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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?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)

  1. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece. [from 14th c.]
  2. An inspection or examination.
  3. A control; a limit or stop.
  4. (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.
  5. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
    Synonym: (UK, Canada) cheque
  6. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
    Synonyms: bill, (Canada) cheque
  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, 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 []
  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. [from 15th c.]
  12. 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)

  1. To inspect; to examine.
  2. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
  3. (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
  4. 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.
  5. To verify or compare with a source of information.
  6. To leave in safekeeping.
  7. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
  8. (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.
  9. (sports) To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
    Synonyms: tackle, trap, attack
  10. (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
  11. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
  12. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
  13. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
  14. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
  15. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
  16. 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.
  17. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
  18. To act as a curb or restraint.
    • 1677, John Dryden, All for Love
      It [his presence] checks too strong upon me.
  19. (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
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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)

  1. (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.
  2. 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)

  1. (transitive) To mark with a check pattern.

Adjective

check (not comparable)

  1. (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

  1. (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

  1. cheque

Inflection


Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

check

  1. first-person singular present indicative of checken
  2. imperative of checken

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t??k/

Noun

check m (plural checks)

  1. (slang) fist bump

Spanish

Noun

check m (plural checks)

  1. check (mark)

Swedish

Etymology

From English check

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??k?/
  • Homophones: käck, tjeck

Noun

check c

  1. cheque, check

Declension

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slacken

English

Etymology

From Middle English slakenen, equivalent to slack +? -en.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?slæ.k?n/
  • Rhymes: -æk?n

Verb

slacken (third-person singular simple present slackens, present participle slackening, simple past and past participle slackened)

  1. (intransitive) To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack.
    The pace slackened.
    • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:
      He seemed tired, and the Rat let him rest unquestioned, understanding something of what was in his thoughts; knowing, too, the value all animals attach at times to mere silent companionship, when the weary muscles slacken and the mind marks time.
  2. (transitive) To make slack, less taut, or less intense.
    • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I:
      During this interlude, Warwick, though he had slackened his pace measurably, had so nearly closed the gap between himself and them as to hear the old woman say, with the dulcet negro intonation: []
    • 1986, Mari Sandoz, The Horsecatcher:
      Elk slackened the rope so he could walk farther away, and together they went awkwardly up the trail toward the grassy little flat...
  3. To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake.
    to slacken lime

Related terms

  • slack
  • slacker

Translations

Anagrams

  • cankles, snackle

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