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checkerboard

/chek-er-bawrd, -bohrd/US // ˈtʃɛk ərˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd //UK // (ˈtʃɛkəˌbɔːd) //

棋盘式,棋盘格,棋盘,棋盘棋

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Also called, British, draughtboard .

    • : a board marked off into 64 squares of two alternating colors, arranged in eight vertical and eight horizontal rows, on which checkers or chess is played.
    • : a design resembling this: The garden was laid out in a checkerboard.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to arrange in or mark with a checkerboard pattern: a wall checkerboarded with black and white tiles.

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Examples

  • Artists before Beeple had turned their works into NFTs but Beeple was the first to transform a checkerboard of 5,000 images into a single NFT, which tickled the fancy of Christie’s, no less.

  • Every day he works, no matter how hot, he layers up to protect himself from pesticides and the sun, driving out of Oasis Mobile Home Park into that gray-green checkerboard to plant, pick or pack strawberries or cauliflower or broccoli or carrots.

  • If you’ve ever traced the checkerboard squares of public land or needed to find the edges of your own property, you’ve seen those survey lines, which stretch perfectly straight across paper maps.

  • Three types of interactions result in stacked sheets of chromosomes, giving the heat maps that checkerboard or mattress look.

  • It’s easy enough to get your hands on a pair of neon, leather, or checkerboard pants at this point.

  • While it preserves a checkerboard of forest, the result on wildlife is devastating.

  • I remember this pair of Capri pants, the backs were checkerboard and the fronts were black.

  • The once-Republican Solid South is starting to look like a blue-and-red checkerboard, writes Lloyd Green.

  • A moment later a maid placed on the table beside the checkerboard a tray, with a decanter and glasses, and a pitcher of water.

  • Then cut them into thin slices for serving and they will be found to resemble a checkerboard.

  • Ezra goes too, and sometimes we take the old checkerboard and have a game or so.

  • The streets lay parallel and at right angles like the lines on a checkerboard.

  • It will even strive to imitate a black and white checkerboard.