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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024check•ered /ˈtʃɛkɚd/USA pronunciation adj. - showing changes in different directions:a checkered past.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024check•ered (chek′ərd),USA pronunciation adj. - marked by numerous and various shifts or changes;
variegated:a checkered career. - marked by dubious episodes;
suspect in character or quality:a checkered past. - marked with squares:a checkered fabric.
- diversified in color;
alternately light and shadowed:the checkered shade beneath trees.
- Middle English. See checker1, -ed2 1350–1400
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged . varied, uneven, irregular, seesaw.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024check•er1 /ˈtʃɛkɚ/USA pronunciation n. - Chess, Games[countable] a small, usually red or black disk of plastic or wood used in playing checkers.
- Chess, Gamescheckers, Also called, Brit., draughts. [uncountable; used with a singular verb] a game played by two persons, each with 12 playing pieces, on a checkerboard:Checkers is a good introduction to chess.
Also, Brit., chequer.check•er2 /ˈtʃɛkɚ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a person or thing that checks.
- a cashier, as in a supermarket.
- an employee of a checkroom.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024check•er1 (chek′ər),USA pronunciation n. - Chessa small, usually red or black disk of plastic or wood, used in playing checkers.
- Chess checkers:
- Also called,[Brit.,] draughts. (used with a sing. v.) a game played by two persons, each with 12 playing pieces, on a checkerboard.
- Metallurgy(in a regenerative furnace) loosely stacked brickwork through which furnace gases and incoming air are passed in turn, so that the heat of the exhaust is absorbed and later transferred to the incoming air. See diag. under open-hearth.
- a checkered pattern.
- one of the squares of a checkered pattern.
v.t. - to mark like a checkerboard.
- to diversify in color;
variegate. - to diversify in character;
subject to alternations:Sorrow and joy have checkered his life.
Also,[Brit.,] chequer. - Anglo-French escheker (by aphesis), equivalent. to eschec check + -er -er2
- Middle English checker chessboard 1250–1300
- a person or thing that checks.
- a cashier, as in a supermarket or cafeteria.
- a person who checks coats, baggage, etc.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: checker /ˈtʃɛkə/ n , vb - the usual US spelling of chequer
n - a variant spelling of chequer
- US Canadian
Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): draughtsman
checker /ˈtʃɛkə/ n chiefly US Canadian - a cashier, esp in a supermarket
- an attendant in a cloakroom, left-luggage office, etc
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: chequered, esp US checkered /ˈtʃɛkəd/ adj - marked by fluctuations of fortune (esp in the phrase a chequered career)
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