The difference between Check out and Die

When used as verbs, check out means to confirm and pay for goods and services at a facility (e.g.: supermarket, online store, hotel) when leaving, whereas die means to stop living.

Die is also noun with the meaning: the cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.

check bellow for the other definitions of Check out and Die

  1. Check out as a verb (intransitive):

    To confirm and pay for goods and services at a facility (e.g.: supermarket, online store, hotel) when leaving.

    Examples:

    "Be sure to check out of the hotel before noon."

    "I'm done shopping, so I'll go check out now."

  2. Check out as a verb (transitive):

    To withdraw (an item), as from a library, and have the withdrawal recorded.

    Examples:

    "He checked his favorite mystery out for the twenty-third time."

  3. Check out as a verb (transitive):

    To record (someone) as leaving the premises or as taking something therefrom, as from a library or shop.

    Examples:

    "The desk clerk checked out the family that had been staying in room 322."

    "The library assistant was checking people out."

  4. Check out as a verb (transitive):

    To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision.

    Examples:

    "He was hanging out at the beach, checking out the young women in bikinis."

    "He checked out the rumor, and managed to verify that it was true."

    "'Check it out! Best prices in town."

    "'Check ''this'' out! They just arrested the Mayor!"

    "When you're there, check out the Cheddar Cheese Museum! It's a hoot!"

    "'Check us out on the Web at en.wiktionary.org!"

    "I don't know which gym to join, so I'm going to stop by both this weekend to check them out."

  5. Check out as a verb (transitive, computing):

    To obtain source code from a repository.

  6. Check out as a verb (intransitive):

    To become disinterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.

  7. Check out as a verb (intransitive):

    To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive.

  8. Check out as a verb (intransitive):

    To leave in a hurry.

  9. Check out as a verb (intransitive, euphemistic, by extension):

    To die.

  10. Check out as a verb (intransitive):

    To prove (after an investigation) to be the case / in order.

    Examples:

    "The first two leads check out; I'll assume the third one is also valid."

    "Their stories checked out."

  1. Die as a verb (intransitive):

    To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. or the sciences:}} :

    Examples:

    "He died of embarrassment."

    "He died from heart failure."

    "He died for the one he loved."

    "She died with dignity."

  2. Die as a verb (transitive):

    To stop living and undergo (a specified death).

    Examples:

    "He died a hero's death."

    "They died a thousand deaths."

  3. Die as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

    To yearn intensely.

    Examples:

    "I'm dying for a packet of crisps."

    "I'm dying for a piss."

  4. Die as a verb (intransitive):

    To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.

    Examples:

    "The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother."

  5. Die as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

    To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

    Examples:

    "He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him."

  6. Die as a verb (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic):

    To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

    Examples:

    "If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die."

  7. Die as a verb (figurative, intransitive, hyperbolic):

    To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.

    Examples:

    "When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died."

  8. Die as a verb (intransitive, of a, machine):

    To stop working, to break down.

    Examples:

    "My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning."

  9. Die as a verb (intransitive, of a, computer program):

    To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).

  10. Die as a verb:

    To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.

  11. Die as a verb:

    To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

  12. Die as a verb (often with "to"):

    To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.

    Examples:

    "to die to pleasure or to sin"

  13. Die as a verb (intransitive, video games):

    To be killed by an enemy. Usually followed by to or another preposition.

    Examples:

    "I can't believe I just died to a squirrel!"

  14. Die as a verb (architecture):

    To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

  15. Die as a verb:

    To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

  16. Die as a verb (of a stand-up comedian or a joke):

    To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

    Examples:

    "Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal..."

  1. Die as a noun:

    The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.

  2. Die as a noun:

    A device for cutting into a specified shape.

  3. Die as a noun:

    A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)

  4. Die as a noun:

    A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.

  5. Die as a noun:

    An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.

  6. Die as a noun (electronics):

    (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.

  7. Die as a noun:

    Any small cubical or square body.

  1. Die as a noun:

    A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.

  2. Die as a noun (obsolete):

    That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.

  3. Die as a noun (electronics):

    (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.

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