亚洲网紅露点

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checker

1

[ chek-er ]

noun

  1. a small, usually red or black disk of plastic or wood, used in playing checkers.
  2. checkers,
    1. alsocalledcomma British, draughts [drafts, drahfts]. (used with a singular verb) a game played by two persons, each with 12 playing pieces, on a checkerboard.
    2. (in a regenerative furnace) loosely stacked brickwork through which furnace gases and incoming air are passed in turn, so that the heat of the exhaust is absorbed and later transferred to the incoming air.
  3. a checkered pattern.
  4. one of the squares of a checkered pattern.


verb (used with object)

  1. to mark like a checkerboard.
  2. to diversify in color; variegate.
  3. to diversify in character; subject to alternations:

    Sorrow and joy have checkered his life.

checker

2

[ chek-er ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that checks.
  2. a cashier, as in a supermarket or cafeteria.
  3. a person who checks coats, baggage, etc.

checker

1

/ 藞迟蕛蓻办蓹 /

noun

  1. the usual US spelling of chequer
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. textiles a variant spelling of chequer
  2. any one of the 12 flat thick discs used by each player in the game of checkers Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)draughtsman
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

checker

2

/ 藞迟蕛蓻办蓹 /

noun

  1. a cashier, esp in a supermarket
  2. an attendant in a cloakroom, left-luggage office, etc
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of checker1

First recorded in 1250鈥1300; Middle English check(i)er, chequer, chekker 鈥渃hessboard, checkerboard,鈥 from Old French eschequier, eschaquier (by shortening), equivalent to eschec + -er; check 1, -er 2

Origin of checker2

First recorded in 1525鈥35; check 1 + -er 1
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The 4D chess has been replaced by someone playing one dimensional checkers, but unable to tell the difference between opposing pieces.

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Meanwhile, the PM will take aim at the "cottage industry of checkers and blockers slowing down delivery".

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He will take aim at a "cottage industry of checkers and blockers slowing down delivery for working people", as he argues the state has become bigger but weaker.

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The California Department of Transportation鈥檚 half-century epic over the failed 710 Freeway expansion 鈥 and the homes the agency acquired to build it 鈥 is coming to a checkered climax.

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鈥淭he fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they鈥檝e created, especially in the US,鈥 he said in the video.

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