šakki — meaning in English

English meaning

• bag noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
• check noun An inspection to make sure something is correct, safe, or working.
• chess noun A strategy board game for two players, played on a chequered board with sixteen pieces per side, aiming to trap (checkmate) the opponent's king.
• crew noun A group of people working together, especially those operating a ship, aircraft, or production.
• poke verb To prod or jab something with a finger or object.
• rout noun A crushing, disorganized defeat.
• sack noun A large bag, typically of coarse material, used for carrying or storing bulk goods.

Senses

šakki is used for these senses in English:

• bag (countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.
• check (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece. [from 14th c.]
• chess A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
• crew A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
• crew (informal, often, derogatory) A close group of friends.
• gunny sack A sack made from burlap, used for agricultural produce.
• poke (archaic, or, Appalachia) A sack or bag. [from early 13th c.]
• rout (countable) A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the) , the common people as a group, the rabble.

bag — full definition

1. noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
2. verb To put something into a bag, or more broadly, to succeed in getting or catching something.

check — full definition

1. noun An inspection to make sure something is correct, safe, or working.
2. noun A written order instructing a bank to pay a stated sum (spelled "cheque" in British English).
3. noun The bill for a meal, especially in a restaurant.
4. noun In chess, a position where the king is under direct threat of capture.
5. verb To examine or verify something.

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