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  1. noun An action or influence that stops motion or expression; a restraint: Heavy rains were a check on the army's advance.
  2. noun The condition of being stopped or held back; restraint: kept my temper in check; holding agricultural pests in check with sprays.
  3. noun An abrupt stop in forward movement or progress; a halt.
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  • This check was all the more disappointing because our air reconnaissance reported that the British fleet had left Alexandria, and that there was much traffic en route from Egypt to Palestine; moreover, leaders of the Egyptian Liberation Movement arrived by air and made contact with Rommel. —  Panzer Battles
  • Bink realized the term "check" related to the Mundane game King Trent sometimes played, called chess; a check was a direct personal threat. —  The Source of Magic
  • The sum on the check was a little jarring, but he paid it and dropped one of the coins he received in change into the telephone. —  153 - Trouble On Parade
  • Apparently my check was acceptable, because he noted a code on it and handed me the ticket. —  Ask the Cards a Question - Muller, Marcia - McCone 02
  • * Applicability: This check is applicable only when running live on a Solaris node. —  Sun Bloggers
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  1. Middle English chek, check in chess, from Old French eschec, from Arabic shāh, from Persian, king, check; see shah.

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  1. from Middle English chek, chekke, a check at chess, also as an exclamation, check!, any sudden stop, repulse, defeat, from Old French eschec, eschek, eschac, echec, achec, echaic, etc., French échec, a check at chess, repulse, defeat, plural échecs, chess, = Provencal escac = Spanish jaque = Portuguese xaque = Italian scacco (Middle Latin scacci, plural, chess) = Dutch schaak = Old High German schāh, Middle High German G. schach = Icelandic skāk = Swedish schack = Danish schak, from Persian shāh, a king, the principal piece in the game of chess: see shah. The literal sense of check! is ‘king!’ implying that the king is in danger (see chess). In sense 8 check is rather an abbreviation of checker, a square on a chess-board, properly the chess-board itself (see checker). The later senses are chiefly from the verb. In sense 13 check is in England also written cheque, in imitation of exchequer, with which it is remotely connected.
  2. from Middle English chekken, offer check (at chess: in other senses modern); cf. Old French eschequier, eschecquier, play chess, check, checkmate, later also eschequer, mark with checks; from the noun.
 

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