What's the difference between checker and counterchange?
Checker
Definition:
(v. t.) One who checks.
(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.
Counterchange
Definition:
(v. t.) To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
(v. t.) To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2.