負責查核的人
這一家全是「查的那個人」，差別只在查的是工作、還是你購物籃裡的東西。
noun · B2
Someone whose job is to go over work that another person has done and make sure it is written or done correctly.
查核人員
這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字，意思沒有關係， 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 查核人員 · 西洋跳棋
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checker
n核心畫面
Someone standing just behind a finished piece of work, comparing it with what it was supposed to be, and marking anything that does not match. That is check plus -er: the one that checks. The picture does not care whether the one doing it is a person or a machine, which is why the same word covers a person going over forms, a person at a supermarket till going over your basket, and a program going over your spelling. Whatever is being checked usually gets named right in front of the word.
「checker」可以想成一個人站在完成的工作後面，把它跟「本來應該長什麼樣」對一次，然後把對不上的地方標出來。這就…更多收起
「checker」可以想成一個人站在完成的工作後面，把它跟「本來應該長什麼樣」對一次，然後把對不上的地方標出來。這就是 check 加 -er：查的那個。這個畫面不在乎做事的是人還是機器，所以同一個字可以指核對表格的人、超市結帳台前幫你把籃子裡的東西一件件過一遍的人，也可以指幫你掃過拼字的程式。要講清楚查的是什麼，英文通常直接把那樣東西放在 checker 前面。From the word’s history
From check plus -er, the ending English uses to name the one that does something. The packet notes that this checker and the chessboard checker are, in the end, cognate morpheme for morpheme, but the two arrived in English by different routes and carry different pictures today.
由 check 加上 -er 組成，-er 在英文裡就是用來造出「做那件事的人或東西」。字典另外提到一件有趣的事：這個 checker 跟棋盤那個 checker 追到最後，構詞上其實同源。不過兩個字進入英文的路線不同，今天帶的畫面也不一樣，所以這裡分成兩張圖來看。
Wiktionary, checker (etymology 1, check + -er; note on cognacy with etymology 2), as supplied in this evidence packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1089005513)
Two branches
代替人查核的程式
-er 造出來的字本來就可以指機器，所以「查的那個」不必是人。工作內容一樣：比對、標出不對的地方。
noun · B1
A computer program that reads through your writing and marks places where a word may be spelled wrongly, or where a sentence may not follow the rules of grammar.
拼字文法檢查程式
A second word, same spelling
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checker
n/v核心畫面
A board of light and dark squares, one after the other, all the way across. That flat pattern is the whole of this second checker, and it has nothing to do with checking anything. Look at the squares and you get the pattern word and the single square. Look at what sits on them and you get the round pieces and the game they belong to. Even the verb is just this picture turned into an action: to checker a surface is to give it those alternating light and dark squares.
「checker」的另一張圖，可以想成一塊黑白格交錯、一路鋪過去的棋盤。這一整家的意思都在這張平面圖裡，跟「檢查」沒…更多收起
「checker」的另一張圖，可以想成一塊黑白格交錯、一路鋪過去的棋盤。這一整家的意思都在這張平面圖裡，跟「檢查」沒有關係。看格子本身，就得到「方格花紋」和「一個小方格」。看格子上放的東西，就得到那些圓扁棋子，以及它們玩的那個遊戲。連動詞也只是把這張圖變成動作：把一個表面 checker 起來，就是讓它出現那種明暗交錯的方格。From the word’s history
From Middle English cheker, a shortened form of Anglo-Norman escheker meaning a chessboard, from Latin scaccarium. The chessboard is therefore the oldest thing in this branch, and the pieces, the pattern and the game all take their name from it.
來自中古英語 cheker，是盎格魯-諾曼語 escheker（棋盤）的縮短形，再往上是拉丁文 scaccarium。所以這一支最早的東西就是棋盤：棋子、花紋、遊戲的名字，全都是從棋盤那個字長出來的。
Wiktionary, checker (etymology 2, from Middle English cheker, Anglo-Norman escheker, Latin scaccarium), as supplied in this evidence packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1089018042)
From the picture
棋盤上的棋子和遊戲
把目光從格子移到格子上的東西，就是這一家：圓扁的棋子，以及用它們玩的那個遊戲。名字一樣是從棋盤那個字來的。
noun · B1
In American English, the board game for two players in which each side has twelve flat round pieces on a board of sixty-four squares, and you take the other side's pieces by jumping over them.
西洋跳棋
Also in this word
noun · B2
One of the flat round pieces used in the game of checkers, or in some other board games such as backgammon.
跳棋棋子
noun · C1
A pattern of squares in two colours, one after the other like a chessboard, or one single square inside such a pattern.
方格花紋
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
checkernoun詞源 1/ˈtʃɛkə/
- 1
One who or that which checks or verifies something.
- So, keep in mind that Microsoft Word’s Spelling tool is as much a “typo” tool as a checker of spelling.
- 2
One who makes a check mark.
- "Essentially," said a senior vice president of the FHLBB of Dallas, "we were checkers of boxes."
- 3
The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
- There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow.
- Bud Brown said something to the checker he was supervising; she had been craning around to see what was happening. She flushed and began to run her calculator again.
- 4
One who hinders or stops something.
checkernoun詞源 2/ˈtʃɛkə/
- 1
A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts), or certain other table games such as backgammon.
- 2
A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
- 3
An individual square appearing in such a pattern.
checkerverb詞源 2/ˈtʃɛkə/
- 1
To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
- On the other hand, who ever tires of the names of Oldfield, and Bracegirdle, and Woffington? All the flutters of the fans of two centuries, and all the solid merits of bodices and petticoats, come down to us in their names; chequering Covent Garden like chintz, and bringing along with them the periwigged and scented glories of the Congreves and Steeles.
- 2
To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
checkernoun詞源 3/ˈtʃɛkə/
- 1
The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。