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check
  1. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
  2. An inspection or examination.
  3. A control; a limit or stop.
  4. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK).
  5. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada).
  6. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
  7. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
  8. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines.
  9. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
  10. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
  11. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
  12. Synonyms:
  13. Examples:
    1. “A check has revealed a significant projected overspend over the next two years.”
      “Has natural photography really put a check on our airbrushed ideals of beauty?”
      “We gasped when the check arrived as we did not anticipate that the meal would cost so much.”
checkers
  1. (singular) A game for two players played on a chessboard; the players have 12 pieces each, and the object is to capture all the opponent’s pieces by jumping over them. Other European varieties have larger boards and more playing pieces.
  2. (plural) the playing pieces in the game of checkers.
  3. Synonyms:
checkerboard
  1. A pattern of squares of alternating colours.
  2. A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 64 squares, used to play chess and draughts / checkers.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “I laid out the checkerboard on the table, the alternating red and black squares forming a visually pleasing pattern.”
checkwriter
  1. One who writes checks.
  2. A machine that writes on preprinted checks in such a way as to reduce fraudulent alteration of the check.
checkerwork
  1. Work consisting of or showing checkers, varied alternately by colour or material.
  2. (figuratively) Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.
  3. Examples:
    1. “On his wise shoulders through the checkerwork of leaves the sun flung spangles, dancing coins.”
      “Masses of flue-dust had clogged the holes in the checkerwork and reduced its power for holding heat.”
      “My first sensation, as I stepped off the ladder to the checkerwork inside the stove, was relief.”
checker
  1. One who checks something.
  2. The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “I hired a checker to inspect the merchandise for any quality defects before it was shipped out.”
checking
checkerspot
  1. Any of a group of butterflies of the subfamily Nymphalinae whose wings bear a checkered, spotted pattern.
  2. Examples:
    1. “After a Harris' checkerspot emerges from its chrysalis, it feeds on nectar from a wide variety of flowers.”
      “The acquisitions will add to the adjacent conservation areas and are essential to recovery of the Quino checkerspot butterfly.”
      “Residential and commercial development, invasive non-native plants, and air pollution threaten the survival of the bay checkerspot butterfly.”
checker
checkwork
  1. Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.
check
  1. (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A check has revealed a significant projected overspend over the next two years.”
      “Has natural photography really put a check on our airbrushed ideals of beauty?”
      “We gasped when the check arrived as we did not anticipate that the meal would cost so much.”
checker
checkerboardedness
  1. The presence, in a matrix, of a checkerboard pattern
checkboard
  1. Alternative form of checkerboard (design)
checkbook
  1. Alternative form of chequebook
  2. Examples:
    1. “I'm sure those dolts down in accounting feel the same way about what you do with your checkbook.”
      “Maybe meeting a mortgage and balancing a checkbook doesn't make for good theater.”
      “Joe took out his checkbook and wrote out the check and handed it to the worker.”
checkering
  1. Alternative form of chequering
checkability
  1. The quality of being checkable.
checkers
checkerboards
  1. plural of checkerboard
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It has tables with checkerboards, cards and other table games as well as two large sofas.”
      “Some of the tiled tabletops have built-in checkerboards, and on a recent evening I watched a visiting family bent intently over a game.”
      “First are simple repetitive patterns, such as all white cells or all black cells, or alternation in stripes and checkerboards.”
checkwriters
  1. plural of checkwriter
checkerspots
  1. plural of checkerspot
checkerworks
  1. plural of checkerwork
checkboards
  1. plural of checkboard
checkerings
  1. plural of checkering
checkbooks
  1. plural of checkbook
checkings
checks
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