Check vs End - What's the difference?
check | end | Synonyms |
(chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
An inspection or examination.
A control; a limit or stop.
* Addison
(US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK) .
(US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada) .
(US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
A token used instead of cash in gaming machines.
* 1963 , American law reports annotated: second series (volume 89)
A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
(falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
A small chink or crack.
To inspect; to examine.
To mark with a checkmark.
To control, limit, or halt.
* Burke
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
To verify or compare with a source of information.
To leave in safekeeping.
To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
To physically remove a person from play.
(poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
(chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially the king, in check; to put in check.
To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
* Shakespeare
(nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
To make a stop; to pause; with at .
* John Locke
(obsolete) To clash or interfere.
To act as a curb or restraint.
* Dryden
(falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
* Shakespeare
(textiles, usually, pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
(rfc-sense) The final point of something in space or time.
* 1908: (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
* , chapter=4
, title= The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
Death, especially miserable.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
* (rfdate) Alexander Pope
Result.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
A purpose, goal, or aim.
* (rfdate) Dryden
* (rfdate) Coleridge
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
(cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
(American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
* 1926 , , (The Great Gatsby) , Penguin 2000, p. 11:
(curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
(mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
(ergative) To finish, terminate.
* Bible, (w) ii. 2
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad), XLV, lines 7-8:
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Check is a synonym of end.
As nouns the difference between check and end
is that check is (chess) a situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece or check can be (textiles|usually|pluralized) a pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern while end is a key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the last character of the current line.As a verb check
is to inspect; to examine.check
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) eschec, from . All English senses developed from the chess sense.Noun
(en noun)- I don't know if she will be there, but it's worth a check .
- checks and balances
- The castle moat should hold the enemy in check .
- a remarkable check to the first progress of Christianity
- Place a check by the things you have done.
- I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a check for the amount.
- I summoned the waiter, paid the check , and hurried to leave.
- The hockey player gave a good hard check to obtain the puck.
- a check''' given for baggage; a return '''check on a railroad
Synonyms
* (note of monetary transfer) cheque * (indicator mark) tick (UK), checkmark, * (bill of sale) cheque (Canada)Descendants
* German: * Spanish:Verb
(en verb)- Check the oil in your car once a month.
- Check whether this page has a watermark.
- Check the correct answer to each question.
- Check your enthusiasm during a negotiation.
- so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression
- She was about to retort but something checked the words on her tongue.
- Check your data against known values.
- Check your hat and coat at the door.
- Check your bags at the ticket counter before the flight.
- He checked the ball and then proceeded to perform a perfect layup.
- That basket doesn't count—you forgot to check !
- The hockey player checked the defenceman to obtain the puck .
- Tom didn't think he could win, so he checked .
- The good king, his master, will check him for it.
- The sun checks timber.
- The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, either is disabled for the future, or else checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.
- (Francis Bacon)
- It [his presence] checks too strong upon me.
- And like the haggard, check at every feather / That comes before his eye.
Derived terms
* check in * check into * check out * check over * check through * check upDerived terms
* bad check * bed check * body check * bounce a check * cashier's check * check against * checkbook * check casher * checker * checkers * checkered * checking * checking account * check in * check into * checking account * check is in the mail * check a person out * check it out * checklist * checkmate * checkout * check out * check over * checkup * check up on * check valve * checks and balances * counter check * cross-check * discovered check * double check * double-check * hot check * kite a check * put in check * rain check * reality check * recheck * revealed check * shoulder check * stick check * teller's check * traveler's check * unch * uncheckedEtymology 2
By shortening from checker, from (etyl) scaccarium, ultimately from the same Persian root as above.Noun
(en noun)- The tablecloth had red and white check s.
end
English
Noun
(en noun)- they followed him... into a sort of a central hall; out of which they could dimly see other long tunnel-like passages branching, passages mysterious and without apparent end .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.}}
- Is there no end to this madness?
- He met a terrible end in the jungle.
- I hope the end comes quickly.
- Confound your hidden falsehood, and award / Either of you to be the other's end .
- unblamed through life, lamented in thy end
- O that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come!
- Losing her, the end of living lose.
- When every man is his own end , all things will come to a bad end.
- There is a long argument to prove that foreign conquest is not the end of the State, showing that many people took the imperialist view.
- Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven [...].
- odds and ends
- I clothe my naked villainy / With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, / And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "end": final, ultimate, deep, happy, etc.Synonyms
* (final point in space or time) conclusion, limit, terminus, termination * See alsoAntonyms
* (final point of something) beginning, startDerived terms
* at the end of the day * big end * bitter end * dead-end * East End * -ended * endless * endlike * endly * End of Days * end of the line * end of the road * endpaper * end piece, endpiece * end product * endsay * end times * end-to-end * endward * endways, endwise * high-end * know which end is up * living end * loose end * low-end * make ends meet * off the deep end * on end * rear end * short end of the stick * split end * The End * tight end * to this end * up-end * West End * week-end, weekend * without endVerb
(en verb)- On the seventh day God ended his work.
- I shall end this strife.
- But play the man, stand up and end you
- When your sickness is your soul.
How to stop the fighting, sometimes, passage=Ending civil wars is hard. Hatreds within countries often run far deeper than between them. The fighting rarely sticks to battlefields, as it can do between states. Civilians are rarely spared. And there are no borders to fall back behind.}}