different between cheque vs eft

English

Etymology

Influenced by exchequer, from Old French eschequier. See further etymology at check.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ch?k, IPA^(key): /t??k/
• Rhymes: -?k
• Homophones: check, Czech

Alternative forms

• check (US)

Noun

cheque (plural cheques)

1. (Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Britain) A draft directing a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.

   I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a cheque for the amount.

   • 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, 1920, page 62,

     They do not, however, all deal with the same banker, and when A gives a cheque to B, B usually pays it not into the same but into some other bank.

   • 1999, Sam Seunarine, Office Procedures for the Caribbean, 2nd edition, reprinted 2001, page 126,

     Sometimes abbreviations are used (which would be explained on the statement) and only the last three figures of the cheque number may be given. ‘Sundries’ are cash or cheques paid into the account.

   • 2007, Eric Tyson, Tony Martin, Personal Finance for Canadians for Dummies, unnumbered page,

     You can avoid dealing with paper cheques — written or printed — by paying your bills online.

   • 2009, R. Rajesh, T. Sivagnanasithi, Banking Theory Law & Practice, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, page 206,

     The daily cheque clearings began around 1770 when bank clerks met at the Five Bells (a tavern in Lombard Street in the City of London) to exchange all their cheques in one place and settle the balances in cash.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Further reading

• cheque on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

Asturian

Noun

cheque m (plural cheques)

1. cheque (a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cheque, from Middle English chek, borrowed from Old French eschec, from Medieval Latin scaccus, from Arabic ????? (š?h), borrowed from Persian ???? (šâh, “king”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k/
• Hyphenation: che?que
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

cheque m (plural cheques, diminutive chequeje n)

1. check, cheque (a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity)
2. voucher, used to pay a stated amount for a specific purpose.

Derived terms

• bankcheque
• betaalcheque
• chequeboek
• chequeverkeer

- vouchers

• dienstencheque
• ecocheque
• maaltijdcheque
• waardecheque

Related terms

• schaak

Galician

Etymology

From English cheque

Noun

cheque m (plural cheques)

1. cheque, blank cheque

Derived terms

• chequeira
• cheque en branco

Portuguese

Etymology

From English cheque, from Old French eschec, from Medieval Latin scaccus, from Arabic ????? (š?h), from Persian ???? (šâh, “king”), from Middle Persian ????????????????? (š?h), from Old Persian ???? (xš?ya?iya, “king”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ksayati (“he rules, he has power over”), from Proto-Indo-European *tke- (“to gain power over, gain control over”). Cognate of xeque.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /???.k?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /???.ki/
• Hyphenation: che?que
• Rhymes: -?k(i)

Noun

cheque m (plural cheques)

1. cheque

Spanish

Etymology

From English cheque. Doublet of jaque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??eke/, [?t??e.ke]

Noun

cheque m (plural cheques)

1. cheque, blank cheque

Derived terms

• chequera
• cheque en blanco

Adverb

cheque

1. (Honduras) well, fine, okay

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ft/
• Rhymes: -?ft

Etymology 1

From Middle English evete, from Old English efeta, of unknown origin.

Noun

eft (plural efts)

1. A newt, especially the European smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, syn. Triturus punctatus).
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:

     Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].

   • 1844, Robert Browning, "Garden Fancies," II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgennis:

     How did he like it when the live creatures

     Tickled and toused and browsed him all over,

     And worm, slug, eft, with serious features

     Came in, each one, for his right of trover?

Usage notes

The term red eft is used for the land-dwelling juvenile stage of the Eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens).

Derived terms

• red eft

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English eft, from Proto-Germanic *aftiz. Compare after, aft.

Adverb

eft (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Again; afterwards
   • 14^thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale in The Canterbury Tales,

     Were I unbounden, all so may I the, / I woulde never eft come in the snare.

   • 1384, John Wycliffe, Bible (Wycliffe): Mark, ii, 1,

     And eft he entride in to Cafarnaum, aftir eiyte daies.

   • 1557, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The Fourth Book of Virgil,

     And when they were all gone, / And the dim moon doth eft withhold the light, […]

Derived terms

• eftsoons

Translations

Anagrams

• ETF, FET, FTE, TFE, fet, tef

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aftiz. Cognate with Old Frisian eft, Old Saxon eft, Old Norse ept.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eft/

Adverb

eft

1. again
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Sermon on the Beginning of Creation"

2. back (of return or reversal)
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"

   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 26:52

3. afterwards

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aftiz. Cognate with Old Frisian eft, Old English eft, Old Norse ept.

Adverb

eft

1. afterwards, again

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English evete, from Old English efete.

Noun

eft

1. newt

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN