What's the difference between account and check?

Account


Definition:

  • (n.) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
  • (n.) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.
  • (n.) A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.
  • (n.) A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.
  • (n.) A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
  • (n.) An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
  • (n.) Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
  • (v. t.) To reckon; to compute; to count.
  • (v. t.) To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to.
  • (v. t.) To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
  • (v. t.) To recount; to relate.
  • (v. i.) To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
  • (v. i.) To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.
  • (v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These factors might account for the lower systemic bioavailability of these compounds.
  • (2) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
  • (3) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
  • (4) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
  • (5) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
  • (6) Thus, it appears that neuronal loss may account for up to roughly half of the striatal D2 receptor loss during aging.
  • (7) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
  • (8) That is why you will be held relentlessly to account for those choices; why what you said in February invites forensic scrutiny.
  • (9) This decrease cannot be accounted for by increased turnover of the mRNA in the presence of the drug.
  • (10) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
  • (11) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
  • (12) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
  • (13) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
  • (14) This study examines the extent to which changes in smoking can account for the decrease in CHD mortality for men and women aged 35-64 years.
  • (15) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
  • (16) The multiple logistic model, the most commonly used model for the analysis of coronary heart disease studies, does not consider survival time in assessment of the dependent covariates and does not account for the censoring which usually occurs in such studies.
  • (17) Decreased synthesis rather than increased utilization accounted for the nucleoside effect.
  • (18) The M&S Current Account, which has no monthly fee, is available from 15 May and is offering people the chance to bank and shop under one roof.
  • (19) Gradual evolutionary change by natural selection operates so slowly within established species that it cannot account for the major features of evolution.
  • (20) The term acute allergic colitis seems to be more suitable taking into account the distribution, the cause and the development of this disease.

Check


Definition:

  • (n.) A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move.
  • (n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check.
  • (n.) Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff.
  • (n.) A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad.
  • (n.) A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.
  • (n.) A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.
  • (n.) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
  • (n.) Small chick or crack.
  • (v. t.) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check.
  • (v. t.) To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.
  • (v. t.) To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage.
  • (v. t.) To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
  • (v. t.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
  • (v. t.) To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber.
  • (v. i.) To make a stop; to pause; -- with at.
  • (v. i.) To clash or interfere.
  • (v. i.) To act as a curb or restraint.
  • (v. i.) To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
  • (v. i.) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
  • (a.) Checkered; designed in checks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
  • (2) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
  • (3) In 14 of the patients the imaging results were checked against the histological findings of a subsequent thymectomy, which revealed four thymomas and (with the exception of one normal thymus) hyperplastic changes in all the others.
  • (4) The results indicated that 48% of the sample either regularly checked their own skin or had it checked by another person (such as a spouse), and 17% had been screened by a general practitioner in the preceding 12 months.
  • (5) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
  • (6) Photosynthetic activity of the cells was checked by placing the cell evenly illuminated in a (14)CO(2) atmosphere.
  • (7) The system of automated diagnosis makes it possible to significantly increase the quality and efficacy of wide-scale prophylactic check-ups of the population.
  • (8) I'll admit to not having realised that more than £100bn would be committed to Trident – I half-remembered reading that it would cost £20bn, so went online, only to discover that the higher figure checks out .
  • (9) After a four-week period on a placebo, hypertensive smokers were treated with slow-release nicardipine 40 mg twice daily for six months and were checked at the end of the placebo period, after the first dose of nicardipine and at the end of six months of therapy.
  • (10) Adverse events and life status were checked at regular intervals.
  • (11) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
  • (12) Other details showed the wrong patient undergoing a heart procedure, and the wrong patient given an invasive colonoscopy to check their bowel.
  • (13) Also remember that each time you apply for a loan your credit record is checked, which will leave a footprint of the search.
  • (14) Check out the latest bill from Russia's parliament, the Duma: its aim is to ban the "unnecessary" usage of foreign words (in cases where there is a pre-existing Russian counterpart).
  • (15) Once outside the body they can be purified, expanded in culture, and checked via genome sequencing to ensure the editing has been successful.
  • (16) Indeed, the geographical nature of the division also keeps a check on the club's carbon footprint – Dartford rarely have to travel far outside the M25, with the trips to Bognor Regis and Margate about as distant as they get.
  • (17) No sick or dead monkeys were found in all the forests checked around Entebbe area during the epizootic.
  • (18) I tweet, check Facebook, chat with friends, keep in touch with colleagues, check in using Foursquare, use it to check work emails from home and organise notes using Evernote.
  • (19) At the centre of the Zyed and Bouna deaths is the continuing issue of police controls, stop and searches and identity checks.
  • (20) And all senior management will be required to drive Toyota vehicles and check where the problems lie.