Check

I don't know if she will be there, but it's worth a check.

checks and balances

The castle moat should hold the enemy in check.

a remarkable check to the first progress of Christianity

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.

I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a check for the amount.

I summoned the waiter, paid the check, and hurried to leave.

The hockey player gave a good hard check to obtain the puck.

Liverpool had been reduced to 10 men in the 88th minute, Ibrahima Konaté collecting a second yellow card for a check on Kai Havertz.

a brass check

[…]the statute prohibits a machine which dispenses checks or tokens for replay[…]

a check given for baggage

a return check on a railroad

Check the oil in your car once a month.

Check whether this page has a watermark.

Check the items on the list that interest you.

Check the correct answer to each question.

Check your enthusiasm during a negotiation.

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

She was about to retort but something checked the words on her tongue.

Check your data against known values.

Check your hat and coat at the door.

Check your bags at the ticket counter before the flight.

He checked the ball and then proceeded to perform a perfect layup.

That basket doesn't count—you forgot to check!

The hockey player checked the defenceman to obtain the puck.

Tom didn't think he could win, so he checked.

After I checked my opponent with a pawn, he resigned immediately.

The good king, his master, will check him for it.

The sun checks timber.

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.

For if it [Loue] checke once with businesse, it troubleth Mens fortunes.

It [his presence] checks too strong upon me.

And like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.

Didn’t remember that at all. But it sure checks!

Keys? Check. Batteries? Check. We are all ready to go!

The tablecloth had red and white checks.

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.

CHECKY, [...] Checky, according to Colombiere, is one of the most noble and ancient figures [...] Checky is always composed of metal, and colour. [...] So that if that be or, and the next gules, the house or family is said to bear check, or, and gules. When the whole shield is not chequered , but only the chief, a bend, cross, or the like, the number of ranges should be expressed.

He died about 1270; and his son, Sir Robert, assisted the brave Sir William Wallace, and died in 1800. BOYD ARMS. Azure, a fesse check, argent et gules.