checker
checker is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.
- 2.To variegate or diversify with different qualities, color, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosterity and adversity. Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood. Addison.
- 3.A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.
- 4.A pattern in checks; a single check.
- 5.Checkerwork. Note: This word is also written chequer.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- account
- address
- aid
- almanac
- army
- atlas
- bead
- bill
- book
- cadaster
- cadastral
- cadastre
- card
- carte
- cartulary
- catalog
- catalogue
- census
- chart
- check
- civil
- clergy
- collate
- concordance
- contents
- dictionary
- diptych
- directory
- document
- enumerate
- fare
- file
- glossary
- index
- inventory
- inverted
- invoice
- itemize
- jury
- lading
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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