checker

• chequer (in certain senses only)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɛkə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛkɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɛkə(ɹ)

From check +‎ -er.

checker (plural checkers)

1. One who or that which checks or verifies something.
   • 1992, Neil J. Salkind, Applying Macintosh: Solutions, Ideas, and Tools, Macmillan Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 205:

     So, keep in mind that Microsoft Word’s Spelling tool is as much a “typo” tool as a checker of spelling.

2. One who makes a check mark.
   • 1989, M. Manfred Fabritius, William Borges, Saving the Savings and Loan:

     "Essentially," said a senior vice president of the FHLBB of Dallas, "we were checkers of boxes."

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.

   • 1980, Stephen King, The Mist:

     Bud Brown said something to the checker he was supervising; she had been craning around to see what was happening. She flushed and began to run her calculator again.

4. One who hinders or stops something.

From Middle English cheker, aphetic from Anglo-Norman escheker (“chessboard”), from Latin scaccarium, thus ultimately morpheme-for-morpheme cognate to etymology 1.

checker (plural checkers)

1. A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts), or certain other table games such as backgammon.
2. A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
3. An individual square appearing in such a pattern.

• exchequer

checker (third-person singular simple present checkers, present participle checkering, simple past and past participle checkered)

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

Alteration of chequer.

checker (plural checkers)

1. The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis

• 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.

• checkerberry
• checkerbloom
• checkermallow

• recheck

From English to check.

• IPA^(key): /tʃɛ.ke/ ~ /tʃe.ke/

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checker

1. to check, verify
2. (reflexive, reciprocal, slang) to bump fists

• vérifier
• regarder