checker
Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɛkə/
The English word “checker” has 10 meanings listed here.
noun
- One who or that which checks or verifies something.
- One who makes a check mark.
- The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
- One who hinders or stops something.
- A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts), or certain other table games such as backgammon.
- A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
- An individual square appearing in such a pattern.
- The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis
verb
- To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
- To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
Etymology
From check + -er.
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