checker

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The outcome seemed just, even though I was surprised at how surly the checker was about the whole thing.

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  1. noun One, such as an inspector or examiner, that checks.
  2. noun One that receives items for temporary safekeeping or for shipment: a baggage checker.
  3. noun A game played on a checkerboard by two players, each using 12 pieces.
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  • The purpose of a proactive password checker is to stop the problem before the password gets committed to the passwd file. —  Maximum Security -- Ch 17 -- UNIX: The Big Kahuna
  • The outcome seemed just, even though I was surprised at how surly the checker was about the whole thing. —  San Antonio News
  • Note: Many of these are Leopard-only. built-in spell checker, and you've probably also noticed the grammar checker which can be enabled in Cocoa applications, including Mail. app and other OS X default apps. —  The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  • The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter 'u' 'and the elimination of' - ize. ' —  magic-city-news.com
  • We have tested the method by using a model-checker, and have studied the applicability of the method to some existing languages for semistructured databases. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. Middle English cheker, chessboard, alteration of escheker, from Old French eschequier, from eschec, check in chess; see check.

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  1. Also written in England chequer, a recent and imperfect “restoration” of the F. form; from Middle English cheker, chekker, chekkere, a chess-board, the exchequer, shortened from escheker, the exchequer, from Anglo-French escheker, eschekier, Old French eschequier, eschekier, eschiquier, eschakier, a chess-board, hence the checkered cloth on which accounts were calculated, a court of revenue, exchequer, French échiquier = Provencal escaquier = Italian scacchiere, from Middle Latin scacarium, scaccarium, a chess-board, a court of revenue, exchequer, from scacci, chess: see check, n., and cf. exchequer, a doublet of checker.
  2. Also written chequer; from checker, n.
  3. from check, v., + -er.
 

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