(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.
Exchequer
Definition:
(n.) One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table.
(n.) The department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company's exchequer is low.
(v. t.) To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem is that these revenues have been siphoned off to the London exchequer."
(2) Because pension incomes are taxable, and pensioners would have more to spend – generating indirect taxation – and the number of people on social security would be lower, the Exchequer would benefit by between £1.7bn and £3bn.
(3) It would make no difference if you were the chancellor of the exchequer handling an existential economic crisis.
(4) The exchequer will receive an extra £630m from the £2.5bn-a-year bank levy in 2011-12 and a further £590m by 2015-16.
(5) Public borrowing this year is projected to be £111bn, 7% of national income, and interest payments on the national debt will be a drain on the exchequer for years to come.
(6) In addition to outlining to ministers the list of parliamentary bills, George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, also gave the cabinet an economic update, while the prime minister and home secretary outlined their determination to cut net migration to the tens of thousands.
(7) Whatever has happened to the chancellor of the exchequer?” he asked.
(8) In June the chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, announced that the 1% cap on pay rises would be extended for another four years at time when wages have begun to rise in real terms in other parts of the economy.
(9) Over 70p of every pound spent on tobacco goes to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yielding over 5 billion pounds.
(10) In the Sunday Telegraph, David Cameron said: "What I want is tax revenue from the banks into the exchequer, so we can help rebuild this economy."
(11) The chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, who unveiled Help to Buy in 2013's budget , welcomed the Bank's moves to cool the housing market.
(12) Umunna argued that the sum paid directly in corporation tax to the exchequer is the best reflection of a bank's contribution to the country.
(13) "The SNP is selective about when money has flowed into the exchequer.
(14) The select committee said it was told by Sir Simon Jenkins "that he could remember very well a certain chancellor of the exchequer, who shall be nameless, inquiring as to what his memoirs might be worth and the answer was: 'A quarter of a million tomorrow, £100,000 next week, £10,000 two months from now.
(15) The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that, excluding the cost of interventions to support the financial sector, public sector net borrowing (PSNB) – the gap between the exchequer's tax take and its spending – stood at £163.4bn for the financial year just ended.
(16) "I contribute tens of millions of pounds [to the exchequer].
(17) In 2010 the Labour administration introduced a new top rate of 50% on income over £150,000, but the current chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, cut the rate to 45% in the 2012 budget.
(18) The plan, overseen by the Tory exchequer secretary, David Gauke, has provoked a backlash from privacy campaigners and tax professionals.
(19) ACC: I went straight into the civil service, into the exchequer and audit department, and came to London and worked first in Whitehall, at the old Board of Education, and then went to the Post Office, and then the war began and we were evacuated.
(20) Writing on the Guardian's website, shadow exchequer minister Owen Smith was sceptical, saying the anti-avoidance measures would be "a toothless tiger".