check up

vérifier, surveiller

Examiner une situation ou aller voir quelqu’un pour s’assurer que tout va bien.

En anglais simple : You look into a situation or visit someone to make sure everything is all right.

• Please check up on the children.
• She checked up on the repairs yesterday.
• Are you checking up on me again?

Comment l'utiliser : check up on someone/something (I called to check up on my grandmother.)

Synonymes : check, look into

Expressions courantes : check up on someone, check up on something

vérifier

Examiner des informations ou des chiffres pour s’assurer qu’ils sont exacts.

En anglais simple : You examine information or numbers to make sure they are correct.

• Please check up these figures.
• She checked up the accounts carefully.
• We need to check up the totals again.

Comment l'utiliser : check up something (The clerk checked up the totals before sending the bill.)

Synonymes : verify, check

Expressions courantes : check up figures, check up accounts

concorder

Pour une information, sembler juste parce qu’elle correspond à d’autres faits connus.

En anglais simple : Information seems correct because it agrees with other known facts.

• The numbers check up with our data.
• Her story checked up with the evidence.
• Does his account check up with yours?

Comment l'utiliser : check up with something (His account checks up with the records.)

Synonymes : check out, agree

Expressions courantes : check up with facts, check up with records