What's the difference between checkers and draughtsman?

Checkers


Definition:

  • (v.) A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.

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.

Draughtsman


Definition:

  • (n.) One who draws pleadings or other writings.
  • (n.) One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind.
  • (n.) A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts.
  • (n.) One who drinks drams; a tippler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over the decades he has cemented his position as an important artistic figure and extended his talents to work as a photographer, draughtsman, printmaker and stage designer.
  • (2) The works will be displayed in the Queen's gallery of Buckingham Palace alongside an exhibition of drawings and prints by the 17th-century artist Giovanni Castiglione, regarded as the most innovative and technically brilliant draughtsman of his day.
  • (3) He was a Christ-like hobo in Whistle Down The Wind (1961), a draughtsman forced into a shotgun marriage in A Kind Of Loving (1962), a prissy, poetry-reading Englishman in Zorba The Greek (1964), a Bathsheba-adoring shepherd in John Schlesinger's underrated Far From The Madding Crowd (1967).
  • (4) First of all, amid the chaos Degas found endless repetition of standard movements and poses, providing plenty of opportunities for the relentless copyist, the champion draughtsman, to get some daring and implausible postures absolutely convincing and right, creating a series of interior landscapes accessible without having to go outdoors.
  • (5) Over the next few years he acquired a reputation not only as a draughtsman of exceptional capabilities but also as an ingenious interior decorator.
  • (6) By now, he was a draughtsman participating in an early scientific project to codify the diversity of nature: henceforward, text would always be a behind-the-scenes presence in his work.
  • (7) For example, the estimates of one observer who was a well-trained professional draughtsman did not show this systematic error.
  • (8) Jane Campion , director The music Michael wrote for The Draughtsman's Contract had such clarity, voice and vision that I knew he was the person I needed.
  • (9) Raphael's drawing Head of a Young Apostle, which the Renaissance draughtsman created in about 1519-21, was also issued with an export licence after no British buyer could match the £29m New York billionaire Leon Black offered for it at auction.
  • (10) Anaerobic incubation gave large moist or mucoid colonies that were easy to recognise, but it suppressed the typical draughtsman colony of S pneumoniae.
  • (11) It is suggested that draughtsman colonies occur because of a relative lack of the coenzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (factor V), which is required as a reducing agent in aspartate and glutamate metabolism.
  • (12) He had worked at EMI in wartime as a jig and tool draughtsman.
  • (13) He was well educated, qualifying as a draughtsman before enlisting in the 34 th Battalion in 1916.
  • (14) Though a poor draughtsman, Johnson proved able to design well and quickly and could afford to build what he liked.
  • (15) The factor V supplement routinely used in our medium also inhibited the formation of draughtsman colonies.
  • (16) He grew up in New Jersey and dropped out of high school to take a job as a draughtsman when his parents divorced and money ran low.
  • (17) She wanted a different style from the music I'd written for The Draughtsman's Contract , and the three other films I'd scored for Peter Greenaway in the 1980s.
  • (18) This nutritional deficiency may lead to bacterial cell wall defect and hence to the autolysis which gives the typical draughtsman colony.
  • (19) Because Degas was so familiar, because I felt over-exposed to his talent and therefore somewhat inured to his charms, I acknowledged rather than appreciated the greatness of his work; he was the impressionist for people who didn't really like impressionists, the same prettiness but with line, structure and form, a brilliant draughtsman, yawn, a 19th-century classic.
  • (20) Most significantly, it was in Arles that Van Gogh developed as a draughtsman, producing some of his most exquisite works.