checking
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Definitions ofchecking
- To inspect; to examine.
Example: "Check the oil in your car once a month."
- To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
- (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).
Synonyms: "check off", "cross off", "strike off", tick, "tick off"
Example: "Check off the items that you've checked (inspected)."
- To control, limit, or halt.
Example: "Check your enthusiasm during a negotiation."
- To verify or compare with a source of information.
Example: "Check your data against known values."
- To leave in safekeeping.
Example: "Check your hat and coat at the door."
- To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
Example: "Check your bags at the ticket counter before the flight."
- 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.
Example: "He checked the ball and then proceeded to perform a perfect layup."
- To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
Example: "The hockey player checked the defenceman to obtain the puck."
- To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
Example: "Tom didn't think he could win, so he checked."
- To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
- To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
- To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
- To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
- To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
Example: "The sun checks timber."
- To make a stop; to pause; with at.
- To clash or interfere.
- To act as a curb or restraint.
- To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
- To mark with a check pattern.
- The act of physically keeping an opposing player in check.
- A checking account.
Example: "Withdraw $5000 from checking and put it into savings."
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