Checkname

• 1

  A surname.

checknoun詞源 1/t͡ʃɛk/

• 1

  An inspection or examination.

  • I don't know if she will be there, but it's worth a check.
• 2

  A control; a limit or stop.

  • checks and balances
  • The castle moat should hold the enemy in check.
• 3

  board-gameschessgamesA situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.

• 4

  A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator.

  • 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.
• 5

  An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.

  • I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a check for the amount.
• 6

  A bill, particularly in a restaurant.

  • I summoned the waiter, paid the check, and hurried to leave.
• 7

  A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.

  • 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.
• 8

  A token used instead of cash in various contexts, including sign-out of company property or collection of rations (dated), in gaming machines, or in gambling generally.

  • a brass check
  • […]the statute prohibits a machine which dispenses checks or tokens for replay[…]

checkverb詞源 2/t͡ʃɛk/

• 1

  To inspect; to examine.

  • Check the oil in your car once a month.
  • 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).

• 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).

  • Check the items on the list that interest you.
  • Check the correct answer to each question.
• 4

  To control, limit, or halt.

  • 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
• 5

  informalTo scold or rebuke someone.

• 6

  To verify or compare with a source of information.

  • Check your data against known values.
• 7

  To leave in safekeeping.

  • Check your hat and coat at the door.
• 8

  To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.

  • Check your bags at the ticket counter before the flight.

checkintj詞源 2/t͡ʃɛk/

• 1

  An expression showing that a requirement has been satisfied.

  • Keys? Check. Batteries? Check. We are all ready to go!
• 2

  An expression that indicates that the speaker wishes to pay the bill (e.g. in a restaurant).

checknoun詞源 3/t͡ʃɛk/

• 1

  businessmanufacturingtextilesA pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.

  • 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.
• 2

  Any fabric woven with such a pattern.

checkverb詞源 3/t͡ʃɛk/

• 1

  To mark with a check pattern.

checkadj詞源 3/t͡ʃɛk/

• 1

  raregovernmentheraldryhobbiesChecky, i.e. chequy.

  • 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.

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