Definitions for checked

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Spelling: [chekt]

IPA: /tʃɛkt/

Checked is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in checked (ccdeehk).

Definitions for checked

noun

1. Also, British, cheque. Banking. a written order, usually on a standard printed form, directing a bank to pay money.
2. a slip or ticket showing the amount owed, especially a bill for food or beverages consumed.
3. a ticket or token that when matched with a counterpart identifies an article left in the temporary custody of another, the purchaser of a ticket, a person who is to be served next, etc.
4. a criterion, standard, or means to insure against error, fraud, etc.:
5. an inquiry, search, or examination:
6. Also called check mark. a mark, often indicated by (✓), as on a list, to indicate that something has been considered, acted upon, or approved.
7. a person or thing that stops, limits, slows, or restrains:
8. a sudden arrest or stoppage; repulse; rebuff:
9. a control, test, or inspection that ascertains performance or prevents error:
10. a pattern formed of squares, as on a checkerboard.
11. one of the squares in such a pattern.
12. a fabric having a check pattern.
13. Chess. the exposure of the king to direct attack:
14. Ice Hockey. any of several maneuvers designed to obstruct or impede the forward progress of an opponent. Compare board check, body check, cross-check (def 5), hook check, poke check, sweep check.
15. a counter used in card games, as the chip in poker.
16. a small crack:
17. an egg, designated for market, having a slightly cracked shell and an intact inner membrane.
18. Masonry. a rabbet-shaped cutting on the edge of a stone, by which it is fitted to another stone.
19. Hunting. the losing of the scent by a dog or pack. (in fox hunting) a period in a hunt, following the losing of the scent by the hounds, during which the field rests quietly while the hounds cast to regain the scent.

Idioms

1. check the helm, Nautical. to alter the helm of a turning vessel to keep the bow from swinging too far or too rapidly.
2. in check, under restraint:

adjective

1. having a pattern of squares; checkered (def 3):
2. Phonetics. (of a vowel) situated in a closed syllable (opposed to free (def 28.)).
3. serving to check, control, verify, etc.:
4. ornamented with a checkered pattern; checkered:

Verb phrases

1. check in, to register, as at a hotel; indicate one's arrival or presence at a place, function, etc., usually by signing an appropriate form:
2. check on/up on, to investigate, scrutinize, or inspect:
3. check out, to vacate and pay for one's quarters at a hotel. to verify or become verified; examine or investigate. to fulfill requirements, as by passing a test: to itemize, total the cost of, and collect payment for (a purchase): to have the cost added up and pay for merchandise. to borrow (an item) by having it listed as one's temporary responsibility: Informal. to depart quickly or abruptly; leave in a hurry. Slang. to die.
4. check over, to examine or investigate, especially thoroughly.

interjection

1. Chess. (used as a call to warn one's opponent that his or her king is exposed to direct attack, having just one move in which to escape or parry.)
2. Informal. all right! agreed!

verb (used with object)

1. to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly:
2. to restrain; hold in restraint or control:
3. to cause a reduction, as in rate or intensity; diminish:
4. to investigate or verify as to correctness:
5. to make an inquiry into, search through, etc.:
6. to inspect or test the performance, condition, safety, etc., of (something):
7. to mark (something) so as to indicate examination, correctness, preference, etc. (often followed by off):
8. to leave in temporary custody:
9. to accept for temporary custody:
10. to send (baggage) on a passenger's ticket, usually on the same carrier used by the passenger, for pickup at the destination:
11. to accept (baggage) for conveyance, and to convey, under the privilege of a passenger's ticket:
12. to mark with or in a pattern of squares:
13. Agriculture. to plant in checkrows.
14. Chess. to place (an opponent's king) under direct attack.
15. Ice Hockey. to obstruct or impede the movement or progress of (an opponent). Compare back-check, fore-check.

verb (used without object)

1. to prove to be right; correspond accurately:
2. to make an inquiry, investigation, etc., as for verification (often followed by up, into, etc.):
3. to make a sudden stop; pause:
4. Chess. to make a move that puts the opponent's king under direct attack.
5. to crack or split, usually in small checks:
6. Poker. to decline to initiate the betting in a betting round, usually to force another player to make the first bet rather than raise it.
7. Hunting. (of hounds) to stop, especially because the line of scent has been lost.
8. Falconry. (of a hawk) to forsake the proper prey and follow baser game (followed by at).

Origin of checked

1375-1425; late Middle English. See check¹, -ed²

Examples for checked

Every car passenger and pedestrian is checked, one by one, until the operatives find their target.

She had nearly said a place of safety, but checked herself in time.

Every few days, I phoned him and checked on how she was doing.

He fished in his pockets for money, but Viviette checked him.

She checked herself abruptly and took the paper from his hand.

The EMTs checked J.W. and said it was up to Hayden whether she was released into their custody.

"But he told me——" she began, then became aware of her indiscretion, and checked herself.

Gen. Marion had rallied a troop there, and checked the pursuit.

From 1992 and 2007, the number of middle-aged women who checked into rehab nearly tripled.

Indeed, Putin checked out of Brisbane early, claiming he needed to get some sleep.