checking

The act of physically keeping an opposing player in check.

Noun

  1. The act of physically keeping an opposing player in check.
  2. A checking account.
    • Withdraw $5000 from checking and put it into savings.
  3. An act whereby one checks something or someone (in any sense).
    • The gin had a delayed reaction. Its effect didn't become felt until Valerie had, after a wearisome walk and numerous checkings of her map, reached the flat. - 1991, Kathleen Conlon, Unfinished Business, →ISBN:
  4. The crossing of solutions in a grid.
    • One must reckon to solve at least three of the Playfair clues independently before cracking the code and getting checking to help with solving the fourth. - 1977, Games & Puzzles:
    • What about the corpus of Ximenes - Azed specials? In 'Printer's Devilry' checking is normal but the clues are special. - 1977, Games & Puzzles:
    • An added complication is that double definition answers are often very short, typically between four and six letters long, so there are lots of possibilities even when you have checking letters. - 2020 August 20,...

Forms

checkings

Derived

checking account extended static checking fact checking fact-checking nonchecking typechecking

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of check