英和和英

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtʃɛkə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɛkɚ/
• 韻: -ɛkə(ɹ)

語源 1

From check +‎ -er.

名詞

checker (plural checkers)

1. One who or that which checks or verifies something.
   • 1992, Neil J. Salkind, Applying Macintosh: Solutions, Ideas, and Tools, Macmillan Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 205:

     So, keep in mind that Microsoft Word’s Spelling tool is as much a “typo” tool as a checker of spelling.

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.

派生語

語源 2

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

名詞

checker (plural checkers)

1. A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts), or certain other table games such as backgammon.
2. A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
3. An individual square appearing in such a pattern.

派生語

関連する語

• exchequer

動詞

checker (third-person singular simple present checkers, present participle checkering, simple past and past participle 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 (plural 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
• checkerbloom
• checkermallow

アナグラム

• recheck