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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 baggageplay

2. one who checks the correctness of somethingplay

3. one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkersplay

  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 onplay

2. variegate with different colors, shades, or patternsplay

  Familiarity information: CHECKER used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHECKER (noun)


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)


CHECKER (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they checker  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it checkers  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: checkered  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: checkered  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: checkering  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

check; checker; chequer

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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