to checker
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5.8
- verb
- /ˈtʃɛkər/
- US
:
ajedrezar
- This area of the moors is checkered with marshes.
Examples
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Users are prompted by questions and icons, such as checkered flags, through each step of the process.
Academic text (1995) -
Annie Ruth, brushing crumbs from the checkered kitchen tablecloth, looked to Betty, too.
Fiction book (1993) -
All right, let's checker the session, clear the track!
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Then, she dropped the pink and white checkered curtains back over the window.
Fiction book (1993) -
In the dig itself, the ground is checkered with excavations everywhere.
Fiction book (1993) -
All the seats at the tables, covered with red and white checkered cloths, were taken.
Fiction book (2002) -
Jennie, wearing yet another checkered traveling suit, clinked her champagne glass against Harry's, grinning.
Fiction book (2002) -
She decided to checker the tablecloth with alternating red and white patterns.
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The artist chose to checker the walls of the room with bold colors for a lively effect.
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He plans to checker his garden path with bricks and gravel for a unique design.
Synonyms
12
4.2
Draw crossed lines to make a pattern of squares
6
3.4
To draw lines that cross each other on something
To mark or cover a surface with alternating colored squares
To cut a pattern of small diamonds or squares into a surface to give a better grip
Compounds
- Specialized
A computer program that finds mistakes in the order of words or symbols in text
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb checker that means to mark with a pattern of squares comes from the old word chequer, the same root as checkerboard and checkered. So to checker something is to make a square or repeating pattern on it.