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单词 chequerboard
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Definition of chequerboard in English:

chequerboard

(US checkerboard)
nounˈtʃɛkəbɔːdˈtʃɛkərˌbɔrd
  • 1A board for playing checkers (draughts) and similar games, having a regular pattern of squares in alternating colours, typically black and white.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The trail then leads to intricately textured white sandstone formations, contoured with thin layers and crosshatched by cracks that create a checkerboard pattern.
    • Brenda gives all her birdhouses custom paint jobs and has done many styles, including polka dots, checkerboards, and floral patterns.
    • As you look up at it, the inside of the roof looks like a checkerboard whose squares have been battered and then flown apart.
    • The facade is divided into a set of nine slightly staggered panels, framed in relief and decorated in a checkerboard missing-brick pattern.
    • They were huge and brittle-looking, creating a chequerboard effect against the endless white of the sand.
    • Starting with a corner square, mark every other square with an X to create the checkerboard pattern.
    • The Caribbean in 1700 was a chequerboard of competing empires: Spain retained some of the larger islands but others had passed to the French, the British, the Dutch, and the Danes.
    • Stitch the strips together again, alternating black and white to create a checkerboard pattern.
    • Kaleidoscope Classic, a game based on traditional checkerboard, is all about mind and creativity.
    • It is certainly possible, for example, to use just two colors when setting square tiles in a checkerboard pattern.
    • After supper I'll bring the checkerboard up and play you a few games.
    • Across Stirling you can see a chequerboard of more-or-less regular fields on the low ground, a landscape that is a recent creation.
    • The checkerboard pattern is a standard surface rendering option in 3D computer imaging software packages.
    • It has tables with checkerboards, cards and other table games as well as two large sofas.
    • The floor, walls, and ceiling were covered with a checkerboard pattern.
    • The floor was a checkerboard of black and white lino tiles.
    • Alternate diagonals have been indented by a punch to make the classic chequerboard pattern.
    • Based on the traditional 64-square checkerboard, the game appears simple.
    • The doctor finishes his drink and gently sets the glass down on the coaster, staring at the little checkerboard pattern beneath it.
    • Even the floors and ceilings were different: the former was high and covered with stalactites, whereas the latter was no longer simply white marble but a checkerboard of black and white.
    1. 1.1 A pattern resembling a chequerboard.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I did it all on the machine and made a very simple checkerboard pattern.
      • Where it had been, there was only the strange checkerboard pattern of the wall.
      • She found herself speeding across the marble onto the checkerboard floor.
      • Seared tuna was cut wafer-thin and plated in an odd checkerboard pattern with diaphanous slivers of half-ripe mango.
      • The classic use for black and white, of course, is in tiles, most often in a checkerboard pattern.
      • She utilizes a generic modernism made up of stock visual conventions: triangular vectors, multicolored bands, checkerboards.
      • For example, it takes only two colors to fill in a checkerboard pattern.
      • The checkerboards of alternately horizontal and vertical stripes - lines that are also shapes - are not really gestural, as the paint is applied quite deliberately.
      • Brenda gives all her bird houses custom paint jobs and has done many styles, including polka dots, checkerboards, and floral patterns.
      • First are simple repetitive patterns, such as all white cells or all black cells, or alternation in stripes and checkerboards.
      • The soft-edge checkerboards from the early 1950s turned sharper over the course of the decade, and the 1960s paintings displayed a new interest in color relationships.
      • The doctor finishes his drink and gently sets the glass down on the coaster, staring at the little checkerboard pattern beneath it.
      • Everyone trooped to the large pale green kitchen with a checkerboard floor.
      • Bossard says there are an almost unlimited number of patterns that can be cut into the turf - rows, diamonds, checkerboards, stars, numbers.
      • The table straddling the checkerboard floor and spiral carpet ties the differing patterns together.
      • The floor, walls, and ceiling were covered with a checkerboard pattern.
      • The pattern of squares laid out on the landscape was described as a checkerboard rather than merely a grid because different quantities were computed in the alternating black and white squares.
      • It is certainly possible, for example, to use just two colors when setting square tiles in a checkerboard pattern.
 
 

Definition of checkerboard in US English:

checkerboard

nounˈCHekərˌbôrdˈtʃɛkərˌbɔrd
  • 1A board for playing checkers and certain other games, with a regular pattern of squares in alternating colors, typically black and white.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Brenda gives all her birdhouses custom paint jobs and has done many styles, including polka dots, checkerboards, and floral patterns.
    • Even the floors and ceilings were different: the former was high and covered with stalactites, whereas the latter was no longer simply white marble but a checkerboard of black and white.
    • Based on the traditional 64-square checkerboard, the game appears simple.
    • The facade is divided into a set of nine slightly staggered panels, framed in relief and decorated in a checkerboard missing-brick pattern.
    • Across Stirling you can see a chequerboard of more-or-less regular fields on the low ground, a landscape that is a recent creation.
    • The checkerboard pattern is a standard surface rendering option in 3D computer imaging software packages.
    • As you look up at it, the inside of the roof looks like a checkerboard whose squares have been battered and then flown apart.
    • Stitch the strips together again, alternating black and white to create a checkerboard pattern.
    • The floor, walls, and ceiling were covered with a checkerboard pattern.
    • The Caribbean in 1700 was a chequerboard of competing empires: Spain retained some of the larger islands but others had passed to the French, the British, the Dutch, and the Danes.
    • Kaleidoscope Classic, a game based on traditional checkerboard, is all about mind and creativity.
    • It is certainly possible, for example, to use just two colors when setting square tiles in a checkerboard pattern.
    • The trail then leads to intricately textured white sandstone formations, contoured with thin layers and crosshatched by cracks that create a checkerboard pattern.
    • They were huge and brittle-looking, creating a chequerboard effect against the endless white of the sand.
    • Alternate diagonals have been indented by a punch to make the classic chequerboard pattern.
    • After supper I'll bring the checkerboard up and play you a few games.
    • The floor was a checkerboard of black and white lino tiles.
    • Starting with a corner square, mark every other square with an X to create the checkerboard pattern.
    • It has tables with checkerboards, cards and other table games as well as two large sofas.
    • The doctor finishes his drink and gently sets the glass down on the coaster, staring at the little checkerboard pattern beneath it.
    1. 1.1 A pattern resembling a board for playing checkers and other games, with a regular pattern of squares in alternating colors.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is certainly possible, for example, to use just two colors when setting square tiles in a checkerboard pattern.
      • The classic use for black and white, of course, is in tiles, most often in a checkerboard pattern.
      • For example, it takes only two colors to fill in a checkerboard pattern.
      • Where it had been, there was only the strange checkerboard pattern of the wall.
      • First are simple repetitive patterns, such as all white cells or all black cells, or alternation in stripes and checkerboards.
      • The table straddling the checkerboard floor and spiral carpet ties the differing patterns together.
      • She utilizes a generic modernism made up of stock visual conventions: triangular vectors, multicolored bands, checkerboards.
      • She found herself speeding across the marble onto the checkerboard floor.
      • Everyone trooped to the large pale green kitchen with a checkerboard floor.
      • Seared tuna was cut wafer-thin and plated in an odd checkerboard pattern with diaphanous slivers of half-ripe mango.
      • Bossard says there are an almost unlimited number of patterns that can be cut into the turf - rows, diamonds, checkerboards, stars, numbers.
      • The soft-edge checkerboards from the early 1950s turned sharper over the course of the decade, and the 1960s paintings displayed a new interest in color relationships.
      • I did it all on the machine and made a very simple checkerboard pattern.
      • The pattern of squares laid out on the landscape was described as a checkerboard rather than merely a grid because different quantities were computed in the alternating black and white squares.
      • The checkerboards of alternately horizontal and vertical stripes - lines that are also shapes - are not really gestural, as the paint is applied quite deliberately.
      • The doctor finishes his drink and gently sets the glass down on the coaster, staring at the little checkerboard pattern beneath it.
      • The floor, walls, and ceiling were covered with a checkerboard pattern.
      • Brenda gives all her bird houses custom paint jobs and has done many styles, including polka dots, checkerboards, and floral patterns.
 
 
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