checkerboard

Examples

• All

• The image on which the router works consists of a checkerboard pattern of tiles on each of the physical layers.

  Academic text (1996)

• Company streets were laid out in the standard checkerboard pattern.

  Fiction book (1990)

• "Who used to wear these?" he asked, standing on the green and white checkerboard tile floor.

  Fiction book (1996)

• It's well known that the black and white checkerboard pattern has been Rick's signature style for nearly thirty years.

  Blog text (2)

• When a transparent border is created, the transparent area is filled with a checkerboard pattern, and that sometimes makes it difficult to see the subject border.

  Academic text (1999)

• The tablecloth was a red-and-black cotton checkerboard.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Nothing had prepared her for the smooth grass oval and the bright checkerboards, stripes, and harlequin diamonds of the racing silks.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Characteristically, the facade of the sanctuary also bore above its door a checkerboard of eight rows, whose squares were alternately painted white.

  Academic text (1993)

• Directly across from us sat a two-story red-brick fortress with black shutters, the yard neat as a checkerboard.

  Fiction book (1994)

• An oval appliqué garlands the outside of some jars; checkerboard patterns and half-moon shapes, carved with fingernails, are found on others.

  Academic text (2004)

Synonyms

C

check

vscheckerboard

20 3.3

A pattern of small squares, like a chessboard or tablecloth

is used as a digital marker to show transparent or empty areas

C

chessboard

vscheckerboard

17 1.3

A square board with 64 light and dark squares used to play chess

is used to mark transparent or empty areas in digital images not for playing

C

chess board

vscheckerboard

2 1.8

A square board with 64 light and dark squares used for playing chess

is used to mark transparent or empty areas in digital images not for play

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Etymology