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CHECKER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does checker mean?
• CHECKER (noun)
The noun CHECKER has 3 senses:
1. an attendant who checks coats or baggage
2. one who checks the correctness of something
3. one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers
Familiarity information: CHECKER used as a noun is uncommon.
• CHECKER (verb)
The verb CHECKER has 2 senses:
1. mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on
2. variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns
Familiarity information: CHECKER used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An attendant who checks coats or baggage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("checker" is a kind of...):
attendant; attender; tender (someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "checker"):
check girl; hatcheck girl (a female checker)
Derivation:
check (hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping)
Sense 2
Meaning:
One who checks the correctness of something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("checker" is a kind of...):
examiner; inspector (an investigator who observes carefully)
Derivation:
check (examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition)
Sense 3
Meaning:
One of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
checker; chequer
Hypernyms ("checker" is a kind of...):
man; piece (game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games)
Domain category:
checkers; draughts (a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "checker"):
king (a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: checkered
Past participle: checkered
-ing form: checkering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
Hypernyms (to "checker" is one way to...):
draw (represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
checker; chequer
Hypernyms (to "checker" is one way to...):
motley; variegate; vary (make something more diverse and varied)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
Before I could reply that he was my neighbor dinner was announced; wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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