chequerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɛkə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɛkɚ/

名詞

chequer (plural chequers)

1. The edible fruit of the wild service tree, Sorbus torminalis.
2. Alternative spelling of checker (in certain senses only)

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動詞

chequer (third-person singular simple present chequers, present participle chequering, simple past and past participle chequered)

1. Alternative spelling of checker
   • 1711 December 12 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, December 1, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 237; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     Our minds are, as it were, chequered with truth and falsehood.

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. (please specify the chapter number)”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:

     A gleam of sun shining through the unsashed window, and chequering the dark workshop with a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart.

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