Word Meanings - CHECK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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. 2. A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check. Which gave a remarkable check to the first progress of Christianity. Addison. No check, no stay, this streamlet fears. Wordsworth. 3. Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff. Useful check upon the administration of government. Washington. A man whom no check could abash. Macaulay. 4. 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. 5. A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below. 6. 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. (more info) orig. check in the game of chess, pl. échecs chess, through AR., fr.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHECK)

• Coerce
• Restrain
• inhibit
• impel
• compel
• drive
• counteract
• check
• constrain
• force
• confine
• intimidate
• Curb Restrain
• cohibit
• hold
• repress
• moderate
• Detain
• Stay
• keep
• arrest
• withhold
• delay
• restrain
• embargo
• stop
• trail
• Copy
• transfer
• transcript
• sketch
• abstract
• order
• Draught
• Drink
• traction
• breeze

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CHECK)

• Release
• dismiss
• liberate
• free
• discharge
• expedite
• Loose
• instigate
• accelerate
• license
• indulge
• allow
• abet

Related words: (words related to CHECK)

• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• DRINK
  p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
• COUNTERACT
  To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• DRIVE
  To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by
• CHECKREIN
  1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
• TRANSCRIPTION
  An arrangement of a composition for some other instrument or voice than that for which it was originally written, as the translating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even an orchestral work, into a piece for the piano; an adaptation;
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• DRAUGHTSMANSHIP
  The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• SPANKING BREEZE
  a strong breeze.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• OVERDRINK
  To drink to excess.
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT