Word Finder - checks

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A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.

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An inspection or examination.

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

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A control; a limit or stop.

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The castle moat should hold the enemy in check.

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

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Place a check by the things you have done.

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• checkmark
• tick

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

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

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• cheque

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A bill, particularly in a restaurant.

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

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• bill
• cheque

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

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The hockey player gave a good hard check to obtain the puck.

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A token used instead of cash in gaming machines, or in gambling generally.

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A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.

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A mark, certificate or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.

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a check given for baggage

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The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.

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A small chink or crack.

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To inspect; to examine.

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Check the oil in your car once a month.

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To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).

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(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).

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Check off the items that you've checked (inspected).

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• check off
• cross off
• strike off
• tick
• tick off

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To control, limit, or halt.

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Check your enthusiasm during a negotiation.

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• curtail
• restrain

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To verify or compare with a source of information.

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Check your data against known values.

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To leave in safekeeping.

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Check your hat and coat at the door.

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To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.

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Check your bags at the ticket counter before the flight.

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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.

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He checked the ball and then proceeded to perform a perfect layup.

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To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.

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The hockey player checked the defenceman to obtain the puck.

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• attack
• tackle
• trap

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To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.

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Tom didn't think he could win, so he checked.

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To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.

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To chide, rebuke, or reprove.

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To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.

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To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.

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To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.

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The sun checks timber.

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To make a stop; to pause; with at.

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To clash or interfere.

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To act as a curb or restraint.

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To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.

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(usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.

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The tablecloth had red and white checks.

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Any fabric woven with such a pattern.

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To mark with a check pattern.

With these powers should come enormous checks and balances on their use.

He paused, "You just have to sign the checks."

Despite of all checks and disasters he remained active, self-confident and ambitious, and, since he had acquired a complete control over his father, he had ample opportunity to mismanage the political and military affairs of England.

Landon was waiting with the dealers for their mind checks.

The chief feature in this was an idea concerning which he and Mrs Mill often deliberated - the necessity of providing checks against uneducated democracy.

The Japanese victories resulted for Korea in the solemn renunciation of Chinese suzerainty by the Korean king, the substitution of Japanese for Chinese influence, the introduction of many important reforms under Japanese advisers, and of checks on the absolutism of the throne.

Indeed, along with other serious checks in Spain, which involved the conquest of that land, it cut through the wide meshes of his policy both in Levantine, Central European and commercial affairs.

In the 18th and early part of the 19th century Penrith manufactured checks, linen cloth and ginghams, but the introduction of machinery put an end to this industry, only the making of rag carpets surviving.

Various climatic factors may cause temporary checks, but the growing and maturing period is sufficiently long to allow the plants to overcome these disturbances.

In the tropics the essential requirements are very similar, but there the dry season checks production in much the same way as do the frosts in temperate climates.

By cancelling the political power of the Areopagus and multiplying the functions of the popular law-courts, Ephialtes abolished the last checks upon the sovereignty of the commons.

He was beloved by all the preachers, and his Checks to Antinomianism show that he was a courteous controversialist.

The second and third implements of analysis above cited are of the nature of cautions or checks.

The virulent controversy between Arminian and Calvinistic Methodists produced as its ablest outcome Fletcher's Checks to Antinomianism (1771-1775).

The chief of them, written against Calvinism, are Five Checks to Antinomianism, Scripture Scales to weigh the Gold of Gospel Truth, and the Portrait of St Paul.

These evidences of civilization did not make their appearance until the first great era of Japanese reform, the Taika period (645650), when stations were established along the principal highways, provision was made of post-horses, and a system of bells and checks was devised for distinguishing official carriers.

Resuming operations in 354, Philip, in spite of temporary checks at the hands of Chares, and the spasmodic opposition of a VII.

But although the Mahommedan religion from the very commencement sustained checks, it nevertheless made its weight felt upon the independent states of Turkestan to the north and east, and thus acquired a steadily growing influence.

It is a system amply provided with checks and balances; it recognizes and enforces the principle of popular sovereignty, while subjecting that principle to many checks in practice; and it is well calculated to maintain unchanged the relation of its component parts each to the other.

Having been bred in Castile, where the royal authority was, at least in theory, absolute, he showed himself impatient under the checks imposed on him by the fueros, the chartered rights of Aragon and Catalonia.

On the other hand the political consolidation of the various continental Teutonic peoples (apart from the Danes) in the 8th century led to the gradual recovery of eastern Germany together with Lower Austria and the greater part of Styria and Carinthia, though Bohemia, Moravia and the basins of the Vistula and the Warthe have always remained mainly Slavonic. In the British Isles the Teutonic element, in spite of temporary checks, eventually became dominant everywhere.

Apart from the large class of brocaded cloths made in Jacquard looms there are innumerable simpler kinds, including stripes and checks of various descriptions, such as Swiss, Cord, Satin, Doriah stripes, &c. Mercerized cloths are of many kinds, as the mercerizing process can be applied to almost anything.

Formerly Ulverston had a considerable trade in linens, checks and ginghams, but it is now dependent on large iron and steel works, chemical works, breweries, tan-yards, and hardware, paper, and wooden hoop manufactories.

There is reason to think, however, that it is the want of soil rather than climatal conditions that checks the upward extension of the alpine flora.

Moreover, there is a generally recognised quasi-antagonism between the vegetative and reproductive processes, so that, other things being equal, anything that checks the one helps forward the other.

In its original form he had spoken of no checks to population but those which came under the head either of vice or of misery.

It is only when such obvious truths are clothed in the technical terminology of "positive" and "preventive checks" that they appear novel and profound; and yet they appear to contain the whole message of Malthus to mankind.

Gradually the officials, high and low, subjected to an elaborate system of checks, refused to take any responsibility whatever; and the minutest administrative questions were handed up, through all the stages of the bureaucratic hierarchy, to be shelved and forgotten in the imperial cabinet.

Yet Duncan Forbes of Culloden, president of the Court of Session, after the outbreak of the war with Spain, reported amazing scarcity of money in the country, and strenuously advised legislative checks on the taste for tea, which naturally diminished the profits of the excise on more generous beverages.

About the middle of the 17th century it became famous for its "checks," which were afterwards superseded by a similar linen-and-cotton fabric known as "Blackburn greys."

In the cough of phthisis minute doses are of service, but in this particular disease morphine is frequently better replaced by codeine or by heroin, which checks irritable coughs without the narcotism following upon the administration of morphine.

The king, with the checks upon his absolutism removed, reverted to the worst traditions of his dynasty, and the control and arrangements of finance were upset by Russia.

Bossuet and the old-fashioned divines had believed in an elaborate system of checks and balances - popes, councils, bishops, temporal sovereigns each limiting and controlling the other - just as Montesquieu and Alexander Hamilton had believed in a careful separation of the executive from the legislative power.

Napoleon swept away the checks and balances, and made the will of a single man the one and only sanction of government.

In_ like manner de Maistre proposed to sweep away the ecclesiastical checks and balances, and vest the whole of the Church's authority in the pope.

It is a powerful local haemostatic, but it only checks haemorrhage when brought directly in contact with the bleeding point.

Jerusalem and therefore that his teaching must be open to the checks and tests of that orthodox primitive standard which they themselves claimed to embody.

The regular police organization, which preserves order, checks evil-doing, and "runs in" malefactors, falls naturally and broadly into two grand divisions, the administrative and the active, the police "in the office" and the police "out of doors."

Custom and economic requirements produced checks on the sway of the masters which proved effectual even when legal protection was insufficient.

This expensive practice was abolished; various checks were placed upon legislative extravagance, and upon financial, special and local legislation generally; and among reform provisions, common enough to-day, but uncommon in 1875, were those forbidding the General Assembly to make irrevocable grants of special privileges and immunities; requiring finance officials of the state to clear their accounts precedent to further eligibility to public office; preventing private gain to state officials through the deposit of public moneys in banks, or otherwise; and permitting the governor to veto specific items in general appropriation bills.

In the same year (1157) Henry made an expedition into North Wales, and forced its prince Owen to become his vassal, not without some fighting, in which the English army received several sharp checks at the commencement of the campaign.

But the council refused to let him assume the full powers of a regent, and bound him with many checks and restrictions, because they were well aware of his character.

Unlike his predecessor, the next duke, John Frederick (1582-1628), was not allowed to become an absolute ruler, but was forced to recognize the checks on his power.

On his return to Ireland, Sussex was outmatched both in war and diplomacy; the loyal chiefs were crushed one by one; and the English suffered checks of which the moral effect was ruinous.

In his reign and those of his immediate successors the Cortes flourished, although it failed to establish checks on the absolute power of the king.

In letters of 1779-1780' he correctly diagnoses the ills of the Confederation, and suggests with admirable prescience the necessity of centralization in its governmental powers; he was, indeed, one of the first, if not to conceive, at least to suggest adequate checks on the anarchic tendencies of the time.

Urinalysis, blood pressure and weight checks, fundal height measurement and fetal heart auscultation are performed routinely at each office visit.

Please note that the College only accepts checks drawn on a UK clearing bank, sterling drafts or postal orders.

Method summary Boolean equals (Object obj) Checks two UnresolvedPermission objects for equality.

Firefighters have targeted two post offices in Congleton (on pension day) recently canvassing for the free Home Fire Safety Checks.