Checker vs Counterchange - What's the difference?
checker | counterchange |
One who checks something.
The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark spots, like a checkerboard.
To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark spots, like a checkerboard.
To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging.
* Tennyson
(obsolete) An exchange of one thing for another.
(obsolete) Due return (for an action etc.); reciprocation.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ix:
As nouns the difference between checker and counterchange
is that checker is one who checks something while counterchange is an exchange of one thing for another.As verbs the difference between checker and counterchange
is that checker is to mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark spots, like a checkerboard while counterchange is to give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.checker
English
Alternative forms
* chequerEtymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- ''There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow.
Etymology 2
Derived terms
* checkerboardVerb
(en verb)Etymology 3
Alteration of (chequer)Usage notes
* Almost always spelled chequer, because the tree itself is native to areas where that spelling is used, and is pretty much unknown in areas that use the other spelling.Derived terms
* checkerberryAnagrams
* ----counterchange
English
Verb
(counterchang)- Witch-elms that counterchange the floor / Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright.
Noun
(en noun)- But Paridell sore brused with the blow, / Could not arise, the counterchaunge to scorse [...].
