Spell Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to name, write, or otherwise give the letters, in order, of (a word, syllable, etc.): Did I spell your name right? | | 2. | (of letters) to form (a word, syllable, etc.): The letters spelled a rather rude word. | | 3. | to read letter by letter or with difficulty (often fol. by out): She painfully spelled out the message. | | 4. | to discern or find, as if by reading or study (often fol. by out). | | 5. | to signify; amount to: This delay spells disaster for us. | –verb (used without object) | 6. | to name, write, or give the letters of words, syllables, etc.: He spells poorly. | | 7. | to express words by letters, esp. correctly. | —Verb phrases | 8. | spell down, to outspell others in a spelling match. | | 9. | spell out, | a. | to explain something explicitly, so that the meaning is unmistakable: Must I spell it out for you? | | b. | to write out in full or enumerate the letters of which a word is composed: The t
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Checker Definition–noun | 1. | a small, usually red or black disk of plastic or wood, used in playing checkers. | | 2. | checkers, | a. | Also called, British, draughts. (used with a singular verb ) a game played by two persons, each with 12 playing pieces, on a checkerboard. | | b. | (in a regenerative furnace) loosely stacked brickwork through which furnace gases and incoming air are passed in turn, so that the heat of the exhaust is absorbed and later transferred to the incoming air. | | | 4. | one of the squares of a checkered pattern. | –verb (used with object) | 5. | to mark like a checkerboard. | | 6. | to diversify in color; variegate. | | 7. | to diversify in character; subject to alternations: Sorrow and joy have checkered his life. | |
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Record Online - Found Oct. 23, 2008
Right-click for suggestions and only one pops up, 'Osama.' The spell-checker in Adobe InCopy, the program used at the Times-Herald Record...
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Even corrected, a spell-checker confuses Bin Laden with Obama
The Detroit Free Press - Found Sep. 7, 2008
A few months ago, some people who follow politics got fussed because Microsoft Word's spell-checker advised those who typed 'Obama' to consider
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Pantagraph.com - Found Sep. 3, 2008
... the spell-checker.“The speller is looked at sometimes as an arbiter of language,” he said. “Once a word is in the Microsoft spell-checker...
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It functions similar to the way a spell checker works. When you misspell a word, a spell checker automatically highlights the error, and allows...
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The Oregonian - Found Nov. 6, 2008
Even my spell checker had to be updated for both of his names.
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Article Dashboard.com - Found Nov. 6, 2008
As for spelling, use a spell-checker. Also, get associated with the differences between affect/effect, your/you're, and their/there/they're.
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Pushing For A Repeal Of Sarbanes-Oxley
Techdirt - Found Nov. 6, 2008
It is conceivable that the embedded spell-checker on the site simply shat itself, and the grammar checker was too busy laughing to care. Wow.
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Striking back at head shots
Globe and Mail - Found Nov. 4, 2008
... pansification' of hockey - and even if the word doesn't appear in any dictionary, thesaurus or spell-checker, his meaning was crystal clear.
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