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checklist

noun
/ˈt͡ʃɛklɪst/

Etymology

From check + list.

  1. derived from *leys-✻
  2. inherited from *līstā✻
  3. derived from lista
  4. derived from liste
  5. inherited from līste
  6. inherited from list
  7. compounded as checklist — “check + list”

Definitions

  1. A list of tasks to be completed, names to be consulted, conditions to be verified and…

    A list of tasks to be completed, names to be consulted, conditions to be verified and similar.

  2. An inventory, especially of species.

    • a checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield

  3. To add to a checklist.

    • It was like he was checklisting the steps of brushing your teeth. Everyone knows how to brush your teeth—you do it automatically—so what good would a checklist do?

The neighborhood

Derived

checklister

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for checklist. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA