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checksnounpl. of check the amount owed at a bar or restaurant or the slip of paper stating the amountdiners at that temple of gastronomy often look shocked when they receive the check bills, tabs invoices, receiptsaccounts, reckonings, records, statementscharges, costs, damages, expenses, fees, figuresscores, tallies a close look at or over someone or something in order to judge conditionmade a careful check of the antique table before buying it audits, checkups, examinations, goings-over, inspections, look-sees, reviews, scans, scrutinies, surveys, views analyses, assays, close-ups, deconstructions, dissectionsexplorations, investigations, probes, researches, studiesinquisitions, interrogationsonce-overs, perusalsrechecks, reinspections, resurveysobservations, surveillances, watchescheckouts, test-drives, trial runs a record of goods sold or services performed together with the costs duerequest a detailed check from the company before sending any money accounts, bills, invoices, statements, tabs receipts, reckoningsdocuments, ledgers, recordscharges, costs, expenses, fees, prices, rates, tollsscores, tallies a small sheet of plastic, paper, or paperboard showing that the bearer has a claim to something (as admittance)handed over a check for his coat coupons, passes, pasteboards, tickets certificates, notes, tokens, vouchers something that limits one's freedom of action or choicethe judiciary is intended to be a check on the executive and legislative branches of government circumscriptions, conditions, constraints, curbs, fetters, limitations, restraints, restrictions, strictures exceptions, provisos(also provisoes), qualifications, reservations, stipulations, stringsbans, prohibitions, proscriptions freedoms, latitudes an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressurethe network of fine checks on the surface would indicate that the painting is quite old chinks, clefts, cracks, crannies, crevices, fissures, rifts, splits crevassescrazes, hairlinesfractures, rupturesbreaches, gaps, openingscuts, gashes, incisions, slits the stopping of a process or activitythe announcement of bad news gave a sudden check to the celebration arrestments, arrests, ceases, cessations, closedowns, closes, closures, conclusions, cutoffs, discontinuances, discontinuations, endings, ends, expirations, finishes, halts, lapses, offsets, shutdowns, shutoffs, stays, stoppages, stops, surceases, terminations mop-ups, phaseoutsabeyances, breaks, interruptions, layoffs, letups, moratoriums(or moratoria), pauses, standstills, suspensions continuances, continuations extensions, persistences, prolongations checksverbpresent tense third-person singular of checkto be in agreement on every pointtheir story of what happened checks with the report of the eyewitness accords, agrees, answers, chords, coheres, coincides, comports, conforms, consists, corresponds, dovetails, fits, goes, harmonizes, jibes, rhymes(also rimes), sorts, squares, tallies equals, matches, parallelsaligns(also alines), lines up, registers falls in with differs (from), disagrees (with) contradicts, disputes, gainsaysnegates, nullifiesclashes, conflicts, jars to bring (something) to a standstilla tree finally checked the skidding car arrests, brings up, catches, draws up, fetches up, halts, holds up, pulls up, stalls, stays, stills, stops baffles, balks, blockades, blocks, bottlenecks, clogs, dams, detains, hinders, holds, holds back, impedes, obstructs, snags, stemsconcludes, cuts off, ends, terminatescalls, discontinues, suspendschokes off, reins (in), represses, squashes, squelches, stanches(or staunches), stunts, suppresses, turns back carries on, continues, follows through (with), keeps (on), keeps up, persists, runs onadvances, fares, goes along, marches, moves, proceeds, progresses, wendsactuates, budges, drives, goads, impels, propels, pushes, spurs, stirs to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)check your enthusiasm a bit, and think before you marry someone you just met bridles, constrains, contains, controls, curbs, governs, holds, inhibits, keeps, measures, pulls in, regulates, reins (in), restrains, rules, tames bottles (up), chokes (back), holds back, minces, muffles, pockets, represses, sinks, smothers, squelches, stifles, strangles, suppresses, swallowsarrests, interrupts, stopsblocks, hampers, handcuffs, hinders, impedes, obstructsgags, muzzles, silences loses liberates, loosens, looses, unleashesairs, expresses, takes out, vents |