(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.
Plaid
Definition:
(n.) A rectangular garment or piece of cloth, usually made of the checkered material called tartan, but sometimes of plain gray, or gray with black stripes. It is worn by both sexes in Scotland.
(n.) Goods of any quality or material of the pattern of a plaid or tartan; a checkered cloth or pattern.
(a.) Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scotch plaid; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another; as, plaid muslin.
Example Sentences:
(1) It may not point to independence – nor, given that large swaths of Wales remain firmly dominated by Labour, mean any huge advance for Plaid Cymru.
(2) Now remarried, and a father, he is standing for Plaid Cymru, again in the Cardiff Bay seat.
(3) He asked for details of farm subsidies paid to opposition politicians including the Welsh Tory leader, Andrew RT Davies, the Welsh Liberal Democrat chief, Kirsty Williams, and Plaid Cymru's Llyr Huws Gruffydd.
(4) A spokesperson for Plaid Cymru said: “On 5 May, Wales chose not to elect one single party to govern Wales with a majority.
(5) In Scotland and Wales respectively, the major parties are joined by the Scottish National party and Plaid Cyrmu.
(6) We find that as the stereo depth separation of the two component gratings increases, the probability of seeing a plaid declines.
(7) She added that Plaid Cymru wanted the SDC to be retained in Wales.
(8) Her answer was prompted by a question last week from Plaid Cymru's sustainability spokesperson Leanne Wood AM.
(9) Her first major initiative was to set up an economic commission headed by the former Plaid MP Adam Price, one of the party's brightest sparks.
(10) The Welsh Liberal Democrats also called last night on the coalition Plaid Cymru-Labour Welsh government to join the growing campaign.
(11) He had always subscribed to the pacifist principles at the heart of Plaid Cymru's philosophy.
(12) Compared with Scotland, Plaid and Welsh independence seem beached.
(13) Only in Wales does something resembling political orthodoxy seem to be holding; but then again, it is not that long since Plaid Cymru was temporarily booting Labour out of some of its post-industrial heartlands.
(14) With the aid of a series of demonstrations (plus two formal experiments) we (1) propose a new explanation for the fact that edge line terminators in a "barber pole" display are perceived as intrinsic; (2) show that inner line terminators in a plaid pattern (i.e.
(15) This is why decisive action is needed to protect our social housing to make sure it is available for those who need it most.” Dyfed Edwards, the Welsh Local Government Association spokesperson for housing and a Plaid Cymru councillor in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, said: “With many thousands of people currently on housing waiting lists, and at a time of acute shortages of affordable homes, the proposal from Welsh government to abolish right to buy is a welcome step in tackling a growing problem in Wales.” Mark Isherwood, the Welsh Conservative shadow minister for housing, was unimpressed.
(16) Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood tackled him on the subject during the seven-way discussion, saying it was scaremongering and that he should be ashamed of himself.
(17) Follow the right people At the time of writing, Murdoch follows only four people: @jack (Twitter's executive chairman, Jack Dorsey); @markpinc (co-founder of Zynga, which makes social games such as FarmVille); @plaid_page (an account apparently run for Google's Larry Page); and @Lord_Sugar (the artist formerly known as S'ralan).
(18) Plaid Cymru has socialism in our aims, to create a decent socialist world.
(19) She anticipated that Plaid Cymru activists and members of the Welsh assembly would travel to Scotland to help the yes campaign during the referendum campaign, using up their summer holidays.
(20) Labour left reeling in Wales as Plaid Cymru takes Rhondda Read more Ukip made a breakthrough , winning seven seats , including one for the disgraced former Tory minister Neil Hamilton.