What Does The Check Mark Mean On A Check Register

check marking

A mark placed next to an item to show that it has been noted, verified, or approved.

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check

(tʃɛk)

v.t.

1. to cease or abort the motion of suddenly or forcibly.

2. to restrain; control: to bank check an impulse.

3. to crusade to diminish, equally in rate or intensity.

4. to verify the definiteness of, as past comparison.

5. to inquire into, search through, etc.: to bank check the files for a missing letter.

vi. to audit or test the condition, performance, safety, etc., of.

seven. to marking so as to indicate choice, correctness, verification, etc. (frequently fol. by off).

8. to leave in or accept for temporary custody: Check your coats at the door.

9. to surrender (luggage) for conveyance.

10. to mark with or in a design of squares: to check fabric.

11. (in chess) to place (an opponent's king) nether straight attack.

12. (in water ice hockey) to obstruct or impede the move or progress of (an opponent).

v.i.

xiii. to prove to be right; stand for accurately.

fourteen. to make an inquiry or investigation, as for verification (often fol. by up, into, etc.): Check into the affair.

15. to stop suddenly.

16. (in chess) to make a move that puts the opponent's male monarch under direct attack.

17. to cleft or split up, as paint.

18. (in poker) to decline to bet.

19. cheque in, to register or written report one'south arrival, equally at a hotel or airport.

20. check (up) on, to investigate, scrutinize, or inspect.

21. check out,

a. to leave a hotel, hospital, etc., officially, esp. after settling one's account.

b. to verify or become verified.

c. to confirm or be confirmed as fulfilling necessary requirements, being in working status, etc.

d. to total the cost of purchases and collect payment from (a customer).

e. to lend or borrow (an item) officially, as from a library.

f. Informal. to depart quickly or abruptly.

g. Slang. to die.

22. cheque over, to examine or investigate thoroughly.

23. a written order, usu. on a standard printed form, directing a bank to pay money.

24. a slip showing an amount owed, esp. a bill as for food or beverages consumed.

25. a ticket given for items left in a checkroom, to customers waiting to be served, etc.

26. a criterion, standard, or means to insure against fault, fraud, etc.

27. an enquiry, search, or examination.

28. a mark, often indicated past (✓), as on a list, to indicate that something has been noted, acted upon, approved, etc.

29. a sudden abort or stoppage.

30. a ways of stopping, limiting, or restraining.

31. a exam or inspection, every bit to define quality or performance.

32. a pattern formed of squares.

33. one of the squares in such a design.

34. a fabric having such a pattern.

35. (in chess) the exposure of the rex to direct attack.

36. an ice hockey maneuver designed to obstruct or impede the motion of an opponent.

37. a counter used in bill of fare games, every bit the chip in poker.

38. a small cleft, equally in a painted surface.

adj. interj.

39. (used as a call in chess to warn that an opponent's rex is in check.)

40. Breezy. all right! agreed!

Idioms:

in check, under restraint: to hold ane'southward anger in check.

[1275–1325; Eye English chek, chekke (at chess) < Old French eschec (by aphesis), variant of eschac < Arabic shāh check (at chess) < Farsi: literally, king (an assertion: i.e., look out, your king is threatened); see shah]

syn: bank check, curb, restrain refer to putting a command on movement, progress, activeness, etc. check implies arresting all of a sudden, halting or causing to halt past means of drastic action: to cheque a motion toward reform. curb implies slowing or stopping forward motion: to adjourn inflation; to curb a horse. restrain implies the utilise of strength to put under control or concord dorsum: to restrain one'south enthusiasm; to restrain unruly spectators. Run across also stop.

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Substantive

bank check mark - a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.; "every bit he called the role he put a cheque mark by each student'south proper noun"

mark - a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation); "his answer was just a punctuation mark"