Check may refer to
- A crack: an imperfection in wood that can appear during the wood drying process; an imperfection in glass that can appear during glass production
- Cheque ("Check" in U.S. English), an order for transfer of money
- Check box, a type of widget in computing
- Check (pattern), (or "Chequered") a pattern of squares used on chess-boards, fabrics, etc.
- Check (unit testing framework), a unit testing framework for C programs
- CHECK Scheme, a penetration testing certification run by CESG
- Checking (ice hockey), the act of physically keeping an opponent restrained
- Rain check, an idiom from baseball meaning a deferral
- Tartan, a checked pattern in fabric and weaving
- Tick (check mark), a mark used for verification or notation
Famous quotes containing the word check:
“If he had been sent to check out Bluebeard’s castle, he would have come back with a glowing report about the admirable condition of the cutlery.”
—Mary McGrory (b. 1918)
“This fellow is wise enough to play the fool,
And to do that well craves a kind of wit.
He must observe their mood on whom he jests,
The quality of persons, and the time,
Not, like the haggard, check at every feather
That comes before his eye. This is a practice
As full of labor as a wise man’s art.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)