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To inspect; to examine.

Example: Check the oil in your car once a month.

To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).

(often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).

Example: Check off the items that you've checked (inspected).

To control, limit, or halt.

Example: Check your enthusiasm during a negotiation.

To mark with a check pattern.

Having a pattern of checks; checkered.

Example: a checked tie

Of syllables, having a coda.

Of consonants, glottalized.

Verified or validated in some way.

Example: a computer program using checked arithmetic