checker
English
Alternative forms
- chequer (in certain senses only)
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
checker (plural checkers)
- One who checks something.
- 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.
Translations
One who checks 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)
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Verb

A flag with a checker pattern
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.
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʃɛ.ke/
Verb
checker
Conjugation
Conjugation of checker (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | checker | avoir checké | |||||
| gerund | en checkant | en ayant checké | |||||
| present participle | checkant /tʃɛ.kɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | checké /tʃɛ.ke/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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 historic1 | 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 | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | checke /tʃɛk/ |
checkes /tʃɛk/ |
checke /tʃɛk/ |
checkions /tʃɛ.kjɔ̃/ |
checkiez /tʃɛ.kje/ |
checkent /tʃɛk/ |
| imperfect1 | checkasse /tʃɛ.kas/ |
checkasses /tʃɛ.kas/ |
checkât /tʃɛ.ka/ |
checkassions /tʃɛ.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
checkassiez /tʃɛ.ka.sje/ |
checkassent /tʃɛ.kas/ | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | checke /tʃɛk/ |
— | checkons /tʃɛ.kɔ̃/ |
checkez /tʃɛ.ke/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
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