unchecked

动词 v. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. simple past and past participle of uncheck. form-of,participle,past
形容词 adj.
  1. Unrestrained, not held back. not-comparable
    — unchecked ambition
  2. Not examined for accuracy, efficiency, etc. not-comparable
    — unchecked writings
  3. Of a check box: not checked (ticked or enabled). not-comparable
    — This pseudocode is unambiguous if we know that the previous state of all the boxes is "unchecked." Because we can't be sure of that in buggy code, a better model might be: […]
  4. Of a square: part of only one entry (that is, across or down, but not both). not-comparable
    — If there are W#95;1 "unchecked" whites (that is, those which enter into the solution of one clue only), and W#95;2 "checked" whites (those which enter into the solution of two clues), then the mean word length will be (W#95;1#43;2W#95;2)#47;C, where C is the number of clues. […] Acceptable (if unwelcome) difficulties arise when the initial letters of words occupy unchecked squares, because no hint then derives from other clues as to how that word will start. In six consecutive crossword puzzles in The Times, 16 per cent of the words had unchecked initial letters.

词形变化

uncheckt alternative,obsolete uncheckt alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English checked
English unchecked
From un- + checked.
词源 2
See uncheck.
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