Check
Check noun - The amount owed at a bar or restaurant or the slip of paper stating the amount.
Usage example: diners at that temple of gastronomy often look shocked when they receive the check
Figure and check are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Figure" instead the word "Check" as a verb or a noun.
Figure
Figure noun - The amount of money that is demanded as payment for something.
Usage example: a number of the paintings at the auction sold at figures far higher than had been estimated
Check and figure are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Check" instead the word "Figure" as a verb or a noun.
How words are described
| good | good check | good figure |
| single | single check | single figure |
| popular | popular check | popular figure |
| small | small check | small figure |
| Other adjectives: powerful, real, large, big, little, important. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In Sahara (2005), there's a scene where Dirk and Al are having lunch, and Al just wants to get the check and can't figure out how to say it in French.
Source: Check, Please! -
Check. An alternate, very disturbing version of the fifth opening that features disembodied hands grabbing at the (non-live action) nude figure of the same character as she struggles to run away?
Source: Light Novel / Bakemonogatari - If I strike a dark figure while trying to escape from a menacing being, I will not check and make sure the figure is okay.
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Figure and Check. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/check/figure
Check & Figure. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/check/figure>.
Figure or Check. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/check/figure.
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