2. Noun. (context: ice hockey) The act of physically keeping an opposing player in check. ¹
3. Noun. (context: informal) A checking account. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Checking
1. check [v] - See also: check
Lexicographical Neighbors of Checking
Literary usage of Checking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"checking by Angles to a Distant Object. — A practical and very useful method of
... An accurate and practical method of checking both the angles and ..."
2. Plane Surveying: A Text-book and Pocket Manual by John Clayton Tracy (1907)
"checking Computations is recognized in practice as a very essential part of ...
There are several general methods of checking computations. among which are: ..."
3. Emerging Electronic Methods for Making Retail Payments by Judith S. Ruud, Philip Webre (1996)
"Electronic checking Accounts Several organizations and coalitions of organizations
have been trying to create ways of using existing checking accounts over ..."
4. Auditing Theory and Practice by Robert Hiester Montgomery (1912)
"that in all other respects the purchase was in order, including the checking of
the calculations, the notations as to the department or account to be ..."
5. A Scrap-book of Elementary Mathematics: Notes, Recreations, Essays by William Frank White (1908)
"The habit which many high-school pupils have of checking their solution of an
equation by first substituting for x in both members of the given equation, ..."
6. The Journal of Educational Research by American Educational Research Association (1921)
"... JAMES O. A checking schedule for projected school buildings. Milwaukee: Bruce
Publishing Company, 1919. 32 pp. The author has drawn the subject-matter ..."
7. Publications of the American Statistical Association by American Statistical Association (1908)
"THE METHODS EMPLOYED IN MAINE IN checking THE RETURNS OF BIRTHS, ... In Maine
the methods in use for checking or controlling and making more nearly complete ..."
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