checkerboard – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
checkerboard
n.
checkered board used in the game of checkers and chess (and other games) with a regular pattern of squares in alternating colors that usually are black and white, draughtboard; pattern with squares in alternating colors that looks like a board for playing checkers and chess
adj.
printed or woven in a checkerboard pattern, printed in a pattern of squares of equal size and two different colors
Checkerboard
A
checkerboard or
chequerboard (see
spelling differences) is a board of
chequered pattern on which
English draughts (checkers) is played. It consists of 64 squares (8×8) of alternating dark and light color, often black and white.
checkerboard
Noun
1. a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors
(hypernym) board, gameboard
(hyponym) chessboard
(part-holonym) chess, chess game
(part-meronym) square
Checkerboard
(n.)
A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
checkerboard
Synonyms and related words:
agate, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, blocks, check, checker, checkerwork, chessboard, club, cockhorse, colors in patches, crazy-work, cricket bat, cue, doll, doll carriage, gewgaw, gimcrack, golf club, harlequin, hobbyhorse, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, kickshaw, knickknack, marble, marionette, marquetry, mig, mosaic, paper doll, parquet, parquetry, patchwork, pick-up sticks, pinwheel, plaid, plaything, puppet, racket, rag doll, rocking horse, sport, steelie, tartan, taw, teetotum, tessellation, tesserae, top, toy, toy soldier, trinket, variegated pattern, whim-wham,
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
