Spell-check

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of spellcheck. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

    "Some people might wonder why we still need copy editors when we have spell-check. Although it is a pain whenever I want to double a consonant before a suffix, per New Yorker style, and the spell-check prefers the no-frills version—“mislabeled,” say, instead of “mislabelled”—and I have to go back and poke in the extra letter and then put up with a disapproving red line under the word, I would never disable spell-check."

Verb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of spellcheck. alt-of, alternative

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"Spell-check solves a lot of problems."

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