Crossword clues for checkerboard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Checkerboard \Check"er*board\ (ch[e^]k"[~e]r*b[=o]rd`), n. A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers, chess, or draughts.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A pattern of squares of alternating colours. 2 A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 64 squares, used to play chess and draughts / checkers. n. 1 A pattern of squares of alternating colours. 2 A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 64 squares, used to play chess and draughts / checkers. vb. (context transitive English) To checker; to mark with an alternating pattern of light and dark.
WordNet
n. a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors
Wikipedia
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.
Other rectangular square-tiled boards are also often called checkerboards. In this sense it refers not to a physical board as such but to the mathematical abstraction of such a board. The adjective chequered refers to the pattern shown in many contexts, such as the checkered flag used to signify the end of a vehicle race, the popular ice cream flavor or the livery on some emergency service vehicles. However, when this pattern is used on such vehicles, in certain countries, it is called a Sillitoe Tartan. A red-and-white checkerboard is the medieval coat of arms of Croatia, and is widely used in national symbology there.
The checkerboard pattern is often associated with the Ska music genre, for breaking the racial barrier between black and whites at the time. A checkerboard marking painted on a hilltop was used as visual guidance on Hong Kong's old Kai Tak Airport. Many taxicabs also use a checkerboard pattern.
A checkerboard pattern of alternating aviation orange and white is commonly required for compliance with the FAA as a means of making tall or sufficiently sizable structures stand out, so as to make them clearly visible to pilots, including water tanks, gas tanks, grain storage tanks, tall buildings and flags.
Usage examples of "checkerboard".
Working parties were driving in long angle-iron fenceposts in a checkerboard pattern over the earth berm and fastening barbed wire to them.
I could see the double-tiered roadway of the Route 495 Beltway, and a forest of radio-TV antennas off among the checkerboard of neat little suburban houses that covered the once-green and rolling hills.
Checkerboard regained horizontal attitude, and Doghead pressed on the trigger button again.
On the floor beneath the suspended hypercube, and the crucified Christ, is a checkerboard pattern -- except directly below the hypercube.
Overhall the rolling countryside, checkerboarded with newly plowed fields, and square woodlots, was pleasantly studded with stone farmhouses and sturdy frame barns, all surrounded by freestone fencesthe small Achievements of freeholders whose forefathers had combined a sweet soil, careful husbandry, and hard work to build moderate wealth on grains, cattle, pigs, cheese, butter, and draft horses.
We flew past the Pergolas Caves, well-known and visited by tourists, past the checkerboard of farms and orchards.
They should be investigating Continental Collectors, and Tribal Councilman Jimmy Chester, and those people in the Bureau of Land Management, and the whole conspiracy to make the Checkerboard Reservation a national garbage pit.
Thoreau on the Checkerboard Reservation and one way over at Tano Pueblo.
Somebody killed a teacher out at a mission school on the Checkerboard Reservation.
Tomorrow, Chee thought, he would begin putting out the word to the medicine people in the Checkerboard and on the northeast side of the Big Rez.
The cinder block had been painted shocking pink and white, in checkerboard style.
Her neck crawled as she passed each doorway, eyes flicking left and right, and her lengthy fingers stroked the oak checkerboard of the pistol grip.
WAS DRIVING the land wag, cruising slowly up and down a checkerboard of little streets that wound around and twisted in on each other like a prairie-dog town.
They were in the room with the checkerboard wall of video screens, and Sanford had begun switching monitors on and activating machines, tapping pressure pads and pushing chairs forward as soon as they had entered.
The carpet resembled a huge checkerboard made of black and silver squares.