(n.) To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.
(n.) To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity.
(v. t.) A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.
(v. t.) A pattern in checks; a single check.
(v. t.) Checkerwork.
Example Sentences:
(1) • You can make a quick search for outstanding NS&I premium bond prizes online using the prize checker .
(2) in normal subjects indicates that the better results obtained with reversible checker-board stimulation can be attributed to greater reproductibility of the response.
(3) Laura Minnett is a 'quality checker' with the charity, Choice Support.
(4) The current study aimed to examine sociodemographic and clinical variables between washer and checker subgroups of obsessive compulsive disorder.
(5) Field and Barros were said to have put every figure in this report through a battery of fact checkers.
(6) Stuart, our guide from Wilderness Scotland, is easy-going and unassuming, and also a font of knowledge and a meticulous safety checker.
(7) This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of a silicone disclosing medium, G-C Fit-Checker, as an aid in the improvement of marginal integrity.
(8) Terkel won a Pulitzer prize for these stories, like that of Hobart Foote, or Babe Secoli the supermarket checker, who described customers engaged in something less like shopping than dodgem cars with trolleys, and garbage man Nick Salerno, discoursing on his long experience of how people pack their rubbish: "You get just like the milkman's horse — used to it."
(9) These conditions consisted of (a) playing Chinese checkers underwater, (b) swimming with eyes open underwater, (c) viewing a square underwater, and (d) an air control.
(10) In 21 patients with parkinsonism and 20 healthy controls visual potentials evoked with checker pattern used as an alternating stimulus were studied.
(11) The latency of the first major positive component (P100) of VECPs was measured using checker board pattern stimuli under varying conditions of spatial frequency (112', 56', 28', 14', 7').
(12) It was meant to be a quick knock-off of a novelty dance fad single, in the vein of Chubby Checker's It's Pony Time or Dee Dee Sharp's Do the Bird, and on one level, a quick knock-off was clearly what it was: Reed couldn't even be bothered to write his own riff, pinching it from the Crystals' 1963 smash Then He Kissed Me .
(13) Checkers' errors per tray did not change significantly from control to experimental period when data for the two periods were compared.
(14) Thus, the notion that compulsive checkers as opposed to compulsive cleaners emerge from two different parental rearing patterns was not sustained in this instance.
(15) Of 412 subjects seen during 1975-1984, there were 123 washers, 70 checkers and 89 washers and checkers (mixed group).
(16) American Bandstand provided the first national television appearances for the likes of Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and Chubby Checker.
(17) Rudd is asked why he persists in using the $70bn Coalition cuts figure when the fact checkers say it's wrong.
(18) Combined actions of aspoxicillin (ASPC) with several aminoglycosides (AGs) against various Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains were examined using the checker board method and experimental infection of mice, and the actions were compared with those of piperacillin (PIPC) and mezlocillin (MZPC).
(19) As the writer Clay Shirky put it, Democrats who respond to Trump by patiently noting his contradictions and untruths are making a category error: “We’ve brought fact-checkers to a culture war”.
(20) Station operator and checker accuracy were measured in terms of ratio of error-free trays, errors per tray, and errors to possibility of errors per tray.
(2) Hollande’s dinner and overnight stay at Chequers was also due to cover a strategy for Syria in light of growing signs that the president, Bashar al-Assad, is being shored up by additional military help from Russia and Iran.
(3) The manager may feel that given Van Persie’s chequered injury record he requires another elite striker in Falcao.
(4) Yet, the White House appears to be scrambling to set up infrastructure that can support such a conversation and has placed its trust in a body with a chequered history of independent scrutiny.
(5) Chequer-board titrations show that the in vitro activity of ciprofloxacin against Mycobacterium tuberculosis is independent of that of streptomycin, isoniazid, ethambutol and pyrazinamide and confirm that there is antagonism between ciprofloxacin and rifampicin.
(6) A most attacking left-back, the Dutchman has been culpable for the concession of quite a few goals during his distinctly chequered time on Wearside but, equally, scores his fair share.
(7) Investors were also spooked by a chequered sales performance as breakneck growth stuttered at home and abroad.
(8) 19 July 2001 George Bush visit to Chequers Bush … said he had been very tough with Putin, claimed he had told him: "If you carry on arming rogue states, you're going to end up eating your own metal."
(9) Komoroske and a neighbour researched the new arrival's chequered past, the basis of which, she said, made a mockery of the decision to award him residency in New Zealand.
(10) Most of the time, he has hugged Johnson close – notably in September 2012, when he invited the mayor’s whole family to Chequers, seeking his support for the renegotiation and referendum strategy unveiled in the Bloomberg speech of January 2013 .
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Xi Jinping and David Cameron drink pints of beer at a pub in Princess Risborough, near Chequers, in October 2015.
(12) Meaning: Crosby does not attend official ministerial meetings but is free to visit Downing Street and Chequers when invited.
(13) For this reason, the concentrations of low affinity antibodies would be underestimated using the chequer-board titration.
(14) There is, however, some hope to be found in the republic's chequered history.
(15) In addition to asking Heywood about the document, Labour is also expected to ask for details of how often Crosby has attended meetings in Downing Street and Chequers.
(16) We started off perhaps with half a step in the wrong direction,” said Lord Strathclyde, the former Tory leader of the House of Lords, who warned the prime minister at a Chequers meeting of Tory MPs and peers shortly after the referendum that he needed to act with care.
(17) It is understood that Cameron broadly knew why Mitchell wished to see him at Chequers, and carried this news with him through the EU summit.
(18) While my race time will not bother the history books, I don’t think I actually came last and, when that final chequered flag waved, I could happily have carried on for a few more laps.
(19) We like the Conservatives’ emphasis on maintaining a competitive corporation tax environment, but have concerns around some of the unhelpful rhetoric on immigration.” Sorrell has previously sat on the prime minister’s business advisory group and, with his wife, has been a guest of the Camerons at Chequers.
(20) Even before the 2008 legal dispute, Trump’s chequered business record was infamous.