checklist

English

Etymology

From check +‎ list.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛklɪst/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Noun

checklist (plural checklists)

1. A list of tasks to be completed, names to be consulted, conditions to be verified and similar.
2. (taxonomy) 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) (stugatʻertʻ)
• 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
• Ukrainian: контро́льний спи́сок m (kontrólʹnyj spýsok)

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