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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
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tally
English
Etymology 1
Clipping of tallyho.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tæli/
- Hyphenation: tal?ly
- Rhymes: -æli
Interjection
tally
- (radio, aviation) Target sighted.
- (Air Traffic Control): Speedbird 123, New York, traffic at two o’clock, seven miles, a Boeing 737, west-bound, at 4000 feet.
- (Pilot): New York, Speedbird 123, tally.
Usage notes
In aviation radio usage, more common than original tallyho. In civilian aviation usage, the official term for “traffic sighted” is “traffic in sight”.
Synonyms
- (target sighted): tallyho
Etymology 2
From Middle English talie, from Anglo-Norman tallie and Old French taille (“notch in a piece of wood signifying a debt”), from Medieval Latin tallia, from Latin talea (“a cutting, rod, stick”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tæli/
- Hyphenation: tal?ly
- Rhymes: -æli
Noun
tally (plural tallies)
- Abbreviation of tally stick.
- (by extension) One of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
- (by extension) Any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially one kept in duplicate.
- One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
- c. 1690, John Dryden, Don Sebastian, Act V, scene 1:
- So paired, so suited in their minds and persons,
- That they were framed the tallies for each other.
- c. 1690, John Dryden, Don Sebastian, Act V, scene 1:
- A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.
- A tally shop.
- A ribbon on a sailor's cap bearing the name of the ship or the (part of) the navy to which they belong.
- (informal, regional, dated) A state of cohabitation, living with another individual in an intimate relationship outside of marriage.
Translations
See also
- Five-bar gate tally
Etymology 3
From Middle English talien, from the noun (see above). Also from Medieval Latin taliare
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tæli/
- Hyphenation: tal?ly
- Rhymes: -æli
Verb
tally (third-person singular simple present tallies, present participle tallying, simple past and past participle tallied)
- (transitive) To count something.
- (transitive) To record something by making marks.
- (transitive) To make things correspond or agree with each other.
- (intransitive) To keep score.
- (intransitive) To correspond or agree.
- (nautical) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
Synonyms
- (count something): enumerate, number; see also Thesaurus:count
Derived terms
- tally up
Translations
Etymology 4
From Middle English tally, talliche, equivalent to tall +? -ly.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?li/, /?t?l.li/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /?t?li/, /?t?l.li/
- Hyphenation: tally
Adverb
tally (comparative more tally, superlative most tally)
- (obsolete) In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.
- c. 1612, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Captain, Act II, scene ii:
- And you, Lodovick, / That stand so tally on your reputation, / You shall be he shall speak it.
- c. 1612, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Captain, Act II, scene ii:
Further reading
- tally in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- tally at OneLook Dictionary Search
References
Middle English
Alternative forms
- talliche, tawly
Etymology
tal (“adj”) +? -ly
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tali?/
Adverb
tally
- properly, suitably, becomingly
Descendants
- English: tally (obsolete)
- Yola: taullee
References
- “tall?, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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