What is "checked"

Usage examples of "checked".

It appears, therefore, at first sight that greasing the tips of these radicles had checked but little their bending to the adjoining damp surface.

In severe hemorrhages, this quantity should be administered every half hour, until the bleeding is checked.

Finally, his F-14 was lined up on catapult one, the deck sailors attaching the catapult to the nose gear Collins checked his instruments, the twin turbines purring aft, waiting to be kicked into full thrust.

He checked the indexes and methodically began reading everything he could find about agnosia and amaurosis, with the uncomfortable impression of being an intruder in a field beyond his competence, the mysterious terrain of neurosurgery, about which he only had the vaguest notion.

The commons appeared determined no longer to brook a delay of the agrarian law, and extreme violence was on the eve of being resorted to, when it was ascertained from the burning of the country-houses and the flight of the peasants that the Volscians were at hand: this circumstance checked the sedition that was now ripe and almost breaking out.

After they checked his pulse to make certain that he was still alive, Marks and Akers dragged him out of the storeroom and up the corridor to Module Nine, the laboratory which also functioned as the base infirmary.

Going to the door, Alec checked the corridor again and then continued with his task.

They checked altitude and air speed, fuel consumption and position in formation, and again searched the wide sea and the sky.

The courtier checked over the ornate clasp holding together the medley of chatelettes: the scissors, the manicure set, bodkin, spoon, vinaigrette, needle-case, the looking-glass and spike-leaf strainer, the faulty timepiece, the workbox, the portrait and tilhals, the anlace, penknife, snuff-box, and pencil.

Gerry Pitts, the manager of the Cambridge Armory, checked outside at least ten times just to make sure that no handlers were exercising their dogs on the lawn.

Would-be timefarers had to spend at least two days with her at the auberge while she and her computer checked civil status and psychosocial profile.

The culprit, Captain Audion, dead at his console with his accomplices scattered around him like so many checked pawns.

He checked the azimuth and corrected the boat slightly as it powered gently through the swells toward Mainland China.

She checked the accounts now kept by a relative of Toby Metta employed by Tyndall, and dealt with Monsieur Barat directly in Perth.

For every man who belonged aboard that rocket had beem checked and tested - how he had been checked and tested!