checker

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈtʃɛkə/    美 /ˈt͡ʃɛkɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who or that which checks or verifies something.
    — So, keep in mind that Microsoft Word’s Spelling tool is as much a “typo” tool as a checker of spelling.
  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.
    — "Essentially," said a senior vice president of the FHLBB of Dallas, "we were checkers of boxes."
  5. A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
  6. The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
    — There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow.
  7. An individual square appearing in such a pattern.
  8. One who hinders or stops something.
动词 v.
  1. To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard. transitive
  2. To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard. intransitive

词形变化

checkers plural chequer alternative,UK checkers plural chequer alternative,UK checkers present,singular,third-person checkering participle,present checkered participle,past checkered past chequer alternative,UK checkers plural chequer alternative,UK

词汇关系

衍生词
box checker fact checker grammar checker heat checker pecker checker spell checker spell-checker spelling checker typechecker bechecker checkerboard checkerist checkerspot checkerwise checkerwork green-white-checker
相关词
exchequer

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English check
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English checker
From check + -er.
词源 2
From Middle English cheker, aphetic from Anglo-Norman escheker (“chessboard”), from Latin scaccarium, thus ultimately morpheme-for-morpheme cognate to etymology 1.
词源 3
Alteration of chequer.
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