Definition of Check

Check

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.

A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check.

Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff.

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.

A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.

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.

The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.

Small chick or crack.

To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check.

To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.

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.

To chide, rebuke, or reprove.

To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.

To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber.

To make a stop; to pause; -- with at.

To clash or interfere.

To act as a curb or restraint.

To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.

To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.

Checkered; designed in checks.

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Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
Walt Disney

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Ayn Rand

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
Oprah Winfrey

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert Camus

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
Will Rogers

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
Chuck Palahniuk

Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
Andrew Jackson

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
Sophocles