check
/t͡ʃɛk/ verb C2- To inspect; to examine. · Check the oil in your car once a month.· Check whether this page has a watermark.
- To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
- 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). · Check the items on the list that interest you.· Check the correct answer to each question.
- To control, limit, or halt. · Check your enthusiasm during a negotiation.· In mid-sentence, I checked myself abruptly, looking terribly embarrassed.
- To scold or rebuke someone.
- To verify or compare with a source of information. · Check your data against known values.
- To leave in safekeeping. · Check your hat and coat at the door.
- To leave with a shipping agent for shipping. · Check your bags at the ticket counter before the flight.
Plural check · He/she/it checks · Past checked · Past participle checked · -ing form checking
Verb forms
- Base form
- check
- He/she/it
- checks
- Past
- checked
- Past participle
- checked
- -ing form
- checking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- check in To announce or record one's own arrival at a hotel, airpo...
- check into To formally announce one's arrival at a location or event...
- check off To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing ...
- check on To personally verify that (someone or something) is safe,...
- check out To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or somet...
- check over To read or inspect, looking for errors or problems.
- check through To permit someone to continue onward, e.g. through a secu...
- check up To verify through brief investigation or revisit for assu...
From the library
Having never even fancied herself in love before, her regard had all the warmth of first attachment, and from her age and disposition, greater steadiness than first attachments often boast; and so fervently did she value his remembrance, and prefer him to every other man, that all her good sense, and all her attention to the feelings of her friends, were requisite to check the indulgence of those regrets which must have been injurious to her own health and their tranquillity.
In vain did Elizabeth endeavour to check the rapidity of her mother’s words, or persuade her to describe her felicity in a less audible whisper; for to her inexpressible vexation she could perceive that the chief of it was overheard by Mr.
And, if I may mention so delicate a subject, endeavour to check that little something, bordering on conceit and impertinence, which your lady possesses.”
Elizabeth had frequently united with Jane in an endeavour to check the imprudence of Catherine and Lydia; but while they were supported by their mother’s indulgence, what chance could there be of improvement?
Other matches
- check An inspection or examination. A1
- check To mark with a check pattern. A2
- check A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alter... C2
- check An expression showing that a requirement has be... C2
- check in To announce or record one's own arrival at a ho...
- check into To formally announce one's arrival at a locatio...
- check off To mark items on a list
- check on To personally verify that
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