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Check out

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Verb
  1. 1
    To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). transitive

    "He checked his favorite mystery out for the twenty-third time."

  2. 2
    examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition wordnet
  3. 3
    To record one's departure from a workplace, hotel, restaurant, etc. intransitive

    "Be sure to check out of the hotel before noon."

  4. 4
    try to learn someone's opinions and intentions wordnet
  5. 5
    To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision. transitive

    "He was hanging out at the beach, checking out the young women in bikinis."

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  1. 6
    announce one's departure from a hotel wordnet
  2. 7
    To obtain source code (and/or other material) from a source control repository so that one can modify it (and often later "check in" the modified version back). transitive
  3. 8
    withdraw money by writing a check wordnet
  4. 9
    To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative. intransitive

    "The purpose of this exercise was to ignite reactions from students, but over the few years I used it, it backfired, culminating in a situation where I lost a significant number of the white students, who just "checked out" for the rest of the semester."

  5. 10
    record, add up, and receive payment for items purchased wordnet
  6. 11
    To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive. intransitive

    "Even during those years, there would be a lot of times she just checked out. She would be sitting there looking at her nails and she'd just be gone."

  7. 12
    trace wordnet
  8. 13
    To leave in a hurry. intransitive
  9. 14
    be verified or confirmed; pass inspection wordnet
  10. 15
    To die. broadly, euphemistic, intransitive

    "Steve: (referring to his girlfriend attempting suicide in front of both of them) Look, I was just an observer. Bishop: You haven't answered my question. Steve: Well, what do you think? Bishop: We'll never know, will we? Steve: Well, say I just sat there—or we just sat there—and watched her check out. Think that would have been crazy?"

  11. 16
    To prove (after an investigation) to be the case, or to be in order. intransitive

    "The first two leads check out; I'll assume the third one is also valid."

  12. 17
    To visit the oche for the last time and clear one's remaining points to win the game.

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