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Check can be a noun or a verb.
check used as a noun:
- An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada).
"I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a check for the amount." - A mark (especially a checkmark: √ ) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK).
"Place a check by the things you have done." - A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
"The tablecloth had red and white checks." - A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
"I summoned the waiter, paid the check, and hurried to leave." - A control; a limit or stop.
"checks and balances" - An inspection or examination.
"I don't know if she will be there, but it's worth a check." - The situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
- A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
"The hockey player gave a good hard check to obtain the puck."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
check used as a verb:
- To inspect; to examine.
"Check the oil in your car once a month." - To mark with a checkmark.
"Check the correct answer to each question." - To control, limit, or halt.
"Check your enthusiasm during a negotiation." - To verify or compare with a source of information.
"Check your data against known values." - To leave in safekeeping.
"Check your hat and coat at the door." - To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
"Check your bags at the ticket counter before the flight." - To physically remove a person from play.
"The hockey player checked the defenceman to obtain the puck." - To remain in the hand without betting, only legal if no one has yet bet.
"Tom did not think he could win, so he checked."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is check?
- Noun usage: I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a check for the amount.
- Noun usage: Place a check by the things you have done.
- Noun usage: The tablecloth had red and white checks.
- Noun usage: I summoned the waiter, paid the check, and hurried to leave.
- Noun usage: checks and balances
- Noun usage: I don't know if she will be there, but it's worth a check.
- Noun usage: The hockey player gave a good hard check to obtain the puck.
- Verb usage: Check the oil in your car once a month.
- Verb usage: Check whether this page has a watermark.
- Verb usage: Check the correct answer to each question.
- Verb usage: Check your enthusiasm during a negotiation.
- Verb usage: Check your data against known values.
- Verb usage: Check your hat and coat at the door.
- Verb usage: Check your bags at the ticket counter before the flight.
- Verb usage: The hockey player checked the defenceman to obtain the puck.
- Verb usage: Tom did not think he could win, so he checked.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of check are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of check, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
