checker vs scanner

checker

noun
  • One who or that which checks or verifies something. 

  • One who makes a check mark. 

  • One who hinders or stops something. 

  • The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment. 

  • The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis 

  • A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts). 

  • An individual square appearing in such a pattern. 

  • A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard. 

verb
  • To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard. 

  • To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard. 

scanner

noun
  • One who scans. 

  • A radio receiver which iterates through a sequence of frequencies to detect signal. 

  • A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium. 

  • A device which uses radiation (ultrasound, X-ray, etc.) to generate images of tissue or surfaces for diagnostic purposes. 

  • A device which uses optics to detect printed data (such as a barcode). 

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