check

Related to check: spell check

check

1. interjection Used to verify that something is present or in order. A: "Oil?" B: "Check." A: "Gas?" B: "Check." A: "Air in the tires?" B: "Check." A: "OK, looks like we're ready to go!"
2. interjection Used to express one's understanding. A: "All right. First, I want you to go down to the generator and see if it's still working, then I want you to get on the phone to the electric company and have them send someone to fix the fault in the lines. Got that?" B: "Check!"
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

check

1. n. a dose of a drug in a capsule or folded in a paper. (Drugs.) How much you want for a check?
2. interj. okay; yes; yes, it is on the list. BILL: Four quarts of oil. TOM: Check.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • a blank check
  • a reality check
  • bad check
  • blank check
  • body check
  • bogus check
  • booty check
  • bounced check
  • bum check
  • by check
  • Can I/we have the check?
  • cash in (one's) checks
  • cash in checks
  • cash in one’s checks
  • cash in one’s chips
  • cash or check
  • check
  • check (one's) bags through (to) (some place)
  • check (one's) blood pressure
  • check (one's) luggage through (to) (some place)
  • check (one's) six
  • check (someone or something) skeef
  • check back
  • check back with (one)
  • check bags through
  • check in
  • check in on (someone or something)
  • check into
  • check is in the mail, the
  • check off
  • check on
  • check on (someone or something)
  • check out
  • check out from (something)
  • check out of (something)
  • check out the plumbing
  • check out, to
  • check over
  • check someone or something skeef
  • check something out
  • check that
  • check through
  • check up
  • check up on (someone or something)
  • check with
  • check with (someone or something)
  • check you
  • check you later
  • check your privilege
  • check your six
  • check yourself before you wreck yourself
  • check, please
  • checks and balances
  • checks notes
  • checkup
  • claim check
  • cold check
  • cut (one) a check
  • cut a check
  • death by spell check
  • don't let your mouth write a check your ass can't cash
  • fact check
  • fact checking
  • fake check
  • get a rain check
  • give (one) a blank check
  • give a blank check
  • give a blank check to (one)
  • gravity check
  • gut check
  • have some checking up to do
  • hold (someone or something) in check
  • honor (someone's) check
  • honor check
  • hot check
  • I'll get a rain check
  • I'll take a rain check
  • in check
  • keep (someone or something) in check
  • keep in check
  • keep/hold somebody/something in check
  • live paycheck to paycheck
  • look in
  • make a check
  • make a check (out) to (one)
  • make a check over to
  • make a check to
  • pass a bum check
  • pick up
  • pick up the check
  • pick up the tab
  • rain check
  • reality check
  • rubber check
  • spot check
  • take a rain check
  • take a rain check on (something)
  • take a rain check, to
  • the check is in the mail
  • write a bum check
References in classic literature
Climate plays an important part in determining the average numbers of a species, and periodical seasons of extreme cold or drought, I believe to be the most effective of all checks. I estimated that the winter of 1854-55 destroyed four-fifths of the birds in my own grounds; and this is a tremendous destruction, when we remember that ten per cent.
Thus we can easily raise plenty of corn and rape-seed, &c., in our fields, because the seeds are in great excess compared with the number of birds which feed on them; nor can the birds, though having a superabundance of food at this one season, increase in number proportionally to the supply of seed, as their numbers are checked during winter: but any one who has tried, knows how troublesome it is to get seed from a few wheat or other such plants in a garden; I have in this case lost every single seed.
Many cases are on record showing how complex and unexpected are the checks and relations between organic beings, which have to struggle together in the same country.
The increase of these flies, numerous as they are, must be habitually checked by some means, probably by birds.
The Origin of Species
He recovered the axe in the midst of the Milky Way of checks, starched shirts, and manuscripts, and prepared, when he came down, to kill Joe.
Martin Eden
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border, check collection in Canada usually just took one day.
Benefits from collecting checks electronically
The Check 21 Act enables banks to handle more checks electronically so they can process them more quickly and efficiently (Check 21 Act, [section]2).
Where's my canceled check?
Check 21 was designed to encourage the use of electronic check clearing but not mandate it.
The check is dead! Long live the check! A Check 21 update
Check truncation has not yet resulted in overall gains in economic efficiency for the Federal Reserve or for a sample of banks while Federal Reserve and bank officials expect efficiencies in the future.
Check 21 Act: Most Consumers Have Accepted and Banks Are Progressing Toward Full Adoption of Check Truncation
Typically, a government check carries a life limitation printed on the front warning that it will become void after a specified number of days.
Stale-dated check fraud: how much has your city lost?
While electronic check conversion (ECC) dramatically lowers check handling costs, it does nothing to aid the recovery of returned checks.
Check imaging is key to ECC success: integrated imaging technology cuts bad check costs and losses--and can make the difference between a successful or failed ECC project
Through the new law, a properly created substitute check becomes the legal equivalent of an original check.
Check 21: a step on the path to electronic banking: the Fed envisions a U.S. payments system that is more reliable, faster, and less expensive as check processing becomes primarily electronic, displacing today's methods of processing paper checks. "Check 21" is helping to pave the way