What does checker mean?
Definitions for checker
ˈtʃɛk ərcheck·er
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word checker.
Princeton's WordNet
checkernoun
an attendant who checks coats or baggage
checkernoun
one who checks the correctness of something
checker, chequerverb
one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers
check, checker, chequerverb
mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on
checker, chequerverb
variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns
Wiktionary
checkernoun
One who checks something.
checkernoun
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.
checkernoun
A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts).
checkerverb
To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark spots, like a checkerboard.
checkerverb
To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark spots, like a checkerboard.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Checker, Checker-work
Work varied alternately as to its colours or materials.
Nets of checker-work and wreaths of chain-work for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars. 1 Kings, vii. 17.
To Checker, To Chequerverb
To variegate or diversify, in the manner of a chess-board, with alternate colours, or with darker and brighter parts.
Etymology: from echecs, chess, Fr.
The grey-ey’d morn smiles on the frowning night,
Check’ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind,
And make a checquer’d shadow on the ground. William Shakespeare.As the snake roll’d in the flow’ry bank,
With shining checker’d slough doth sting a child,
That for the beauty thinks it excellent. William Shakespeare, Hen. VI.The wealthy spring yet never bore
That sweet, nor dainty flower,
That damask’d not the checker’d floor
Of Cynthia’s summer bower. Michael Drayton, Cynthia.Many a youth and many a maid,
Dancing in the checker’d shade. John Milton.In the chess-board, the use of each chess-man is determined only within that chequered piece of wood. John Locke.
In our present condition, which is a middle state, our minds are, as it were, chequered with truth and falsehood. Addison.
The ocean intermixing with the land, so as to checker it into earth and water. John Woodward, Natural History.
Here waving groves a checker’d scene display,
And part admit, and part exclude the day. Alexander Pope.
ChatGPT
checker
A checker is a person or device that examines or verifies something for accuracy or quality. It can also refer to one of the round game pieces used in the game of checkers, or to a pattern of squares, typically used in clothing or other fabrics.
Webster Dictionary
Checkerverb
one who checks
Checkernoun
to mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors
Checkernoun
to variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity
Checkerverb
a piece in the game of draughts or checkers
Checkerverb
a pattern in checks; a single check
Checkerverb
checkerwork
Etymology: [OF. eschequier. See Checker, v. t.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of checker in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of checker in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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Way back in 2017 Trump -- without any proof -- suggested that former President Barack Obama had ordered wiretaps of Trump Tower phones during the 2016 campaign. And again earlier this year, President Trump insisted that a filing by John Durham confirmed the spying. It did not. As Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler put it last month :.
Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.
Meditating is like your brain's virus checker, detecting toxic stress and blocking its effects on your physical and emotional health.
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