double-checking
present participle ofdouble-check
double-check
verb[T]
uk/ˌdʌb.əlˈtʃek/us/ˌdʌb.əlˈtʃek/If you double-check something, you makecertainit iscorrectorsafe, usually byexaminingit again.
Testing, checking and experimenting
- artefact
- assay
- calibrate
- calibration
- check out
- crucible
- experimenter
- factorial
- feeler
- inoculate
- inoculation
- inspect
- putsomethingto the testidiom
- recheck
- reinspect
- reinspection
- resample
- screening
- trysomethingout
- welfare check
Examplesofdouble-checking
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
To start with, empirical research, understood in the tradition of ethnographic fieldwork, requires an enormous amount of checking, cross-checking anddouble-checking(the sources of) data.
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Pharmacist-led reviews and interventions based on information technology are both conceptuallydouble-checkingmechanisms either by computer or by a human.
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Audit contains within it a process for changing the existing way of doing things after the first cycle anddouble-checkingthat the changes worked on the next cycle.
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The vowel segment was identified by inspection of changes of this visual representation as well as bydouble-checkingthe relevant acoustic changes.
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Inter-rater reliability was calculated by the researchersdouble-checking30 per cent of their coded transcriptions and applying the following formula: number of agreements divided by number of agreements plus disagreements.
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Interrater reliability was calculated by the researchersdouble-checking30 % of their coded transcriptions and applying the following formula : number of agreements divided by number of agreements plus disagreements.
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As we all know, thedouble-checkingsystem is no longer in operation.
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This in turn will reduce the timescale for the actual registration of companies and remove thedouble-checkingthat in practice results from the present arrangements.
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Is not this second-guessing anddouble-checkingexactly what we need to ensure safety for the public?
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Some specific points have been made, for example about thedouble-checkingsurveillance which will be in operation in 2008.
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Certainly, they needdouble-checkingand cross-checking.
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The normal process ofdouble-checkingand consultation was short-circuited in a rush to issue the press release.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A trainee driver and their minder thought they heard the right-away buzzer and proceeded withoutdouble-checkingthe door open light had gone out.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When the mark submits the form (withoutdouble-checkingthe website address), the information is sent to the swindler.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There may or may not be a conductor later ondouble-checkingthat correct tickets are actually held.
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- dive-bombed
- dive-bombed
- dive-bomber
- dive-bomber
- dive-bombing
- dive-bombing
- dive deep
- dive-deep
- dive-in-dive-into
- dive in/dive into something
- dive in/dive into sth
- dive-in-dive-into-sth
- diver
- diverge
- diverged
- divergence
- divergence of interest
- divergence of opinion
- divergence of view
- divergent
- divergent interests
- divergent plate boundary
- divergent-plate-boundary
- divergent series
- divergent-series