Checker
['tʃekə] or ['tʃɛkɚ]
Definition
(noun.) one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers.
(noun.) one who checks the correctness of something.
(noun.) an attendant who checks coats or baggage.
(verb.) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns.
Editor: Val--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) One who checks.
(n.) To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.
(n.) To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity.
(v. t.) A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.
(v. t.) A pattern in checks; a single check.
(v. t.) Checkerwork.
Checker: Micawber
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Variegate, diversify.
Typed by Leigh
Definition
See Chequer.
Typist: Yvette
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of playing checkers, you will be involved in difficulties of a serious character, and strange people will come into your life, working you harm. To dream that you win the game, you will succeed in some doubtful enterprise.
Editor: Wallace
Examples
- She often says, when the letter is first opened, 'Well, Hetty, now I think you will be put to it to make out all that checker-work'don't you, ma'am? Jane Austen. Emma.
- Four chambers, C, E, E′, C′, are filled with fire brick loosely stacked with spaces between, in checker-work style. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Mother, please say that I am to go, urged Letty, whose life was much checkered by resistance to her depreciation as a girl. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But without knowledge of it that progress will be checkered and perhaps futile. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was bare and cool, with a table covered with a coarse checkered cloth and adorned by a bottle of pickles and a blueberry pie under a cage. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
Editor: Tamara