Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having a pattern of checks or squares: checked cloth.
- adj. Held in check; restrained.
- adj. Linguistics Situated in a stopped or closed syllable: a checked vowel.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Checkered or variegated.
Wiktionary
- adj. North America Having a pattern of checks; checkered.
- adj. phonology Of syllables, having a coda.
- adj. phonology Of consonants, glottalized.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of check.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Held back from some action especially by force.
- adj. having a pattern of alternating dark and light squares in rows and columns.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. patterned with alternating squares of color
Examples
“Erin checked the manufacturer's website and found no announced firmware updates, and the newer titles play just fine.”
Watch Out For Firmware Shenanigans At Best Buy - The Consumerist
“Voting to allow firearms to be in checked baggage on Amtrak”
The Washington Post: No 'Buck Fever' this Season--Sportsmen Line Up for Bennet
“For traveling with wine in checked baggage we found a product called Wineskin.”
Astor Wines says no to Styro, yes to plastic sleeves | Dr Vino's wine blog
“I read that packing jewelry in checked luggage is not advisable, although I certainly do not have diamonds, rubies, or anything of the sort in my possession.”
“After all, while it's clear that this fight has been a PR boon to Scottevest, you can't blame them for taking advantage of Delta's censorship (which not incidentally takes place to protect their ability to collect millions of dollars in checked baggage fees).”
The Huffington Post: Matt Browner Hamlin: Scottevest vs Delta
“Only the federally subsidized Amtrak prohibits law-abiding American citizens from exercising their Second Amendment rights in checked baggage," he said.”
“Guns in checked baggage like airlines or in carry-on baggage?”
“I agree with Koldkut, there's some alterior motive here because there is no conceivable reason to not allow them to be in checked bags.”
“Then informed him that the correct answer was he would have been looking for a good emergency room to get his hearing checked from the screaming that I would do.”
This Is The Way The World Ends, Not With A Bang, But A Haircut - Her Bad Mother
“Little and Steadman checked the code word and found that "oaktree" was correct.”
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imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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part of speech, frown, brow, immensely, immense, incomprehensible, toil, concision, concise, proper noun, hyphenated, dash and 190 more...
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Words, when uppercase, look the same upside down and backwards.
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reesetee Around these parts, checkered is preferred to describe a pattern such as one would see on your lovely shirt. Can't say I've ever heard someone use "checked" the same way...but it could be that I haven't been listening. Jul 12, 2007
slumry A checked shirt...or, if you must, a checkered shirt. Jul 12, 2007