the user can click the mouse to activate a particular feature

checkˈbook noun (N American)

A chequebook

checkˈclerk noun

A clerk who checks accounts, etc

check digit noun (computing)

A redundant bit in a stored word, used in a self-checking procedure such as a parity check

checked square noun

A square in a crossword that belongs to the solution of two clues

checkˈerboard noun

A checked board on which checkers or draughts is played

checkˈ-in see check in below.

checking account noun (N American)

A current account

checkˈ-key noun

A latch-key

checkˈlist noun

1. A list for verification purposes
2. A comprehensive list
3. An inventory

checkmate noun see separate entry.

checkˈ-off see check off below.

checkˈout noun

1. The cash desk where goods bought in a supermarket, etc are paid for
2. The act of checking out (see below)

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