different between exchequer vs checker

English

Alternative forms

• exchecker (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman escheker (“chessboard”); from Medieval Latin scaccarium. This is because the cloth on which the exchequer counted money was chequered like a chessboard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ks?t???.k?/, /?ks?t???.k?/, enPR: ?ks-ch?k'-?r, iks-ch?k'-?r

Noun

exchequer (plural exchequers)

1. A treasury.
2. An available fund of money, especially one for a specific purpose.

Derived terms

• Exchequer (The UK government treasury department)

Translations

Verb

exchequer (third-person singular simple present exchequers, present participle exchequering, simple past and past participle exchequered)

1. (transitive) To proceed against (a person) in the Court of Exchequer.

English

Alternative forms

• chequer (in certain senses only)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??k?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t??k?/
• Rhymes: -?k?(r)

Etymology 1

check +? -er

Noun

checker (plural 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.

Translations

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)

1. A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts).
2. A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.

Derived terms

• checkerboard

Related terms

• exchequer

Translations

Verb

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.

Etymology 3

Alteration of chequer.

Noun

checker (plural checkers)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• checkerberry

Anagrams

• recheck

French

Etymology

From English to check.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.ke/

Verb

checker

1. to check, verify
2. (reflexive, reciprocal, slang) to bump fists

Conjugation

Synonyms

• vérifier
• regarder