Checker

Definitions

1. One who or that which checks or verifies something.
2. A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts), or certain other table games such as backgammon.
3. The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis
4. One who makes a check mark.
5. A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
6. The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
7. An individual square appearing in such a pattern.
8. One who hinders or stops something.

Equivalents

Examples

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

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

“There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow.”

“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.”

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