Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To verify the
spelling used in a document for correctness, especially by using aprogram .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word spell-check.
Examples
-
In a day where you use spell-check to proof read your resume and professional correspondence, why wouldn't you do the same as it relates to your digital love life?
Julie Spira: Has Sexting Become Mainstream for Young Women? Julie Spira 2012
-
Editors are supposed to not just click spell-check on MS Word.
Josh Shahryar: Dear Marie Claire and Media: Fat People Are People, Too Josh Shahryar 2010
-
His disregard of language borders on the absurd: In one passage he describes working on a comic "using surrealist methods: automatic writing, found ideas, and even my word processor's spell-check functions to create random word strings with syntax."
Men in Tights, A Man in Heels Jonathan V. Last 2011
-
In a day where you use spell-check to proof read your resume and professional correspondence, why wouldn't you do the same as it relates to your digital love life?
Julie Spira: Has Sexting Become Mainstream for Young Women? Julie Spira 2012
-
Or, if F&S is too cheap for that, has anyone shown you how to run spell-check on what you write?
-
This way it looks much more like a handwritten journal, but i can type it out and even spell-check if i like.
-
My apologies for the spelling errors, my internal spell-check functions poorly late at night.
-
Yes, perhaps you should have spent those FOUR minutes doing a little spell-check?
-
The significant change that computers have wrought upon the culture of spelling has come not via the spell-check function of word processing programs but through the insidious automatization of that function: your computer can now correct you as you type.
A Conversation with Myla Goldberg about Wickett's Remedy 2010
-
Or, if F&S is too cheap for that, has anyone shown you how to run spell-check on what you write?
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.