checkerboard
n.
checkered board used in the game of checkers
CheckerBoard
Checkerboard
A checkerboard (or chequerboard) is a board on which
American checkers is played. It is an 8×8 board and the 64 squares are of alternating dark and light color, often red and black.The term checkerboard is also used to denote any rectangular square-tiled board. In this sense it refers not to a physical board as such but to the
mathematical abstraction of such a board. The adjective checkered may refer to a pattern resembling a checkerboard, as in the
checkered flag used to welcome the winning cars in a
Formula One race, for instance, or the livery on some emergency service vehicles.
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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.
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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,
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