checker
IPA: tʃˈɛkɝ
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).
- 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
- (transitive) To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
- (intransitive) To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
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Examples of "checker" in Sentences
- The bikini is a checkered one.
- The floor is of marble, and a checkered one.
- The floor is of marble, and a checkered one at that.
- As for the race, the checkered flag flew shortly thereafter.
- It has had a checkered history in the Anglican articles of faith.
- The man on the left is wearing a checkered shirt with a rain jacket.
- The angles of the checkered pattern change to elongated diamond shapes.
- It was checkered fore and aft of the breech and tipped with white metal.
- The Checkered Giant is outweighed by the Giant Chinchilla and Flemish Giant.
- Billy Boat was scored as the leader, and took the checkered flag as the winner.