| check-in | the act of reporting your presence (as at an airport or a hotel) |
check checkout
check-out procedure | the act of inspecting or verifying, they made a check of their equipment, the pilot ran through the check-out procedure |
| spot check | a check on work performance or product quality made at random times without warning, spot checks ensure a high level of performance by employees |
checkup
medical checkup
medical examination
medical exam
medical
health check | a thorough physical examination, includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person |
| check | (chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king |
| discovered check | a check on the opponent's king that is delivered by moving a piece out of the line of attack by a queen or rook or bishop |
| check | obstructing an opponent in ice hockey |
| poke check | knocking the puck away by jabbing at it with the hockey stick |
| attendance check | a call of students' names in a classroom |
duplication
gemination | the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something, this kind of duplication is wasteful |
bridle
check curb | the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess, his common sense is a bridle to his quick temper |
| check | a textile pattern of squares or crossed lines (resembling a checkerboard), she wore a skirt with checks |
duplicate
duplication | a copy that corresponds to an original exactly, he made a duplicate for the files |
houndstooth check
hound's-tooth check
dogstooth check
dogs-tooth check
dog's-tooth check | textile with a pattern of small broken or jagged checks |
check
chip | a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something |
hindrance
hinderance
deterrent
impediment
balk
baulk
check handicap | something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress |
assay
check | an appraisal of the state of affairs, they made an assay of the contents, a check on its dependability under stress |
countercheck
double check | something that checks the correctness of a previous check |
confirmation
verification
check substantiation | additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct, fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory |
| bed check | a check that everyone is in bed by the time they should be |
parity check
redundancy check
odd-even check | a system of checking for errors in computer functioning |
| cyclic redundancy check | an error correction code that is recorded in each sector of a magnetic disk and used to catch errors in the data |
| check register | a register of checks issued (usually in numeric order) |
stub check stub
counterfoil | the part of a check that is retained as a record |
check
chit
tab | the bill in a restaurant, he asked the waiter for the check |
| rain check | a ticket stub entitling the holder to admission to a future event if the scheduled event was cancelled due to rain |
check mark
check tick | a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc., as he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name |
| check character | a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission |
| rain check | a promise that an unaccepted offer will be renewed in the future |
| reality check | an occasion on which one is reminded of the nature of things in the real world, this program is intended as a reality check for CEOs, after all those elaborate productions, I felt in need of a reality check |
check girl
hatcheck girl | a female checker |
traveler's check
traveller's check
banker's check | a letter of credit issued by a bank or express company that is payable on presentation to any correspondent of the issuer |
overdraft credit
check overdraft credit | credit provided by a bank in honoring a customer's overdrafts |
check
bank check
cheque | a written order directing a bank to pay money, he paid all his bills by check |
bad check
bad cheque | a check that is dishonored on presentation because of insufficient funds, issuing a bad check is a form of larceny |
| counter check | a blank check provided by a bank for the convenience of customers who are making withdrawals |
paycheck
payroll check | a check issued in payment of wages or salary |
certified check
certified cheque | a check containing certification that the person who issued the check has sufficient funds on deposit to cover payment |
personal check
personal cheque | a check drawn against funds deposited in your personal checking account |
cashier's check
treasurer's check
cashier's cheque
treasurer's cheque | a check issued by the officer of a bank on the banks own account (not that of a private person), cashier's checks are as good as cash |
blank check
blank cheque | a check that has been signed but with the amount payable left blank |
disability check
disability payment | a monthly payment made to someone who has become disabled and is unable to work |
medicare check
medicare payment | a check reimbursing an aged person for the expenses of health care |
old-age pension
retirement pension
retirement check
retirement benefit
retirement fund
superannuation | a monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work |
parity bit
parity
check bit | (computer science) a bit that is used in an error detection procedure in which a
or is added to each group of bits so that it will have either an odd number of 's or an even number of 's, e.g., if the parity is odd then any group of bits that arrives with an even number of 's must contain an error |
free hand
blank check | freedom to do as you see fit, many have doubts about giving him a free hand to attack |
arrest
check
halt
hitch
stay
stop
stoppage | the state of inactivity following an interruption, the negotiations were in arrest, held them in check, during the halt he got some lunch, the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow, he spent the entire stop in his seat |
| crack check break f | become fractured, break or crack on the surface only, The glass cracked when it was heated |
| check chink | make cracks or chinks in, The heat checked the paint |
| check | arrest the motion (of something) abruptly, He checked the flow of water by shutting off the main valve |