Check and Try

Check

Check verb - To be in agreement on every point.

Try is a synonym for check in process topic. In some cases you can use "Try" instead the word "Check" as a verb or a noun, when it comes to topics like inspect, investigate.

Try

Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.

Check is a synonym for try in process topic. Sometimes you can use "Check" instead the word "Try" as a verb or a noun, if it concerns topics such as investigate, experiment.

Nearby Words: tried, trying

How words are described

good good check good try
special special check special try
usual usual check usual try
proper proper check proper try
Other adjectives: single, deep, small, entire, real, big, huge, final, last.

Common collocations

name check name try name
time check time try time
game check game try game
door check door try door
Other words: hands, times.

Both words in one sentence

  • In those cases you can fail the check and try again after boosting that skill and the person doesn't even seem to find it odd that you were less eloquent before reading a magazine and putting on leopard-print nightwear.
    Source: NPC Amnesia
  • Film / Jeepers Creepers The cops, while not entirely believing of Darry's story, do send a team out to the old church to check it out, and the Poho police at the end try their hardest to try and take the Creeper down.
  • Similarly, whenever the DM makes a hidden roll or asks for a spot or listen check (that they fail), the players will assume something is going on and, if they're bad metagamers, try to act on it.
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