mid-13c., "game of chess (or checkers);" c. 1300, "a chessboard, board with 64 squares for playing chess or similar games; a set of chessmen" a shortening of Old French eschequier "chessboard; a game of chess," from Medieval Latin scaccarium (see check (n.1)). Meaning "pattern of squares" is late 14c. Meaning "a man or marker in the game of checkers" is from 1864. British prefers chequer. From late 14c. as "a checked design." The word had earlier senses of "table covered with checked cloth for counting" (late 12c. in Anglo-Latin), a sense also in Old French (see checker (n.2)).
"table covered with a checked cloth," specialized sense of checker (n.1), late 14c. (in Anglo-Latin from c. 1300); especially a table for counting money or keeping accounts (revenue reckoned with counters); later extended to "the fiscal department of the English Crown; the Exchequer (mid-14c.; in Anglo-Latin from late 12c.).
双语例句
1. Check list ( quality specification ) has been signed by the controller ( inspector, checker ).
检验单 ( 质量说明书 ) 已由管理员 ( 检查员 、 审核人 ) 签字.
来自口语例句
2. I am the official checker of the new things to be checked.
我就是那些不明事物的安全检查官.
来自电影对白
3. The certification is invalid without the signature of appraiser , checker and approver.
鉴定书无主检、审核、批准签字无效.
来自互联网
4. The checker checks on the quality of our products.
