Crossword-Solution: CHECK 5 letters, 377 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Check	n.	A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move.
Check	n.	A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check.
Check	n.	Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff.
Check	n.	A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad.
Check	n.	A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.
Check	n.	A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.
Check	n.	The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
Check	n.	Small chick or crack.
Check	v. t.	To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check.
Check	v. t.	To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.
Check	v. t.	To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage.
Check	v. t.	To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
Check	v. t.	To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
Check	v. t.	To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber.
Check	v. i.	To make a stop; to pause; -- with at.
Check	v. i.	To clash or interfere.
Check	v. i.	To act as a curb or restraint.
Check	v. i.	To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
Check	v. i.	To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
Check	a.	Checkered; designed in checks.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
CHECK	anagram	CHEKC

We have 377 clues for the answer “CHECK”

Clue	Answers
"___, please!" (request to a waiter)	1 answer
Alternate to cash	1 answer
Alternative to cash and charge	1 answer
American means of	1 answer
CONTROL securing accuracy, agreement, etc.	1 answer
Cash, ___ or credit card? (quaint query)	1 answer
Chess declaration	1 answer
Chess player's declaration	1 answer
Chess player's warning	1 answer
Chess warning	1 answer
Chess-game announcement	1 answer
Commit an infraction on the ice	1 answer
Examine for accuracy or correctness	1 answer
Credit card alternative	1 answer
Danger for a king	1 answer
Don't bounce this	1 answer
It's always dated	1 answer
It's signed but has no amount written in	1 answer
Kasparov call	1 answer
King pin?	1 answer
Many a defensive hockey maneuver	1 answer
Mark often put next to completed to-do items	1 answer
Not carry on, as bags	1 answer
One means of payment	1 answer
PATTERN of small squares	1 answer
Rain or spot follower	1 answer
STOP in progress	1 answer
STOP on losing scent (of hounds)	1 answer
SUDDENLY arrest motion of	1 answer
Test of accuracy.	1 answer
Word after "mic" or "reality"	1 answer
Word after blank or rubber	1 answer
Bank slip used to make a payment	1 answer
Word with book or list	1 answer
alternative to cash and credit card	1 answer
arrest the motion abruptly	1 answer
cheque	1 answer
look at something to obtain information	1 answer
make cracks or chinks in	1 answer
make sure look again	1 answer
threat to king	1 answer
when a king is attacked	1 answer
Credit-card alternative	2 answers
After-dinner request	2 answers
BRING short	2 answers
Bank draft	2 answers
Chess announcement	2 answers
Potential mate	2 answers
RESTRAINT on conduct	2 answers
saccade	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

RAAE

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with CHECK (5)

There is a vestige of decency, a sense of shame, that does much to curb and check those outbreaks of atrocious cruelty so commonly enacted upon the plantation.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

Next verse, Master Poorgrass.” But during this rendering young Bob Coggan evinced one of those anomalies which will afflict little people when other persons are particularly serious, and, in trying to check his laughter, pushed down his throat as much of the tablecloth as he could get hold of, when after continuing hermetically sealed for a short time, his mirth ultimately burst out through his nose.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Simply wait for the person to post again and double-check the address, or get in touch with your system administrator and see if it's a problem with local email delivery.

Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992

Great anxiety prevails in West Surrey, and earthworks are being thrown up to check the advance Londonward.” That was how the _Sunday Sun_ put it, and a clever and remarkably prompt “handbook” article in the _Referee_ compared the affair to a menagerie suddenly let loose in a village.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Machines connected to the Internet across the nation would connect to the NIC in the middle of the night, check modification dates on the hosts file, and if modified move it to their local machine.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet Ed Krol 1992

Quotes with CHECK (3)

Every last minute of my life has been preordained and I'm sick and tired of it. How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: the Italian Renaissance penciled in for right after the Dark Ages.... The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Postmodern Era, then the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and the tidal wav…

Chuck Palahniuk Survivor

All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause — there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once... Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had y…

Joss Whedon

Be appreciative about others, don’t criticize or crib about them. Gossiping will only fill you with negativity. Speak well about others. Positivity begets positivity. Don’t be in a hurry to pass judgment or criticize, check yourself before you do. It’ll pass- once you make a deliberate effort to be positive. If you can’t speak well of others then you have no right to speak ill either. A critical attitude spoils everything. You aren’t happy; in turn you don’t give your best, r…

Latika Teotia

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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 48 times in crossword archives (1959–2024).