Check vs List - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between check and list

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 list is cunning; craft.

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)

(chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.

An inspection or examination.

I don't know if she will be there, but it's worth a check .

A control; a limit or stop.

checks and balances

The castle moat should hold the enemy in check .

* Addison

a remarkable check to the first progress of Christianity

(US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK) .

Place a check by the things you have done.

(US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada) .

I was not carrying cash, so I wrote a check for the amount.

(US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.

I summoned the waiter, paid the check , and hurried to leave.

A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.

The hockey player gave a good hard check to obtain the puck.

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.

a check''' given for baggage; a return '''check on a railroad

(falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.

A small chink or crack.

Synonyms

* (note of monetary transfer) cheque * (indicator mark) tick (UK), checkmark, * (bill of sale) cheque (Canada)

Descendants

* German: * Spanish:

Verb

(en verb)

To inspect; to examine.

Check the oil in your car once a month.

Check whether this page has a watermark.

To mark with a checkmark.

Check the correct answer to each question.

To control, limit, or halt.

Check your enthusiasm during a negotiation.

* Burke

so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression

* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13

She was about to retort but something checked the words on her tongue.

To verify or compare with a source of information.

Check your data against known values.

To leave in safekeeping.

Check your hat and coat at the door.

To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.

Check your bags at the ticket counter before the flight.

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.

He checked the ball and then proceeded to perform a perfect layup.

That basket doesn't count—you forgot to check !

To physically remove a person from play.

The hockey player checked the defenceman to obtain the puck .

(poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.

Tom didn't think he could win, so he checked .

(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

The good king, his master, will check him for it.

(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.

The sun checks timber.

To make a stop; to pause; with at .

* John Locke

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.

(obsolete) To clash or interfere.

(Francis Bacon)

To act as a curb or restraint.

* Dryden

It [his presence] checks too strong upon me.

(falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.

* Shakespeare

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 up

Derived 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 * unchecked

Etymology 2

By shortening from checker, from (etyl) scaccarium, ultimately from the same Persian root as above.

Noun

(en noun)

(textiles, usually, pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.

The tablecloth had red and white check s.

References

* * 'Check' at EtymOnline English terms derived from Persian ----

list

English

(wikipedia list)

Etymology 1

From (etyl), mostly from (etyl) gave rise to the sense of "catalogue of names" by circa 1600; it was influenced by (etyl) liste'' or (etyl) ''lista (both meaning "border, band; strip of paper"), which are themselves from the Germanic word.

Noun

(en noun)

A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.

* Shakespeare:

gartered with a red and blue list

Material used for cloth selvage.

* {{quote-book, year=1893, author=(Arthur Conan Doyle), title=The Naval Treaty, page=681, publisher=Norton 2005,

passage=The charwomen are in the habit of taking off their boots at the commissionaire's office, and putting on list slippers.}}

(in the plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.

* 1663 , (Hudibras) , by (Samuel Butler), part 1, :

With truncheon tipp'd with iron head, / The warrior to the lists he led.

* (Alexander Pope)

In measured lists to toss the weighty lance.

* {{quote-book, year=1819, author=(Walter Scott), title=(Ivanhoe),

passage=William de Wyvil, and Stephen de Martival, [...] armed at all points, rode up and down the lists to enforce and preserve good order among the spectators.}}

A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items; the enumeration or compilation itself.

* Francis Bacon:

He was the ablest emperor of all the list .

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= A punch in the gut , passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial.

(computing, programming) A codified representation of a list, used to store data or in processing; especially, in the LISP programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.

(obsolete) A limit or boundary; a border.

* Shakespeare

The very list , the very utmost bound, / Of all our fortunes.

(obsolete) A stripe.

(Sir Thomas Browne)

(architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.

(carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.

(ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.

(tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin.

(tin-plate manufacture) A wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* association list * blacklist * bucket list * bullet list * checklist * clout list * definition list * grocery list * hit list * laundry list * listicle * list price * mailing list * material list * punch list * set list * short list * stop list * to-do list * waiting list * whitelist * wine list * wish list

Verb

(en verb)

To create or recite a list.

To place in listings.

(obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.

(obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.

* Walter Scott, The Waverly Novels :

"I will list you for my soldier, then," said the Countess.

To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.

To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or form a border.

To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.

to list a door

* Alfred Tennyson:

The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom.

(carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.

to list a board

Derived terms

* delist * interlist

Etymology 2

From (etyl) liste, from (etyl) . Related to (l), (l), (l).

Noun

(-)

(archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.

* 1877 , James Clarke & Co, The literary world :

In discussing the Syllabus and the last dogma of 1870, so much must be allowed for Italian list and cunning, or a word-fence. An Englishman, with his matter-of-fact way of putting things, is no match for these gentry.

* 1893 , Solomon Caesar, Original notes on the Book of Proverbs :

"[...] The foxes had heard that the fowls were sick, and went to see them decked in peacock's feathers; said of men who speak friendly, but only with list or cunning within."

* 1897 , Lilian Winser, Lays and legends of the Weald of Kent :

For when the guileful monster smiled Snakes left their holes and hissed, — And stroking soft his silken beard Raised creatures full of list .

* 1991 , Alexander L. Ringer, The Early romantic era :

The general bass, in its fixed lines, is taken by surprise and overwhelmed by List ... (List = cunning); [...].

* 1992 , University of Reading. Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, Reading medieval studies :

The latter wins his fight not by list but through straightforward knightly prowess, [...]

* 2000 , Cordula Scholz, Georgios Makris, Peter Schreiner, Polypleuros nous :

It is worth noting that, contrary to Alexios who according to his daughter did not scruple to use any tricks to achieve his goal, Manuel, as depicted by Kinnamos, preferred "to win by war rather than by list ."

* 2008 , Jon B. Sherman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The magician in medieval German literature :

One man can accomplish with list (magic), that which a thousand could not accomplish, regardless of how strong they were.

Etymology 3

From (listen).

Verb

(poetic) To listen.

* 1607 , iv 3 :

Peace, what noise? / List', ' list ! / Hark! / Music i' the air.

(poetic) To listen to.

* Shakespeare:

Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain, / If with too credent ear you list his songs.

Etymology 4

Possibly from tilting on lists in jousts.[http://www.drbilllong.com/CurrentEventsV/ListWII.html]

Noun

(en noun)

(nautical) A tilting or careening to one side, usually not intentionally / not under a ship's own power.

(architecture) A tilt to a building.

Verb

(en verb)

(nautical) To tilt to one side.

the ship listed to port

(nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.

the steady wind listed the ship

Etymology 5

(etyl) lystan, from (etyl) ).

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To be pleasing to.

(archaic) To wish, like, desire (to do something).

* 1610 , , act 3 scene 2

If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy / likeness: if thou beest a devil, take't as thou list .

* 1843 , '', book 3, ch. VIII, ''Unworking Aristocracy

Ye are as gods, that can create soil. Soil-creating gods there is no withstanding. They have the might to sell wheat at what price they list ; and the right, to all lengths, and famine-lengths, — if they be pitiless infernal gods!

* 1959 , , "What is Political Philosophy?", in What is Political Philosophy? , page 51:

License consists in doing what one lists ; liberty consists in doing in the right manner the good only;

* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, page 413:

The spirit seemed to blow where it listed among a historically motley collection of Catholic theologians, Puritan zealots and American squires.

Derived terms

* listless

Noun

(obsolete) Inclination; desire.

Anagrams

* * *

References

1000 English basic words ----