Akademik

check out
verb
1. examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition (Freq. 6)
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check the brakes

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Check out the engine

• Syn:
↑check, ↑check up on, ↑look into, ↑suss out, ↑check over, ↑go over, ↑check into
• Derivationally related forms: ↑checkout, ↑check (for: ↑check), ↑checker (for: ↑check)
• Hypernyms: ↑analyze, ↑analyse, ↑study, ↑examine, ↑canvass, ↑canvas
• Hyponyms: ↑watch, ↑observe, ↑follow, ↑watch over, ↑keep an eye on
• Verb Group: ↑check, ↑check off, ↑mark, ↑mark off, ↑tick off, ↑tick
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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They won't check out the story

2. announce one's departure from a hotel (Freq. 1)
• Ant: ↑check in
• Derivationally related forms: ↑checkout
• Hypernyms: ↑report
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

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Somebody ——s PP

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

• Syn: ↑check
• Derivationally related forms: ↑check (for: ↑check)
• Verb Group:
↑match, ↑fit, ↑correspond, ↑check, ↑jibe, ↑gibe, ↑tally, ↑agree
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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They won't check out the story

4. trace
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We are running down a few tips

• Syn: ↑run down
• Hypernyms: ↑pursue, ↑follow up on, ↑act on
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s somebody

5. record, add up, and receive payment for items purchased
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She was checking out the apples that the customer had put on the conveyer belt

• Derivationally related forms: ↑checkout
• Entailment: ↑buy, ↑purchase
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

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Somebody ——s something

6. withdraw money by writing a check
• Syn: ↑cheque
• Derivationally related forms: ↑cheque (for: ↑cheque)
• Hypernyms: ↑withdraw, ↑draw, ↑take out, ↑draw off
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

7. try to learn someone's opinions and intentions
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I have to sound out the new professor

• Syn: ↑sound out, ↑feel out
• Hypernyms: ↑question, ↑query
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody


Useful english dictionary. 2012.