Definition of Checking

1. Verb. (present participle of check) ¹

2. Noun. (context: ice hockey) The act of physically keeping an opposing player in check. ¹

3. Noun. (context: informal) A checking account. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Checking

1. check [v] - See also: check

Lexicographical Neighbors of Checking

checkerboards
checkered
checkered adder
checkered daffodil
checkered flag
checkered lily
checkered whiptail
checkering
checkers
checkerspot
checkerspots
checkerwise
checkerwork
checkerworks
checking (current term)
checking account
checking accounts
checking in
checking out
checking over
checking program
checkings
checkitis
checklaton
checkless
checklist
checklisted
checklisting
checklists

Literary usage of Checking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"checking by Angles to a Distant Object. — A practical and very useful method of ... An accurate and practical method of checking both the angles and ..."

2. Plane Surveying: A Text-book and Pocket Manual by John Clayton Tracy (1907)
"checking Computations is recognized in practice as a very essential part of ... There are several general methods of checking computations. among which are: ..."

3. Emerging Electronic Methods for Making Retail Payments by Judith S. Ruud, Philip Webre (1996)
"Electronic checking Accounts Several organizations and coalitions of organizations have been trying to create ways of using existing checking accounts over ..."

4. Auditing Theory and Practice by Robert Hiester Montgomery (1912)
"that in all other respects the purchase was in order, including the checking of the calculations, the notations as to the department or account to be ..."

5. A Scrap-book of Elementary Mathematics: Notes, Recreations, Essays by William Frank White (1908)
"The habit which many high-school pupils have of checking their solution of an equation by first substituting for x in both members of the given equation, ..."

6. The Journal of Educational Research by American Educational Research Association (1921)
"... JAMES O. A checking schedule for projected school buildings. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Company, 1919. 32 pp. The author has drawn the subject-matter ..."

7. Publications of the American Statistical Association by American Statistical Association (1908)
"THE METHODS EMPLOYED IN MAINE IN checking THE RETURNS OF BIRTHS, ... In Maine the methods in use for checking or controlling and making more nearly complete ..."

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