checkup

See also: check-up and check up

English

Alternative forms

• check-up

Etymology

Deverbal from check up.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛkʌp/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

checkup (plural checkups)

1. A routine visit to the doctor, dentist, or the like.

   The appointment was just for a checkup.

2. A routine inspection.

   I took my car in for an annual checkup.

Derived terms

• checkup from the neck up

Translations

physical checkup

Bulgarian: пре́глед (bg) m (prégled) Catalan: revisió mèdica f Finnish: tarkastus (fi) French: check-up (fr) m, bilan de santé (fr) m German: Kontrolle (de) f, ärztliche Untersuchung f, Check-up m or f Greek: τσεκάπ (el) n (tsekáp) Hungarian: kontrollvizsgálat (hu), kivizsgálás (hu) Irish: scrúdú sláinte m Malayalam: പരിശോധന (ml) (pariśōdhana) Polish: wizyta kontrolna f, kontrola (pl) f, kontrolne badanie lekarskie n Portuguese: check-up (pt) m, checkup m, checape (pt) m Russian: осмо́тр (ru) m (osmótr), медосмо́тр (ru) m (medosmótr) (medical checkup) Spanish: chequeo (es) m, control (es) m Turkish: sağlık yoklaması Vietnamese: khám bệnh (vi) Welsh: archwiliad m

routine inspection

Bulgarian: прове́рка (bg) f (provérka) Finnish: tarkistus (fi), tarkastus (fi), katsastus (fi) German: Kontrolle (de) f, Durchsicht (de) f, Kontrolluntersuchung f, Überprüfung (de) f Greek: έλεγχος ρουτίνας (élenchos routínas) Hungarian: ellenőrzés (hu), felülvizsgálat (hu) Malayalam: പരിശോധന (ml) (pariśōdhana) Polish: przegląd (pl) m Russian: прове́рка (ru) f (provérka), осмо́тр (ru) m (osmótr) Turkish: araştırma (tr), çekap (tr), inceleme (tr)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃeˈka.pi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃeˈka.pi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃeˈka.pe/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɨˈka.pɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɨˈka.pɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɨˈka.pɨ/

Noun

checkup m (plural checkups)

1. alternative spelling of check-up

Further reading

• “checkup”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025