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Checkmate: Definition and part of speech

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Checkmate

  1. n. A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.
  2. n. The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, — which ends the game.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Check: Definition and part of speech

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Check

  1. n. Small chick or crack.
  2. 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.
  3. n. A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check.
  4. n. Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff.
  5. 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.
  6. n. A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.
  7. 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.
  8. n. The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
  9. v. i. To clash or interfere.
  10. v. i. To act as a curb or restraint.
  11. 1n. 1 Small chick or crack.
  12. 1n. 1 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Cheapen: Definition and part of speech

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Cheapen

  1. a. To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate.
  2. v. t. To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.