checker
English
Alternative forms
- chequer (in certain senses only)
Noun
checker (plural checkers)
- One who checks or verifies something.
- One who makes a check mark.
- 1989, M. Manfred Fabritius, William Borges, Saving the Savings and Loan
- "Essentially," said a senior vice president of the FHLBB of Dallas, "we were checkers of boxes."
- 1989, M. Manfred Fabritius, William Borges, Saving the Savings and Loan
- 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.
- One who hinders or stops something.
Translations
One who checks or verifies something
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Etymology 2
Aphetic from Anglo-Norman escheker (“chessboard”), from Medieval Latin scaccarium, thus ultimately morpheme-for-morpheme cognate to etymology 1.
Noun
checker (plural checkers)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
checker (third-person singular simple present checkers, present participle checkering, simple past and past participle checkered)
- (transitive) To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
- (intransitive) To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
Etymology 3
Alteration of chequer.
Noun
checker (plural checkers)
- The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis
Usage notes
- Almost always spelled chequer, because the tree itself is native to areas where that spelling is used, and is pretty much unknown in areas that use the other spelling.
Derived terms
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʃɛ.ke/
Conjugation
Conjugation of checker (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle | checkant /tʃɛ.kɑ̃/ | ||||||
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past participle | checké /tʃɛ.ke/ | ||||||
infinitive | |||||||
simple | checker | ||||||
compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
gerund1 | |||||||
simple | checkant /tʃɛ.kɑ̃/ | ||||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | checke /tʃɛk/ |
checkes /tʃɛk/ |
checke /tʃɛk/ |
checkons /tʃɛ.kɔ̃/ |
checkez /tʃɛ.ke/ |
checkent /tʃɛk/ |
imperfect | checkais /tʃɛ.kɛ/ |
checkais /tʃɛ.kɛ/ |
checkait /tʃɛ.kɛ/ |
checkions /tʃɛ.kjɔ̃/ |
checkiez /tʃɛ.kje/ |
checkaient /tʃɛ.kɛ/ | |
past historic2 | checkai /tʃɛ.ke/ |
checkas /tʃɛ.ka/ |
checka /tʃɛ.ka/ |
checkâmes /tʃɛ.kam/ |
checkâtes /tʃɛ.kat/ |
checkèrent /tʃɛ.kɛʁ/ | |
future | checkerai /tʃɛ.kʁe/ |
checkeras /tʃɛ.kʁa/ |
checkera /tʃɛ.kʁa/ |
checkerons /tʃɛ.kʁɔ̃/ |
checkerez /tʃɛ.kʁe/ |
checkeront /tʃɛ.kʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | checkerais /tʃɛ.kʁɛ/ |
checkerais /tʃɛ.kʁɛ/ |
checkerait /tʃɛ.kʁɛ/ |
checkerions /tʃɛ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
checkeriez /tʃɛ.kə.ʁje/ |
checkeraient /tʃɛ.kʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | checke /tʃɛk/ |
checkes /tʃɛk/ |
checke /tʃɛk/ |
checkions /tʃɛ.kjɔ̃/ |
checkiez /tʃɛ.kje/ |
checkent /tʃɛk/ |
imperfect2 | checkasse /tʃɛ.kas/ |
checkasses /tʃɛ.kas/ |
checkât /tʃɛ.ka/ |
checkassions /tʃɛ.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
checkassiez /tʃɛ.ka.sje/ |
checkassent /tʃɛ.kas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | checke /tʃɛk/ |
— | checkons /tʃɛ.kɔ̃/ |
checkez /tʃɛ.ke/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
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