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check·er·board

checkerboard

 
pronunciation:
che kr bord
parts of speech:
noun, transitive verb
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part of speech: noun
definition 1: a surface marked into eight rows and columns of squares of two alternating colors, usu. red and black, and used as a game board for checkers or chess.
definition 2: any pattern of squares of two alternating colors.
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adjective + (n.)checkerboard alternating, beige, black, black-and-white, blue, brown, ceramic, cold, colonial, customary, geometric, giant, green, huge, inlaid, irregular, like, neat, painted, paved, red, traditional, white  [See all][See only the most frequent]
verb + (n.)checkerboard arrange, consist, contain, continue, create, design, feature, form, hunch, lay, mimic, paint, represent, resemble, shine, slide
noun + (n.)checkerboard Help arm, bowl, brass, cell, chair, checker, chess, clothes, column, container, cookbook, cookie, cream, crop, design, destruction, diamond, doorway, emblem, facade, farm, farmland, fashion, flag, floor, flooring, formation, gold, green, image, kitchen, lake, land, linoleum, lounge, marble, motif, neighborhood, ownership, page, pattern, pixel, platform, porch, pride, red, reservation, rug, shade, shape, shirt, spot, square, stripe, table, tile, tin, tray, valley, weave, zone [See all][See only the most frequent]
 
part of speech: transitive verb
inflections: checkerboards, checkerboarding, checkerboarded
definition: to pattern or mark like a checkerboard.
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