checkerとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɛkə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛkɚ/
• 韻: -ɛkə(ɹ)

語源 1

check +‎ -er

名詞

checker (複数形 checkers)

1. One who checks or verifies something.
2. 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."

3. 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.

   • 1980, Stephen King, The Mist

     Bud Brown said something to the checker he was supervising; she had been craning around to see what was happening. She flushed and began to run her calculator again.

4. One who hinders or stops something.

語源 2

From Middle English cheker, aphetic from Anglo-Norman escheker (“chessboard”), from Latin scaccarium, thus ultimately morpheme-for-morpheme cognate to etymology 1.

名詞

checker (複数形 checkers)

1. A playing piece in the game of checkers (英国用法: draughts).
2. A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
3. An individual square appearing in such a pattern.

派生語

• checkerboard

関連する語

• exchequer

動詞

A flag with a checker pattern

checker (三人称単数 現在形 checkers, 現在分詞 checkering, 過去形および過去分詞形 checkered)

1. (transitive) To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
2. (intransitive) To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.

語源 3

Alteration of chequer.

名詞

checker (複数形 checkers)

1. The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis

使用する際の注意点

• 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.

派生語

• checkerberry

アナグラム

• recheck