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Grammar : Verb
Spell : chek-out
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʃɛkˌaʊt

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Définition of check out

Origin :
  • c.1300, "a call in chess noting one's move has placed his opponent's king (or another major piece) in immediate peril," from Old French eschequier "a check at chess" (also "chess board, chess set"), from eschec "the game of chess; chessboard; check; checkmate," from Vulgar Latin *scaccus, from Arabic shah, from Persian shah "king," the principal piece in a chess game (see shah; also cf. checkmate (n.)). Also c.1300 in a generalized sense, "harmful incident or event."
  • When the king is in check that player's choices are severely limited. Hence, "sudden stoppage" (early 14c.), and by c.1700 to "a token of ownership used to check against, and prevent, loss or theft" (surviving in hat check) and "a check against forgery or alteration," which gave the modern financial use of "bank check, money draft" (first recorded 1798 and often spelled cheque), probably influenced by exchequer. Checking account is attested from 1897, American English. Blank check in the figurative sense attested by 1849. Checks and balances is from 1782, perhaps originally suggesting machinery.
  • verb leave a hotel, hospital, etc.
  • verb examine
  • verb prove accurate or consistent
Example sentences :
  • I think he was sent to check out what kind of an outfit we were.
  • Extract from : « The Biography of a Rabbit » by Roy Benson
  • Two classes assigned it and they don't have the copies to let us check out.
  • Extract from : « New Apples in the Garden » by Kris Ottman Neville
  • "So suppose you were going to check out a cartridge," Jayjay said.
  • Extract from : « Hanging by a Thread » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • She paid the check out of her own purse and sent the waiter out into the street to hunt for a taxi.
  • Extract from : « Good References » by E. J. Rath
  • The next morning the clerk was approached by the guest when the latter was ready to check out.
  • Extract from : « Toaster's Handbook » by Peggy Edmund and Harold W. Williams, compilers
  • While Moses wrote the check out, Lindon, with a display of affection he rarely showed, drew Nina down upon his knee.
  • Extract from : « Geoffrey Hampstead » by Thomas Stinson Jarvis
  • Zeke took the evening train home in order to pry that check out of the elder, but old Doc.
  • Extract from : « Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son » by George Horace Lorimer
  • Was it a part of your function to check out all rumors concerning connections between Ruby and Oswald?
  • Extract from : « Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
  • Did you, in fact, check out those that came to your attention?
  • Extract from : « Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
  • And durin' all the last of it he'd been promisin' to check out constant, but had kept puttin' it off.
  • Extract from : « Torchy and Vee » by Sewell Ford

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