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Definition: Checkout |
CheckoutNoun1. The act of inspecting or verifying; "they made a check of their equipment"; "the pilot ran through the check-out procedure". 2. The latest time for vacating a hotel room; "the checkout here is 12 noon". 3. A counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | 1. A sequence of actions taken to test or examine a thing as to its readiness for incorporation into a new phase of use, or for the performance of its intended function. 2. The sequence of steps taken to familiarize a person with the operation of an airplane or other piece of equipment.In sense 1, a checkout is usually taken at a transition point between one phase of action and another. To shorten the time of checkout, automation is frequently employed. (references) |
Computing | The application of diagnostic or testing procedures to a routine or to equipment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Scot. The meeting of the roof and floor, the coal seam being thereby cutoff; to pinch out. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CheckoutSynonyms: check (n), checkout counter (n), check-out procedure (n), checkout time (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Checkout |
| English words defined with "checkout": checkout time ♦ in line ♦ line. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "checkout": AIRCRAFT MECHANIC, ARMAMENT, armament assembler, armament installer ♦ CASHIER, COURTESY BOOTH, checkout GSE, Checkout Test language, CTL ♦ defined test point ♦ ELP ♦ grocery packer ♦ Kennedy Space Center ♦ radio operator, ground, RADIO STATION OPERATOR, Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. (references) |
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Screenplays | I'll tell you Arthur, the checkout lady was giving me the hairy eyeball (The Tick; writing credit: Larry Charles; Lon Diamond) | |
Lyrics | We took her groceries to the checkout stand (Same Old Lang Syne; performing artist: Dan Fogelberg) You can checkout any time you like, (Hotel California; performing artist: EAGLES) And I work in a market as a checkout girl (Fast Car; performing artist: Tracy Chapman) | |
Clever | Two Sisters Reunited after 18 Years in Checkout Counter (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Apollo 17 Flight Hardware Checkout. Credit: NASA. |  | ESSA-9, designated TOS-G prior to launch, shown during final checkout prior to being placed aboard launch vehicle. ESSA-9 was launched February 26, 1969, at 0247 A.M. Credit: NOAA in Space. |
 | Scanning at wholesale club checkout in VA. Credit: USDA. |  | Dilbert's Big Ben, Brentwood, Long Island, New York. General view from manager's office over checkout desks. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Among them is the hotel industry, which is trying to upgrade customer services by automating room service, quick checkout systems, payroll and reservation services. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Regis Philbin | I was in a grocery store the other day, at the checkout there, at the magazines, and there's Oprah's magazine. Oprah on the cover. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Checkout" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.71% of the time. "Checkout" is used about 70 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.71% | 67 | 40,952 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.29% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 70 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "checkout": checkout counter ♦ checkout line ♦ checkout Test language ♦ checkout time. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "checkout"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | konttroll dhe pagesë e mallit, kohë e largimit nga hoteli, arkë (box, box office, case, cash desk, cash register, cashbox, chest, coffer, crate, hutch). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | освобождаване на хотелска стая, отписване от регистъра на хотел. (various references) | |
Chinese | "算离开. (various references) | |
Czech | výstupní kontrola (check out), pokladna (booking office, box office, cash desk, coffers, desk, ticket office, till, treasury). (various references) | |
Danish | kontrol (check, checking, control, inspection, monitor, review, verification), jordkontrol, afprøvning (certification, test, testing). (various references) | |
Dutch | fouten opsporen (debugging, to debug, trouble-shooting). (various references) | |
Finnish | testaus (testing). (various references) | |
French | contrôle au sol, retirer (check out). (various references) | |
German | Austesten (debug, debugging, to debug). (various references) | |
Greek | έλεγχος στο έδαφος, εξελέγχω. (various references) | |
Hebrew | פ וי (clearance, clearing, disengaged, empty, evacuation, free, open, removal, unmarried, unoccupied, vacant), בקורת-יציא". (various references) | |
Hungarian | tesztelés, pénztár (cash desk, chest, coffers, desk, pay desk, pay office), kijelentkezés ideje, ellenőrzés (check, control, monitoring, supervision, tally, ticking). (various references) | |
Italian | verificare (ascertain, audit, check, check up on, come true, control, happen, overhaul, predictate, prove, supervise, toggle, try, verify), mettere a punto (debug, focus, perfect, tune), disdetta (abrogation, bad luck, cancellation, dismissal, notice, removal). (various references) | |
Korean | 검 (Check). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eckoutchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cheque (check, cheque), verificação no solo, testar (bequeath, leave), revés (backset, check, disaster, mischance, mishap, pull-back, repulse, reverse, setback, vicissitude), paragem (flag-station, intermission, location, place, spot, standstill, station, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping), dificuldade (ado, awkwardness, check, complicacy, cramp, crux, deterrent, difficulty, distress, embarrassment, encumbrance, fix, handicap, hardness, hardship, hindrance, hitch, hobble, holdback, impediment, intricacy, knot, let, matter, mess, need, nicety, nodus, obstacle, obstruction, plummet, quagmire, ravel, rub, scrape, stress, trammels, trouble). (various references) | |
Russian | контроль (check, checkup, control, inspection, monitoring, superintendence, superintendency, supervision, verification, whip handle), выехать из гостиницы, отладка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | provera (audit, check, checkup, crosscheck, vidimus), odjava (notice of withdrawal). (various references) | |
Spanish | comprobar (ascertain, check, check up on, make sure of, prove, substantiate, test, test out, verify), caja (barrel, body, box, case, cash, cash desk, cashbox, cashier's stand, casing, checkbox, chest, container, crate, cushion, drawer, fund, housing, jug, money box, money-box, pay office, paydesk, shaft, shell, slush fund, take, till, vessel, well), verificar (carry out, check, check out, demonstrate, establish, make sure, make sure of, prove, synchronize, verify), verificación en suelo. (various references) | |
Swedish | kontroll (check, checking, command, control, domination, recheck, screening, test, verification, visit). (various references) | |
Thai | การท"สอบความพร้อม. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "checkout": checkouts. (additional references) | |
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"Checkout" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Checkit, checrouit, Cheicko. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "checkout" (pronounced khe"kou't) |
| 3 | -k ou' t | blackout, breakout, cookout, knockout, lockout, lookout, shakeout, stakeout, strikeout, takeout, walkout, workout. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-h-k-o-t-u" | |
-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. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-h-k-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: checkouts. | |
+3 letters: shuttlecock. | |
+4 letters: countercheck, shuttlecocks. | |
+5 letters: counterchecks, shuttlecocked. | |
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