checker
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/ˈtʃɛkə/
English
Definitions
noun
- One who checks or verifies something.
- One who makes a check mark.
- 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.”
- One who hinders or stops something.
noun
- A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts).
- A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
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.
noun
- The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis
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