Antonyms for checkerboard


Grammar : Noun
Spell : chek-er-bawrd, -bohrd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʃɛk ərˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd


Definition of checkerboard

  • As in network : noun system of connections
  • As in check : noun pattern of squares
Example sentences :
  • "The same," says Montague, waving the starboard extension of the checkerboard.
  • Extract from : « Cape Cod Stories » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • The checkerboard feller was standing up when we opened the door.
  • Extract from : « Cape Cod Stories » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Checkerboard patterns of brown and green grew larger and larger.
  • Extract from : « High Adventure » by James Norman Hall
  • It was lined off as precisely as a checkerboard, with counters, drawers, compartments.
  • Extract from : « The Last Place on Earth » by James Judson Harmon
  • There is nothing of the checkerboard about it; the orderliness of a chess game is lacking.
  • Extract from : « The Glory of The Coming » by Irvin S. Cobb
  • The checkerboard feller was standin up when we opened the door.
  • Extract from : « Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905 » by Various
  • The streets lay parallel and at right angles like the lines on a checkerboard.
  • Extract from : « Japan » by Various
  • What a checkerboard he had moved upon, and now the checkmate!
  • Extract from : « The Puppet Crown » by Harold MacGrath
  • Far below, hugging the winding river, lies little Innsbruck, with its checkerboard parks and Christmas garden villas.
  • Extract from : « A Book of Burlesques » by H. L. Mencken
  • Then cut them into thin slices for serving and they will be found to resemble a checkerboard.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Synonyms for checkerboard

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