Used in a Sentence

checks

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for checks.

Editorial note

It would be much better to write proper checks or just call functions that do so.

Examples14
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

An inspection or examination.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of checks gathered in one view.

noun

An inspection or examination.

noun

A control; a limit or stop.

noun

A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for checks.

noun

An inspection or examination.

noun

A control; a limit or stop.

noun

A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.

noun

A mark, certificate, or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.

Example sentences

1

It would be much better to write proper checks or just call functions that do so.

2

Add in an idea that would obviously be adopted everywhere, and the allure of a billion dollar idea overrides sanity checks.

3

The anecdotal reason (from reddit[1]) was that it would have broken to much third party code doing checks for Windows 95/98.

4

You need to justify characterizing your values in that way, which means either explicit range checks and assertions, or otherwise deriving them from something that applies that guarantee in turn.

5

When there's no solution, you want relaxed checks the allow non-satisfying solutions to get through after not-too-many-retries (so the algorithm can terminate).

6

Whatever happened to the idea that a program that reads data checks to see if the data is okay and makes sure that bad data can't cause the program to hurt anything?

7

The operator is a shortcut for simple scenarios, but in this case if a decision has to be made then you should be handling the null checks yourself and making those decisions explicitly.

8

My bank's native app is the only way I can deposit my checks and the web site does not offer this functionality.

9

Critical checks run in background as developer modifies the software.

10

Autoconf checks for api 'usability' such as 'hey in 1981 some unused api since 1982 had a bug in foobar do we have that bug?'.

11

Even highly-optimized systems such as yours could benefit from rigorously-verified systems maybe running same synthesis or checks overnight as a check against faster, possibly buggy implementations you use for iterations.

12

Presumably fails with duplicate content checks.

Quote examples

1

And all this effort just to add "another signal" to the pile of checks we already do...

2

(note: what happens if you accidentily call that function on a entity_id for which no health_components entry exists?) I work with Unity engine (which uses exactly that model), and in good code these problems don't arise — or, rather, these checks are meaningful and actually represent the logic, rather then being "unhandy syntax requisite".

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use checks in a sentence?

It would be much better to write proper checks or just call functions that do so.

What does checks mean?

An inspection or examination.

What part of speech is checks?

checks is commonly used as noun.