"backcheck" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: backchecks [plural]
Etymology: back + check Etymology templates: {{compound|en|back|check}} back + check Head templates: {{en-noun}} backcheck (plural backchecks)
  1. The act of backchecking.
    Sense id: en-backcheck-en-noun-QliJS5ne

Verb [English]

Forms: backchecks [present, singular, third-person], backchecking [participle, present], backchecked [participle, past], backchecked [past]
Etymology: back + check Etymology templates: {{compound|en|back|check}} back + check Head templates: {{en-verb}} backcheck (third-person singular simple present backchecks, present participle backchecking, simple past and past participle backchecked)
  1. (transitive, ice hockey) To check (an opposing player) while skating toward or near one's own goal. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Ice hockey
    Sense id: en-backcheck-en-verb-7bAcATsJ Topics: hobbies, ice-hockey, lifestyle, skating, sports
  2. (intransitive, ice hockey) To engage in checking while skating toward or near one's own goal. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Ice hockey
    Sense id: en-backcheck-en-verb-yPPMjvO0 Topics: hobbies, ice-hockey, lifestyle, skating, sports
  3. (quality control) To check someone else's work after they have completed it, in a backward-looking type of review or audit, especially one that runs on a backchannel workflow in parallel with the main workflow (and thus is not a rate-determining or throughput-bottlenecking step).
    Sense id: en-backcheck-en-verb-i9LHj~EN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 20 18 35
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: backchecker

Inflected forms

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