checklist

checklist

English

Etymology

From check +‎ list.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛklɪst/

Noun

checklist (plural checklists)

1. A list of tasks to be completed, names to be consulted, conditions to be verified and similar.
2. An inventory, especially of species.

   a checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield

Translations

list of things to be verified

Afrikaans: kontrolelys Arabic: قائمة التحقق‎ Armenian: ստուգաթերթ (hy) (stugatʿertʿ) Chinese: Mandarin: 检查清单, 检查表 Dutch: afvinklijst (nl) f, controlelijst (nl) f, checklist (nl) f Finnish: muistilista, tarkastuslista French: liste de contrôle f German: Checkliste (de) f, Kontrollliste (de) f, Prüfliste f Greek: λίστα (el) f (lísta) Icelandic: gátlisti m, gaumlisti m Indonesian: daftar centang Japanese: チェックリスト (ja) (chekkurisuto) Low German: Dutch Low Saxon: kontrolelyste Norwegian: Bokmål: sjekkliste Polish: lista kontrolna f Portuguese: lista de verificação/controle f Russian: контро́льный спи́сок m (kontrólʹnyj spísok), контро́льный пе́речень m (kontrólʹnyj pérečenʹ) Serbo-Croatian: ček-lista f, kontrolna lista, kontrolni popis m Swedish: checklista (sv) c Turkish: doğrulama listesi, kontrol listesi

See also

• punch list
• to-do list

Verb

checklist (third-person singular simple present checklists, present participle checklisting, simple past and past participle checklisted)

1. (transitive) To add to a checklist.
   • 2020, Danielle Ofri, When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error (page 10)

     It was like he was checklisting the steps of brushing your teeth. Everyone knows how to brush your teeth—you do it automatically—so what good would a checklist do?

Anagrams

• chicklets, slick-tech