Check Out

Definition: Check Out

Check Out

Verb

1. Examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition; "check the brakes"; "Check out the engine".

2. Announce one's departure from a hotel.

3. Be verified or confirmed; pass inspection; "These stories don't check!".

4. Trace; "We are running down a few tips".

5. Withdraw money by writing a check.

6. Try to learn someone's opinions and intentions; "I have to sound out the new professor".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Check Out

Experiment

Grope; feel one's way, grope for one's way; fumble, t_tonner, aller _ t_tons, put out a feeler, throw out a feeler; send up a trial balloon, send up a pilot balloon; see how the land lies, get the lay of the land, test the waters, feel out, sound out, take the pulse, see, check, check out, see how the wind blows; consult the barometer; feel the pulse; fish for, bob for; cast for, beat about for; angle, trawl, cast one's net, beat the bushes.

Crosswords: Check Out

And they'd just eat with their mouths open, and to be honest, it was too much for me. You get to be thinking about how short life is, and how maybe everything has no meaning, because you wake up, and you're frying burgers, and you're like 60, 70, and then you check out, you know (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

Wendy! You have a surprise coming to you. Go check out the Snow Cat and the radio and you'll see what I mean (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

Our home food dispenser broke and I had to wait 20 seconds at the check out counter, such inefficiency (The Jetsons; writing credit: Aarne Tarkas)

I better go check out this Mongo character (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks)

And we have students and they check out books and then they learn things (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

You check out Guitar George, he knows all the chords (Sultans Of Swing; performing artist: Dire Straits)

Check out the oil on my Cadillac spills (Southern Hospitality; performing artist: Ludacris)

A chance to check out the new (Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing; performing artist: Stevie Wonder)

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave ("Hotel California"; performing artist: The Eagles)

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Books

• Time to Check Out (Stonewall Inn Mysteries) (reference)

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Title page to: A physical dissertation, concerning the cause of the variation of the barometer ...., by Jacques de Roubaix. Printed in 1721. Check out note concerning "that it is impossible to find out the longitude"! Library Call Number QC891 .R85 1721. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Pre-Schoolers check out the Wild Horses at the Burns Wild Horse Corral in Southeastern Oregon. Credit: Mark Armstrong.

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Health

Find out which one your employer offers, then check out the plan, or plans, offered. (references)

Business

Trade shows in Poland are also a good way to find or check out potential Polish partners. (references)

Earlier, the home customer would typically go to the nearest dealer, put forward his requirement and check out on the pricing. (references)

Travel

Austria

Whatever type of restaurant or inn you select, be sure to check out the daily specials (Tagesmenu), which typically mean a three-course meal (appetizer/soup, entrée and dessert) for one low price. (references)

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Expression using "check out": check out of a hotel. Additional references.

Albanian

shlyhem (square up), përputhen (check, dovetail), bëj pagesën. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مات (check in, croak, decease, depart, die, die off, end, expire, give up the ghost, go west, pass away, pass on, peg out, perish, rest in peace, snuff it, snuff out, succumb), ‏دفع ويغادر الفندق. (various references)

Chinese 

查證 (investigate). (various references)

Czech

výstupní kontrola (checkout), odhlásit se (book out), odhlásit. (various references)

Danish

nedtælling (count down, count-down), kontrol med accept. (various references)

Dutch

controleprogramma, controle (audit, check, control, monitoring, review, stocktaking, verification), uitchecken, afmelden. (various references)

Esperanto

prezentiĝi forire. (various references)

French

contrôle la sortie de, contrôle avec l'acception de commande, contrôle (check, checking in), viser, retirer (checkout), régler sa note, quitter, mourir, départ. (various references)

German

Check-out, stempeln (brand, clock, clock in, clock off, clock on, clock out, Frank, hallmark, postmark, ring in, stamp, stamping), stechen (be prickly, beat down, bite, clock in, clock on, cut, engrave, jab, kill, pang, pick, Pierce, prick, prickle, puncture, ring in, run off, spear, stab, stick, sting, take, take the trick, twinge), sich austragen (sign out), sich abmelden (announce one's departure, ask for permission to be absent, log off), räumen (clear, empty, evacuate, give up, move, move out, shift, sweep, to evacuate, vacate, withdraw), Ausprüfung, ausprüfen (to check out), ausleihen (borrow, get out, lend, lend out, loan, to lend and borrow), auschecken, abreisen (absent onself, depart, drive away, drive off, go away, leave, to depart), abmelden (cancel, cancel the membership of, have disconnected, log off, to give notice of depature), überprüfen (check, check over, examine, inspect, investigate, look over, overhaul, re-examine, review, revise, screen, scrutinize, to review, to revise, to screen, verify, verifying). (various references)

Greek 

έλεγχος (checkpoЯnt, checkpoint, control), πληρών το λογαριασμό και φεύγω από το ξενοδοχείο, εξακρίβωση (identification), αναχωρώ (depart, leave, quit, start, take off, vacate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשלם ולעזוב. (various references)

Hungarian

kivált (ransom, redeem, to antedate, to buy off, to check out, to create, to generate, to occasion, to precipitate, to provoke, to redeem, to take out, to trigger, to trigger sg off), kijelentkezik, kijelentkezés, elmegy (betake, depart, egress, flit, go, go away, go off, go with, leave, left, off it, pass out, take off, to chase oneself, to check out, to go away, to go forth, to go off, to go past, to leave, to leave for, to march off, to piss off, to push off, to put over, to quit, to resort, to sally forth, to sheer off, to sod off, to take leave, to take one's departure, to turkey off, to turn away, to visit), ellenõrzõ átvizsgálás. (various references)

Italian

controllo (audit, check, checking, checkup, command, control, curb, examination, grasp, I check, inspection, restraint, screening), consegna (consignation, consignment, delivery), concordare (accede, accord, agree, arrange, check, coincide, concur, conform, consent, make agree, reconcile, settle), verifica (audit, check, checking, control, gauging, verification). (various references)

Pig Latin

eckchay outay.(various references)

Portuguese

sair de (unthread, vacant, vacate). (various references)

Romanian

pleca de la hotel. (various references)

Russian 

сверить, сдавать под расписку, одернуть (pull up), подтверждать;выписывать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proveriti (audit, check, check on, check over, double check, screen, sift, test, verify), odjaviti se. (various references)

Slovene

odjava. (various references)

Spanish

comprobación (ascertainment, checkup, proof, substantiation, testing, verification), check out, verificar (carry out, check, demonstrate, establish, make sure, make sure of, prove, synchronize, verify), verificación (check, checkup, verification), pagar la cuenta e irse. (various references)

Swedish

checka ut, stämpla ut (clock out), kontrollera (audit, check, check up, check up on, control, go over, monitor, screen, supervise, verify, visit), flytta (displace, edge, leave, manhandle, migrate, move, move house, remove, resettle, shift, shunt, transfer). (various references)

Turkish

soruşturmak (ascertain, check up, enquire, inquire, inquire into, investigate, make inquiries, probe, verify), kontrol etmek (audit, check, check up, check up on, choke back, choke down, command, control, explore, govern, inspect, keep tabs on, see over, superintend, test), kaydını kapatmak, hesaplamak (calculate, cipher, compute, count up, discount, figure out, foot, foot up, number, reckon, work out), fertiği çekmek (croak, hand in one's chips, pass in one's checks, sneak away), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, desert, deviate, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw), ayrılma (breakaway, breakup, cleavage, decampment, defection, departure, deviation, disconnection, disconnexion, disjunction, dissociation, disunion, divergence, divergency, divorce, excursion, leave taking, leaving, parting, scission, secession, secessional, segregation, separation, sequestration, severance, split, split up, sunder, sunderance, turn off), öbür dünyayı boylamak (hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks), çıkış yapmak (boom), çıkış (ascent, boom, egress, exit, hit, issue, out, outlet, outrun, power output, rising, sortie, start, starting, up, way out). (various references)

Ukrainian

контроль (check, checkup, control), випробування (approof, assay, examination, novitiate, probation, proof, sampling, tasting, test, testing, trial, try), ознайомлення льотчика з літаком, закінчення роботи. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: checkout.

-2 letters: touche.

-3 letters: check, chock, choke, chuck, chute, couch, couth, cutch, ketch, teuch, touch.

-4 letters: coke, cote, cuke, cute, echo, etch, heck, hock, hoke, huck, keto, khet, okeh, ouch, thou, toke, tuck.

-5 letters: cot, cue, cut, ecu, eth, het, hoe, hot, hue, hut, kue, oke, out, the, tho, toe, uke.

+1 letter: checkouts.

+3 letters: shuttlecock.

+4 letters: countercheck, shuttlecocks.

+5 letters: counterchecks, shuttlecocked.