different between validator vs checker

English

Etymology

validate +? -or

Noun

validator (plural validators)

1. One who validates.
2. Something that validates.

   Use the HTML validator to check that your web page is correctly coded.

Translations

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