Check
Check verb - To be in agreement on every point.
Grade
Grade verb - To arrange or assign according to type.
How words are described
| good | good check | good grade |
| high | high check | high grade |
| full | full check | full grade |
| special | special check | special grade |
| Other adjectives: single, entire, real, bad, medical. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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George Strait's "Check Yes or No", which starts out "It started way back in third grade/I used to sit beside Emmy Lou Hayes..." and winds up twenty years later with the two married.
Source: Childhood Friend Romance -
Check. Lack of unified national infrastructure and scattered city-states that are operating largely autonomously from any federal government while being run by criminal warlords with military-grade firepower?
- In the song "Check Yes Or No" by George Strait, the main character, in third grade, becomes friends with a girl, and in class she passes him a note.
Source: Passing Notes in Class
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Grade or Check. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/check/grade.
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