checker

Alternative forms

 * (in certain senses only)

Noun

 * 1) One who or that which checks or verifies something.
 * 2) One who makes a check mark.
 * 3) 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.
 * 1) One who hinders or stops something.
 * There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow.
 * 1) One who hinders or stops something.
 * 1) One who hinders or stops something.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: проверител
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: verificador, verificadora
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish: ,


 * Bulgarian: касиерка, касиер
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Russian: ,

Etymology 2
From, aphetic from , from , thus ultimately morpheme-for-morpheme cognate to etymology 1.

Noun

 * 1) A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts).
 * 2) A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
 * 3) An individual square appearing in such a pattern.

Verb



 * 1)  To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
 * 2)  To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.

Etymology 3
Alteration of.

Noun

 * 1) The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree,, syn.

Usage notes

 * Almost always spelled chequer, because the tree itself is native to areas where that spelling is used, and is pretty much unknown in areas that use the other spelling.

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to check, verify
 * 2)  to bump fists