Crossword clues for checker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Checker \Check"er\ (ch[e^]k"[~e]r), n. [From Check, v. t.] One who checks.
Checker \Check"er\ (ch[e^]k"[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Checkered (ch[e^]k"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Checkering.] [From OF. eschequier a chessboard, F. ['e]chiquier. See Check, n., and cf. 3d Checker.]
To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.
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To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity.
Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood.
--Addison.
Checker \Check"er\, n. [OF. eschequier. See Checker, v. t.]
A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.
A pattern in checks; a single check.
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Checkerwork.
Note: This word is also written chequer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., "game of chess (or checkers);" c.1300, "a chessboard, board with 64 squares for playing chess or similar games; a set of chessmen" a shortening of Old French eschequier "chessboard; a game of chess," from Medieval Latin scaccarium (see check (n.)).\n
\nMeaning "pattern of squares" is late 14c. Meaning "a man or marker in the game of checkers" is from 1864. British prefers chequer. From late 14c. as "a checked design." The word had earlier senses of "table covered with checked cloth for counting" (late 12c. in Anglo-Latin), a sense also in Old French (see checker (n.2)).
"table covered with a checked cloth," specialized sense of checker (n.1), late 14c. (in Anglo-Latin from c.1300); especially a table for counting money or keeping accounts (revenue reckoned with counters); later extended to "the fiscal department of the English Crown; the Exchequer (mid-14c.; in Anglo-Latin from late 12c.).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 One who check something. 2 The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment. Etymology 2
n. A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts). vb. 1 (context transitive English) To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark spots, like a checkerboard. 2 (context intransitive English) To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark spots, like a checkerboard. Etymology 3
n. The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, (taxlink Sorbus terminalis species noshow=1)
WordNet
n. an attendant who checks coats or baggage
one who checks the correctness of something
one of the flat round pieces used in playing checkers
Wikipedia
Checker may refer to:
- Checker Motors Corporation, an automotive industry subcontractor that was once the builder of the Checker taxicab and the Superba and Marathon automobiles
- Checker Taxi, a livery company (taxi service) founded by Morris Markin, that used Checker Taxi Cabs
- Checker Records, a record label
- The action that produces checkering, a surface applied to wooden gunstocks to provide a non-slip grip (see Gunsmith)
- Chubby Checker, an American singer-songwriter best known for popularising "The Twist"
- Check (pattern) a pattern consisting of squares of alternating colors
Usage examples of "checker".
A chicken leg, a meat pasty, half of a baguette, a large chunk of ripe cheese, and a strawberry tart nestled in the checkered napkin beside a bottle of lemonade.
The King in robes of Golde, caused the yoong Damosell that stood before the Queene, to marche forwarde to the third Checker, direct in the first remooue, whereupon immediately there was seene a battaile and Torney, with so swift and sodaine forces, bending themselues to the grounde as it were lying close vpon their Garde, and presently vpon it capering vp with a turne twise aboue ground, one iust opposite against an other, and vpon their downe come withall a turne vpon the toe thrise about.
If the musicke kepte still one time, those eyght vnyforme pawnes did spende the time in marching forwardes into an other checker, neuer comming backe vntill that worthily without touch or appalement of courage, they had leapt vppon the line of that square where was the residence of the Queene, proceeding straight on, vnlesse she tooke a prisoner by a Diagonick line.
Ole Golly were there, because they always spent the evening playing checkers and watching television.
As he unwound the checkered kaffiyeh from his face, they could see he was an American.
Lou would go inside to inspect the plates and bowls and make sure they were lined up on the checkered tablecloth, four squares from the edge, and sometimes when they were only three and a half squares from the edge or there was still a dot of grease on the rim of a melamine plate Stephen would listen to the slaps and the whimpers from inside the house as he lay on his back beside the fire and watched the sparks fly toward the dead moon.
Checker Ory did not recognize, and so she was able to slip past and blend in with a crowd of maintenance workers.
Kadagidi themselves had their doubts about Murini, whose rise within his own clan had been checkered with double-dealing and a far greater affinity for the politics of the south coast than those of the Padi Valley.
I should say a lawn of two different varieties of grass, one pale green, one very dark, and the two seeded in alternate smaller squares, in a checkered effect.
Then, under the stunted palm that grew above the spring, I observed Darg Sih sitting with Gyest, playing one of the southern checker games in the dust, with elegant, certainly stolen, counters of red soapstone and green jade.
Dylan one day designed a star-shaped skully board, where players would be expected to shoot their caps from triangular corners into center stage, as in Chinese checkers, a game which Dylan had been taught in his kindergarten class.
There was a great checkering of light and darkness and the slumbrous sound of water.
The bewtifull and precious Pauement within a checkered compasse going about the same, there was a space of sixtie foure Squadrates of three foote, the dyameter of euerye one: Of the which one was of Iasper, of the colour of Corall, and the other greene, powdered with drops of blood not to bee woorne away: and set togither in manner of a Chesse-boord.
In this, he had made amends for the checkered career of his sire, King Wauk, who had involved himself in matters beyond his abilities with disastrous results.
He still wore jeans and the checkered sneakers but had donned a leather Viking tunic on top, belted at the waist.