checkpoint
151
3.4
- noun
- /ˈtʃɛkˌpɔɪnt/
:
puesto de control
- Then they left the coastline and were soon passing through a security checkpoint near a lagoon.
- a security checkpoint
- a border checkpoint
- pass through checkpoints
So they stopped the bus at this checkpoint before they could get into town.
- So they stopped the bus at this checkpoint before they could get into town.
- I've heard a checkpoint, a police checkpoint.
- But the first checkpoint in the first route is like is not that far off.
- So a DUI checkpoint and its purpose is to be preventative.
- So Add all those together, you're working alone on the mountains, going from checkpoint to checkpoint, and you have to make the times.
- And it, it again, it reduces everything to a series of checkpoints before which you have no right to talk.
- Chicago, Seattle, all throughout California there are pictures and videos of police checkpoints near where my parents live every week.
- And so the bus drives along the winding path of the wall and it passes through a checkpoint.
- But so the advantage of the narrow track was to avoid tolls and duties and checkpoints on on the way.
- He was there because his service side vest failed to detonate when he walked to a police checkpoint.
- I just like, you know, do my, my ID, that's how I get through the TSA checkpoint is, you know, I, I, I do it using Apple Pay, right?
- Were were stopped by a PLO militia checkpoint and they looked at my brother and said, oh, that's a nice looking watch.
- And Russians head division met him on the other side at at a crossing called Checkpoint Charlie and.
Examples
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And there's a military checkpoint on the way out of town.
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Please have your boarding passes ready before entering the security checkpoint...
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So they stopped the bus at this checkpoint before they could get into town.
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I was stopped at a checkpoint, and they said, "show us your identity card."
Academic text (2009) -
Why would there be a checkpoint at an abandoned town?
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The new guards did not let her pass the checkpoint because she could not produce an ID.
Academic text (2009) -
As they pass a police checkpoint, we notice the identity of the man in the green scrubs.
Fiction book (2002) -
The attendants at the security checkpoint look up at the monitor as someone enters the corridor.
Fiction book (1991) -
So they roll into Friedrich Strasse towards Checkpoint Charlie, the main American army border crossing.
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The security guard checked each vehicle at the checkpoint before allowing them to enter the stadium.
Synonyms
41
2.8
A barrier on a road that stops and checks vehicles
How Strict
151
3.4
2
8.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Checkpoint comes from the two parts check ('to stop and inspect') and point ('place'), so it is a 'place to stop and be checked'.