check – English noun declension

English noun forms of check

Noun: check
Singularcheck
Pluralchecks

Sample Sentences

  • 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 [2026 September 6 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 33. Sunday, August 26. [1716.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:]
  • Norton had made a neat, lawyerly check beside each of the items he and Billy had picked up—half a dozen or so, including the milk and a six-pack of Coke. [1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:]
  • 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.
  • Liverpool had been reduced to 10 men in the 88th minute, Ibrahima Konaté collecting a second yellow card for a check on Kai Havertz. [2024 February 4, David Hytner, “Arsenal ignite title hopes as Gabriel Martinelli punishes Liverpool error”, in The Guardian:]
  • a brass check
  • […]the statute prohibits a machine which dispenses checks or tokens for replay[…] [1963, American law reports annotated: second series, volume 89:]
  • a check given for baggage
  • a return check on a railroad

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *tek-
3. Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáyati
4. Proto-Iranian *xšáyati
5. Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ)
6. Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ)
7. Classical Persian شاه (šāh)bor.
8. Arabic شَاه (šāh)bor.
9. Medieval Latin scaccusder.
10. Old French eschecbor.
11. Middle English chek
12. English check
13. From Middle English chek, chekke, borrowed from Old French eschec, eschek, eschac, from Medieval Latin scaccus, borrowed from Arabic شَاه (šāh, “king or check at chess, shah”), borrowed from Classical Persian شَاه (šāh, “king”), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ /⁠šāh⁠/), from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /⁠xšāyaθiya⁠/, “king”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáyati (“he rules, he has power over”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (“to gain power over, gain control over”).
14. Compare Saterland Frisian Schak, Schach, Dutch schaak, German Schach, Danish skak, Swedish schack, Icelandic skák, French échec, Italian scacco. Doublet of chess and shah (“king of Persia or Iran”), from the same source, as well as thig, which derives from the Germanic cognate.
15. All of the English senses developed from the chess sense. See: Middle English Nouns 'chek,chekke', Dutch Nouns 'schaak', German Nouns 'Schach', Danish Nouns 'skak', Icelandic Nouns 'skák', French Nouns 'échec', Italian Nouns 'scacco'.

Verbs referencing "check"

Dutch Nouns check, Swedish Nouns check, Spanish Nouns chequeo, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns sjekk, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns sjekk, Finnish Nouns sekki, French Nouns chèque, Finnish Nouns sökö, Danish Nouns tjek, Russian Nouns чек, Hungarian Nouns sekk, German Nouns Check.