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Checker
//ˈtʃɛkə// noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who or that which checks or verifies something.
"So, keep in mind that Microsoft Word’s Spelling tool is as much a “typo” tool as a checker of spelling."
- 2 A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts), or certain other table games such as backgammon.
- 3 The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis
- 4 one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers wordnet
- 5 One who makes a check mark.
""Essentially," said a senior vice president of the FHLBB of Dallas, "we were checkers of boxes.""
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- 6 A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
- 7 one who checks the correctness of something wordnet
- 8 The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
"There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow."
- 9 An individual square appearing in such a pattern.
- 10 an attendant who checks coats or baggage wordnet
- 11 One who hinders or stops something.
Verb
- 1 To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard. transitive
- 2 variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns wordnet
- 3 To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard. intransitive
- 4 mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on wordnet
Etymology
Etymology 1
From check + -er.
Etymology 2
From Middle English cheker, aphetic from Anglo-Norman escheker (“chessboard”), from Latin scaccarium, thus ultimately morpheme-for-morpheme cognate to etymology 1.
Etymology 3
From Middle English cheker, aphetic from Anglo-Norman escheker (“chessboard”), from Latin scaccarium, thus ultimately morpheme-for-morpheme cognate to etymology 1.
Etymology 4
Alteration of chequer.
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