n.
1.an attendant who checks coats or baggage
2.one who checks the correctness of something
3.one of the flat round pieces used in playing checkers checker v.
1.mark into squares or draw squares on
2.variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns
Idiom of the Day
learn (something) by rote
to memorize something without thinking about what is being learned
The children learned the material by rote but they did not really understand it.