Avoid and Check

verb

• Stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something.
  • usage: "Her former friends now avoid her"
• Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening.
  • usage: "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
  • synonyms: debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, ward off
• Refrain from doing something.
  • usage: "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"
• Refrain from certain foods or beverages.
  • usage: "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"
  • synonyms: keep off
• Declare invalid.
  • usage: "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
  • synonyms: invalidate, annul, quash, void, nullify

• (a.) To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
• (a.) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
• (v.i.) To become void or vacant.
• (a.) To get rid of.
• (a.) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.
• (a.) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
• (a.) To empty.
• (v.i.) To retire; to withdraw.
• (a.) To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.

noun

• A written order directing a bank to pay money.
  • usage: "he paid all his bills by check"
  • synonyms: bank check, cheque
• An appraisal of the state of affairs.
  • usage: "they made an assay of the contents"; "a check on its dependability under stress"
  • synonyms: assay
• The bill in a restaurant.
  • usage: "he asked the waiter for the check"
  • synonyms: chit, tab
• The state of inactivity following an interruption.
  • usage: "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat"
  • synonyms: arrest, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage
• Additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct.
  • usage: "fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory"
  • synonyms: confirmation, verification, substantiation
• The act of inspecting or verifying.
  • usage: "they made a check of their equipment"; "the pilot ran through the check-out procedure"
  • synonyms: checkout, check-out procedure
• A mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc..
  • usage: "as he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name"
  • synonyms: check mark, tick
• Something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress.
  • synonyms: hindrance, hinderance, deterrent, impediment, balk, baulk, handicap
• A mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something.
  • synonyms: chip
• A textile pattern of squares or crossed lines (resembling a checkerboard. )
  • usage: "she wore a skirt with checks"
• The act of restraining power or action or limiting excess.
  • usage: "his common sense is a bridle to his quick temper"
  • synonyms: bridle, curb
• Obstructing an opponent in ice hockey.
• Chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king. (

verb

• Examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition.
  • usage: "check the brakes"; "Check out the engine"
  • synonyms: check up on, look into, check out, suss out, check over, go over, check into
• Make an examination or investigation.
  • usage: "check into the rumor"; "check the time of the class"
• Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something.
  • usage: "He verified that the valves were closed"; "See that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the product"
  • synonyms: see, insure, see to it, ensure, control, ascertain, assure
• Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits.
  • usage: "moderate your alcohol intake"; "hold your tongue"; "hold your temper"; "control your anger"
  • synonyms: control, hold in, hold, contain, curb, moderate
• Stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution.
  • usage: "She checked for an instant and missed a step"
• Put a check mark on or near or next to.
  • usage: "Please check each name on the list"; "tick off the items"; "mark off the units"
  • synonyms: check off, mark, mark off, tick off, tick
• Slow the growth or development of.
  • usage: "The brain damage will retard the child's language development"
  • synonyms: retard, delay
• Be verified or confirmed; pass inspection.
  • usage: "These stories don't check"
  • synonyms: check out
• Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics.
  • usage: "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"
  • synonyms: match, fit, correspond, jibe, gibe, tally, agree
• Block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey.
• Develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control.
  • usage: "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained"
  • synonyms: discipline, train, condition
• Consign for shipment on a vehicle.
  • usage: "check your luggage before boarding"
• Hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping.
  • usage: "Check your coat at the door"
• Abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey.
• Stop in a chase especially when scent is lost.
  • usage: "The dog checked"
• Mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on.
  • synonyms: checker, chequer
• Decline to initiate betting.
• Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of.
  • usage: "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
  • synonyms: turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back
• Place into check.
  • usage: "He checked my kings"
• Write out a check on a bank account.
• Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort.
  • usage: "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time"
  • synonyms: determine, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn
• Verify by consulting a source or authority.
  • usage: "check the spelling of this word"; "check your facts"
• Arrest the motion (of something) abruptly.
  • usage: "He checked the flow of water by shutting off the main valve"
• Make cracks or chinks in.
  • usage: "The heat checked the paint"
  • synonyms: chink
• Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only.
  • usage: "The glass cracked when it was heated"
  • synonyms: crack, break

• (n.) A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.
• (n.) A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.
• (n.) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
• (n.) Small chick or crack.
• (v.i.) To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
• (a.) Checkered; designed in checks.
• (v.i.) To clash or interfere.
• (v.t.) To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage.
• (n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check.
• (v.t.) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially his king, in check; to put in check.
• (v.t.) To chide, rebuke or reprove.
• (v.i.) To make a stop; to pause; -- with at.
• (v.i.) To act as a curb or restraint.
• (v.t.) To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.
• (n.) A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move.
• (v.i.) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
• (v.t.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
• (n.) Whatever arrests progress or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint or rebuff.
• (v.t.) To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber.
• (n.) A mark, certificate or token, by which, errors may be prevented or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad.

check is a written order instructing a thrift institution or bank to pay immediately on demand a specified amount of money from the check writer's account to the person named on the check or, if a specific person is not named, to whoever bears the check to the institution for payment.