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check
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ch?k, IPA(key): /t???k/
- Rhymes: -?k
- Homophones: cheque, Czech
Etymology 1
From Middle English chek, chekke, borrowed from Old French eschek, eschec, eschac, from Medieval Latin scaccus, borrowed from Arabic ????? (š?h, “king or check at chess, shah”), borrowed from Persian ???? (šâh, “king”), from Middle Persian ????????????????? (mlk? /š?h/), from Old Persian ???? (XŠ /xš?ya?iya/, “king”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáyati (“he rules, he has power over”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (“to gain power over, gain control over”).
All English senses developed from the chess sense. Compare Saterland Frisian Schak, Schach, Dutch schaak, German Schach, Danish skak, Swedish schack, Icelandic skák, French échec, Italian scacco. See chess and shah (“king of Persia or Iran”).
Noun
check (plural checks)
- (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece. [from 14th c.]
- An inspection or examination.
- A control; a limit or stop.
- (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ?) used as an indicator.
- Synonyms: (UK) tick, checkmark
- 1980, Stephen King, The Mist
- 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.
- (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
- Synonym: (UK, Canada) cheque
- (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
- Synonyms: bill, (Canada) cheque
- (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
- A token used instead of cash in gaming machines, or in gambling generally.
- 1963, American law reports annotated: second series, volume 89
- […] the statute prohibits a machine which dispenses checks or tokens for replay […]
- 1963, American law reports annotated: second series, volume 89
- A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
- A mark, certificate, or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
- (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds. [from 15th c.]
- A small chink or crack.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
References
- check on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English chekken, partly from Old French eschequier and partly from the noun (see above).
Verb
check (third-person singular simple present checks, present participle checking, simple past and past participle checked)
- To inspect; to examine.
- To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
- (US, 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, (UK) tick, (UK) tick off, cross off, strike off
- Antonym: uncheck
- To control, limit, or halt.
- Synonyms: curtail, restrain; see also Thesaurus:curb
- 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
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13
- She was about to retort but something checked the words on her tongue.
- To verify or compare with a source of information.
- To leave in safekeeping.
- To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
- (street basketball) 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.
- (sports) To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
- Synonyms: tackle, trap, attack
- (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
- (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
- To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
- (nautical) 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.
- To make a stop; to pause; with at.
- The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, either is disabled for the future, or else checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.
- (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- To act as a curb or restraint.
- 1677, John Dryden, All for Love
- It [his presence] checks too strong upon me.
- 1677, John Dryden, All for Love
- (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
Derived terms
- See below
Descendants
- ? Gulf Arabic: ???? (??yy?k)
- ? Hijazi Arabic: ??????? (šayyak)
- ? Finnish: tsekata
- ? German: checken
- ? Portuguese: checar
- ? Russian: ??????? (?ékat?)
- ? Russian: ???????? (?éknut?)
- ? Russian: ?????????? (pro?ékat?)
- ? Spanish: chequear
Translations
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 3
By shortening from chequer, from Old French eschequier (“chessboard”), from Medieval Latin scaccarium, ultimately from the same Persian root as above.
Noun
check (plural checks)
- (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
- 1819, Charles Mowry, in the Downington Pennsylvania American Republican, quoted in Herbery Wisbey, Pioneer Prophetess: Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend:
- 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.
- 1819, Charles Mowry, in the Downington Pennsylvania American Republican, quoted in Herbery Wisbey, Pioneer Prophetess: Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend:
- Any fabric woven with such a pattern.
Translations
Verb
check (third-person singular simple present checks, present participle checking, simple past and past participle checked)
- (transitive) To mark with a check pattern.
Adjective
check (not comparable)
- (heraldry) Divided into small squares by transverse, perpendicular, and horizontal lines.
- Synonym: chequy
References
- Michael Quinion (2004) , “Cheque”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, ?ISBN
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “check”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Chinese
Etymology
Borrowed from English check.
Pronunciation
Verb
check
- (Cantonese) to check
Synonyms
- ????? (ji?nchá)
Danish
Etymology
From English cheque, check, from Old French eschek (“check (in chess)”), via Medieval Latin scaccus and Arabic ????? (š?h) from Persian ???? (šâh, “king”) (cf. also Danish skak).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?????]
Noun
check c
- cheque
Inflection
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
check
- first-person singular present indicative of checken
- imperative of checken
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??k/
Noun
check m (plural checks)
- (slang) fist bump
Spanish
Noun
check m (plural checks)
- check (mark)
Swedish
Etymology
From English check
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??k?/
- Homophones: käck, tjeck
Noun
check c
- cheque, check
Declension
References
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master
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, Geordie) IPA(key): /?m??st?/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /?mast?/
- (General American) enPR: m?s?t?r, IPA(key): /?mæst?/
- Rhymes: -??st?(?), -æst?(?)
- Hyphenation: mas?ter
Etymology 1
From Middle English maister, mayster, meister, from Old English m?ster, mæ?ster, mæ?ester, mæ?ister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *mé?h?s, (as in magnus (“great”)) + -ester/-ister (compare minister (“servant”)). Reinforced by Old French maistre, mestre from the same Latin source. Compare also Saterland Frisian Mäster (“master”), West Frisian master (“master”), Dutch meester (“master”), German Meister (“master”). Doublet of maestro and magister.
Alternative forms
- mester (dialectal), mister (dialectal)
- mastre (obsolete)
- Master
- Massa, massa, massah, masta, Mastah, mastah, mastuh (eye dialect)
Noun
master (plural masters, feminine mistress)
- Someone who has control over something or someone.
- 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides
- We are masters of the sea.
- 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides
- The owner of an animal or slave.
- (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
- Synonyms: skipper, captain
- (dated) The head of a household.
- Someone who employs others.
- An expert at something.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:skilled person
- No care is taken to improve young men in their own language, that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it.
- A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
- (dated) A schoolmaster.
- A skilled artist.
- (dated) A man or a boy; mister. See Master.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- Where there are little Ma?ters and Mi??es in a Hou?e, they are u?ually great Impediments to the Diver?ions of the Servants;
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
- Synonyms: masters, master's, (Quebec English) magistrate
- A person holding such a degree.
- The original of a document or of a recording.
- (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
- Synonyms: establishing shot, long shot
- (law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
- (engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
- Synonym: primary
- Antonyms: secondary, slave
- (freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
- (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
Hyponyms
- mistress (feminine-specific form)
Derived terms
Pages starting with “master”.
Descendants
Related terms
- mistress (feminine form of "master")
Translations
See also
- journeyman
- apprentice
Adjective
master (not comparable)
- Masterful.
- Main, principal or predominant.
- Highly skilled.
- Original.
Translations
Verb
master (third-person singular simple present masters, present participle mastering, simple past and past participle mastered)
- (intransitive) To be a master.
- (transitive) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
- Obstinacy and willful neglects must be mastered, even though it cost blows.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- Then Elzevir cried out angrily, 'Silence. Are you mad, or has the liquor mastered you? Are you Revenue-men that you dare shout and roister? or contrabandiers with the lugger in the offing, and your life in your hand. You make noise enough to wake folk in Moonfleet from their beds.'
- (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
- (transitive, obsolete) To own; to possess.
- (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
- (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
mast +? -er
Noun
master (plural masters)
- (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.
Translations
Anagrams
- 'maters, Amster, METARs, Stream, armest, armets, mastre, maters, matres, metras, ramets, ramset, remast, stream, tamers, tremas, trémas
Finnish
Noun
master
- (BDSM) (male) dom
Declension
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English master. Doublet of maître, inherited from Latin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mas.t??/
Noun
master m (plural masters)
- master's degree, master's (postgraduate degree)
- master (golf tournament)
- master, master copy
Further reading
- “master” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- trames, trémas
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch master, from English master, from Middle English maister, mayster, meister, from Old English m?ster, mæ?ster, mæ?ester, mæ?ister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *mé?h?s, (as in magnus (“great”)) + -ester/-ister (compare minister (“servant”)). Doublet of magister and mester.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?mast??r]
- Hyphenation: mas?têr
Noun
master (plural master-master, first-person possessive masterku, second-person possessive mastermu, third-person possessive masternya)
- master:
- someone who has control over something or someone.
- an expert at something.
- the original of a document or of a recording.
- (education) a master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
- Synonym: magister
Affixed terms
Compounds
Further reading
- “master” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
master m or f
- indefinite plural of mast
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From English master. Doublet of magister.
Noun
master m (definite singular masteren, indefinite plural masterar, definite plural masterane)
- a master's degree
- a master's thesis
- a person that has a master's degree
- original document or recording
Etymology 2
Noun
master f (definite singular mastra or mastri, indefinite plural mastrer, definite plural mastrene)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by mast
Etymology 3
Noun
master f
- indefinite plural of mast
References
- “master” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Frisian
Alternative forms
- m?ster
- m?stere, m?stere
Etymology
Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *maester, from Latin magister. Cognates include Old English mæ?ester and Old Saxon m?star.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ma?ster/
Noun
m?ster m
- master
- leader
- commissioner
Inflection
Descendants
- Saterland Frisian: Mäster
- West Frisian: master
Derived terms
- M?ster
References
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 28
Swedish
Noun
master
- indefinite plural of mast
Anagrams
- smarte, smetar
West Frisian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
master c (plural masters, diminutive masterke)
- master
Derived terms
- boargemaster
Further reading
- “master”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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