checking
检查,核对,核查,检验
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Definitions
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- : to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly: He checked the horse at the edge of the cliff.
- : to restrain; hold in restraint or control: They built a high wall to check the tides.
- : to cause a reduction, as in rate or intensity; diminish: The new measures checked the rapidity with which the epidemic was spreading.
- : to investigate or verify as to correctness: She checked the copy against the original.
- : to make an inquiry into, search through, etc.: We checked the files, but the letter was missing.
- : to inspect or test the performance, condition, safety, etc., of: Check a used car thoroughly before buying it.
- : to mark so as to indicate examination, correctness, preference, etc.: Please check the correct answer. They checked off the names of people they wanted to invite.
- : to leave in temporary custody: Check your umbrellas at the door.
- : to accept for temporary custody: We accept responsibility for any article we check here.
- : to send on a passenger's ticket, usually on the same carrier used by the passenger, for pickup at the destination: We checked two trunks through to Portland.
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Phrases
- check in
- check into
- check off
- check on
- check out
- check over
- checks and balances
- check up
- blank check
- claim check
- in check
- pick up (the check)
- rain check
- reality check
- rubber check
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Same coaches and same teammates, but practices were off campus and often took at least some precautions, like distancing and temperature checks.
It will be writing checks ranging between roughly half a million and $3 million dollars, and it is only planning to raise $40 million — so the checks will be selective.
To do so, check your local government website for OHV laws and regulations or head over to the Recreational Off-Highway Vehicle Association, which has tons of resources like basic off-road driver courses and tips for minimizing your impact.
Votes aren’t just little sheets of paper with boxes you check with a crayon.
Ballot designs and rules vary by state, but check that you’ve signed everywhere and sealed all the envelopes as instructed.
In this cockamamie get-rich scheme, would they all issue an apology if he cut a check?
We try to avoid going away for too long, so we can check back in.
She came to sound check, that was the first time we ever performed it, and it was really cool.
To judge her acting abilities for yourself, check out her videos on YouTube for “Sex Shooter.”
While the desk sergeant ran a background check, he was roughed up by another officer in the lock-up.
"Very well," said the other, handing him a check for twenty-five dollars as a retainer, and straightway left the office.
The new Government to preserve public order and check all reprisals against the Spaniards.
But in the organization in which we live over-production tends to check itself at once.
Am I to check the number of rounds in the limbers; on the beaches and in transit during a battle?