Meaning of Checking | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of physically keeping an opposing player in check.
   countable, uncountable
2. A checking account.
   countable, informal
3. An act whereby one checks something or someone (in any sense).
   countable, uncountable
4. The crossing of solutions in a grid.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Withdraw $5000 from checking and put it into savings.”

“The gin had a delayed reaction. Its effect didn't become felt until Valerie had, after a wearisome walk and numerous checkings of her map, reached the flat.”

“One must reckon to solve at least three of the Playfair clues independently before cracking the code and getting checking to help with solving the fourth.”

“What about the corpus of Ximenes - Azed specials? In 'Printer's Devilry' checking is normal but the clues are special.”

“An added complication is that double definition answers are often very short, typically between four and six letters long, so there are lots of possibilities even when you have checking letters.”

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