Check mark?

} When you place a v-shaped mark in a check box, you use a glyph } resembling a square root mark.
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} What's the name(s) of that mark?
(1) Check mark.
(2) Check.
(3) X.

R. J. Valentine

[nq:1](3) X.[/nq]
Why X? We're talking about the V-shaped glyph.

Soren O

[nq:1]When you place a v-shaped mark in a check box, you use a glyph resembling a square root mark. What's the name(s) of that mark? Soren O[/nq]
A tick.
Regards,
Arfur

[nq:1]A tick.[/nq]
Thanks

Soren O

[nq:2]When you place a v-shaped mark in a check box, ... mark. What's the name(s) of that mark? Soren O[/nq]
[nq:1]A tick.[/nq]
Primarily a British word in that context. On hearing 'tick', thoughts of a nasty little bloodsucker would come to most American minds. We say 'check mark' for the BrE 'tick'.

Charles Riggs
There are no accented letters in my email address

[nq:2]A tick.[/nq]
[nq:1]Thanks Soren O[/nq]
I, like R J Valentine, would call it a "check mark" or a "check." I wouldn't call it an "X." I wouldn't call it a "tick," either, although that term is part of my recognition vocabulary.

Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com

[nq:2]A tick.[/nq]
[nq:1]Primarily a British word in that context. On hearing 'tick', thoughts of a nasty little bloodsucker would come to most American minds. We say 'check mark' for the BrE 'tick'. Charles Riggs[/nq]
I hadn't realised that there's a pondial difference in this regard. As a matter of interest, what would the verb be in America that corresponds to a British teacher "ticking

[nq:1]I hadn't realised that there's a pondial difference in this regard. As a matter of interest, what would the verb be in America that corresponds to a British teacher "ticking" a correct answer?[/nq]
What does it mean? Making a check mark? Or being engaged in the overall process of correcting papers? Or other?
"Checking" is not usually used to mean "making a check mark" because it has

[nq:2]I hadn't realised that there's a pondial difference in this ... that corresponds to a British teacher "ticking" a correct answer?[/nq]
[nq:1]What does it mean? Making a check mark? Or being engaged in the overall process of correcting papers? Or other? ... it has the wider connotation of "evaluating, examining." Maybe what you want is "marking." "I marked that answer wrong because..."[/n

[nq:2]I hadn't realised that there's a pondial difference in this ... that corresponds to a British teacher "ticking" a correct answer?[/nq]
[nq:1]What does it mean? Making a check mark? Or being engaged in the overall process of correcting papers? Or other?[/nq]
It means writing a "tick mark" by all or part of a student's work to indicate that is correct, or at least approved of. I dare s