different between pay vs check

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?, IPA^(key): /pe?/, [p?e?]
• Rhymes: -e?

Etymology 1

From Middle English payen, from Old French paiier (“pay”), from Medieval Latin p?c?re (“to settle, satisfy”) from Latin p?c?re (“to pacify”). Displaced native Middle English yelden, yielden (“to pay”) (from Old English ?ieldan (“to pay”)) and Middle English schotten (“to pay, make payment”) (from Old English s?ot, ?es?ot (“payment”)).

Verb

pay (third-person singular simple present pays, present participle paying, simple past and past participle paid or (obsolete) payed)

1. (transitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.

   • The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.
3. (transitive) To be profitable for.

4. (transitive) To give (something else than money).
5. (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.

6. (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.

7. (intransitive) To suffer consequences.

8. (transitive) To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.

Conjugation

Hypernyms

• (to give money): compensate

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: paysa
• ? Scottish Gaelic: pàigh

Translations

Noun

pay (countable and uncountable, plural pays)

1. Money given in return for work; salary or wages.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

pay (not comparable)

1. Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.

2. Pertaining to or requiring payment.

Translations

Etymology 2

Old French peier, from Latin picare (“to pitch”).

Verb

pay (third-person singular simple present pays, present participle paying, simple past and past participle payed)

1. (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

Translations

Further reading

• pay in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pay in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• pay at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• APY, Yap, pya, yap

Anguthimri

Noun

pay

1. (Mpakwithi) forehead
2. (Mpakwithi) face

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

Azerbaijani

Etymology

According to Ni?anyan, from Persian ???? (pây, “foot”), with the sense ”share” originating from the Persian expression borrowed into Old Anatolian Turkish ??? ?????? (pây-berâber, “equally, to the same proportion”, literally “equal foot”). The word is present in its modern sense in XIVth century Book of Dede Korkut.

The non-Oghuz Turkic cognates, such as Kirgiz and Yakut ??? (pay, “share”) are, according to Ni?anyan, a borrowing from the Ottoman Turkish ????, via Russian ??? (paj).

Noun

pay (definite accusative pay?, plural paylar)

1. share
2. portion

Declension

Derived terms

• paylamaq (“to distribute”)
• payla?maq (“to divide among one-selves”)

References

• Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “pay”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük

Cebuano

Etymology

From English pi, Ancient Greek ??? (peî).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pay

Noun

pay

1. the name of the sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek
2. (mathematics) an irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually written ?

Jakaltek

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *pahar.

Noun

pay

1. skunk

References

• Church, Clarence; Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano?^[2] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 65; 39

Kalasha

Noun

pay

1. A goat

Limos Kalinga

Adverb

pay

1. too

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Turkish pay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??j/

Noun

pay ?

1. share

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From padre, from Latin patrem, accusative singular of pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?paj/

Noun

pay m

1. (hypocoristic, usually childish) papa, dad, father
   • 1525-1526, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, João de Gaia, B 1433: Vosso pai na rua (facsimile)

     Vosso pay na Rua / anta porta sua

     Your dad [is] on the street / before his door

Synonyms

• padre

Coordinate terms

• mãy, madre

Descendants

• Galician: pai
• Portuguese: pai
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: pai
  • Indo-Portuguese: pai
  • Kabuverdianu: pai
  • Kristang: pai
  • Sãotomense: pe
    • Annobonese: pe

Portuguese

Noun

pay m (plural pays)

1. Obsolete spelling of pai
   • 1545, Garcia de Resende, Liuro das obras de Garcia de Re??nde que trata da vida […] do christiani??imo; muito alto ? muyto podero?o principe el Rey dõ João o ?egundo de?te nome, page 1:

     De ?eu pay ? ?ua mãy ? ?eu nacimento.

     About his father and his mother and his birth.

Quechua

Pronoun

pay

1. he, she, it

See also

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English pie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pai/, [?pai?]
• Rhymes: -aj

Noun

pay m (plural pays)

1. (Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru) pie (food)

Derived terms

• pay de queso (“cheesecake”) (Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Guatemala)
• pay de coco (“coconut cream pie”)
• pay de leche condensada (“condensed milk cake”)

Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [paj]
• Hyphenation: pay

Noun

pay (definite accusative pay?, plural paylar)

1. portion
2. (arithmetic) numerator

Declension

Synonyms

• hak

Antonyms

• payda

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)

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

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)

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

References