check mark
noun
[ ˈtʃɛkmɑːk ]
• a mark (✓) used to indicate that an item in a list or text is correct or has been chosen, checked, or dealt with; a tick.
check
noun
• an examination to test or ascertain accuracy, quality, or satisfactory condition.
• "a campaign calling for regular checks on gas appliances"
Similar:
examination,
inspection,
scrutiny,
scrutinization,
check-up,
perusal,
study,
investigation,
probe,
dissection,
analysis,
assessment,
inquiry,
test,
trial,
assay,
monitoring,
once-over,
going-over,
look-see,
anatomization,
• a stopping or slowing of progress.
• "there was no check to the expansion of the market"
• a move by which a piece or pawn directly attacks the opponent's king and by which the king may be checkmated.
• US spelling of cheque.
• a token of identification for left luggage.
• a counter used as a stake in a gambling game.
• another term for tick1 (sense 1 of the noun).
• a part of a piano which catches the hammer and prevents it retouching the strings.
• a crack or flaw in timber.
Origin:
Middle English (originally as used in the game of chess): the noun and exclamation from Old French eschec, from medieval Latin scaccus, via Arabic from Persian šāh ‘king’; the verb from Old French eschequier ‘play chess, put in check’. The sense ‘stop or control’ arose from the use in chess, and led (in the late 17th century) to ‘examine the accuracy of’.
