VERB
- check a second time
- oppose or check by a counteraction
NOUN
- something that checks the correctness of a previous check
- a check that restrains another check
How To Use countercheck In A Sentence
- Vv'hich is agreeable to the Opinion of all the Bifcoverers of that Tiiue, as to the Eaftern Tide from the Proportion that the great Spaces or Seas which were to receive it bore to the Inlets by which it came in, that the Force of fuch Tide muft be confuted in fuch Seas, and there - fore expected to meet with a Tide from Weltward, v/liich counterchecked the Eaftern Tide. The great probability of a North West Passage: deduced from observations on the letter of Admiral de Fonte, who sailed from the Callao of Lima on the discovery of a communication between the South Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Proving the authenticity of th
- If again, it was not well cut, he would answer, I spake not true: this is called the reproof valiant: if again, it was not well cut, he would say, I lie: this is called the countercheck quarrelsome: and so to the lie circumstantial, and the lie direct. Act V. Scene IV. As You Like It
- Also, as we were rowing into a very great sound lying south-west from whence these whales came, upon the sudden there came a violent countercheck of a tide from the south-west against the flood which we came with, not knowing from whence it was maintained. The North-West Passage
- This is established, for it has been checked and counterchecked on innumerable occasions. Ilya Mechnikov - Nobel Lecture
- When two time travelers fight over something, they employ multitudes of selves to check and countercheck each other until there are swarms of you around.
- Party A who disagrees with it are responsible for expenditure while the concealed engineering is eligible after its countercheck.
- But while this game of check and countercheck was being played, the On the Trail of Grant and Lee
- The first, the retort courteous; the second, the quip modest; the third, the reply churlish; the fourth, the reproof valiant; the fifth, the countercheck quarrelsome; the sixth, the lie with circumstance; the seventh, the lie direct. Act V. Scene IV. As You Like It
- Legacy, _ which "he wrote," he says, "on the ocean, when every line was wet with a surge, and every humorous passion counterchecked with Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
- You had better countercheck that last estimate.