To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory); to tick off (UK), tick (UK), cross off, strike off.
To carry out a decision recorded through the process of checking off an item on a list, including dealing with it, removing it from the possible choices, or removing the not checked items from further consideration.
To deduct union members' dues from their wages.
To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
To decide judicially.
To excel.
A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
A regulating principle.
A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
A normal condition or state of affairs.
A regulation, law, guideline.
An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.