Definition of Check mark

1. Noun. A mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.. "As he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name"

Exact synonyms: Check, Tick
Generic synonyms: Mark
Derivative terms: Check

Definition of Check mark

1. Noun. a mark ((unicode ?)) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Check Mark

check-raising
check-swing
check-up
check-ups
check bit
check box
check boxes
check character
check digit
check girl
check in
check into
check is in the mail
check ligaments of eyeball
check ligaments of odontoid
check mark (current term)
check marks
check off
check out
check over
check overdraft credit
check rail
check rails
check register
check scale
check side
check sides
check stub
check up
check up on

Literary usage of Check mark

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"radieux, (Optics) radiant point. points courants, dotted line. pointage, m. check, check mark; pointing, aiming. pointe, /. point (in various senses) ..."

2. Decimal System for the Arrangement and Administration of Libraries by Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff (1856)
"As each quarterly and monthly is received, a short check mark (/) should be placed in the ... The diagonal check mark, as above shown, should be used, ..."

3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1909)
"The check mark was a visible sign, made so as to attract attention and to carry some information. In the absence of any further proof upon the subject, ..."

4. Treatises in an Interstate Commerce and Railway Traffic Course by La Salle Extension University (1922)
"If the shipments agree in the above particulars with the entries on the waybills, the employe must place his check mark, which must be an initial letter, ..."

5. A First Book in Writing English by Edwin Herbert Lewis (1905)
"The check-mark will frequently indicate bad spelling or punctuation, or fault in capitalizing. ... Fault in the use of a capital letter (see check-mark). ..."

6. Fundamentals of Accounting: Principles and Practice of Bookkeeping by Sietse Bernard Koopman, Roy Bernard Kester (1921)
"Sometimes both the ledger page number and the check mark (vO are used. ... If the check mark (v/) or some other mark were not used, the one doing the ..."

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