Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any pattern of which the general effect is that of alternating squares of different colors.
- noun In a regenerative furnace or water-gas plant, a mass of loose bricks inclosed in an upright cylindrical chamber and loosely piled in alternate layers to form an open mass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.
- noun Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Work consisting of or showing
checkers , varied alternately by colour or material. - noun figuratively Any
aggregate of variedvicissitudes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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On another day, in order to see a series of dam collapses that had forced the evacuation of more than a dozen villages, I rode on the back of a motorcycle along a maze of embankments framing a checkerwork of paddy fields that glinted in the steamy rain.
Waterworld 2008
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On another day, in order to see a series of dam collapses that had forced the evacuation of more than a dozen villages, I rode on the back of a motorcycle along a maze of embankments framing a checkerwork of paddy fields that glinted in the steamy rain.
Waterworld 2008
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On another day, in order to see a series of dam collapses that had forced the evacuation of more than a dozen villages, I rode on the back of a motorcycle along a maze of embankments framing a checkerwork of paddy fields that glinted in the steamy rain.
Waterworld 2008
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On his wise shoulders through the checkerwork of leaves the sun flung spangles, dancing coins.
Ulysses 2003
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And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits: and nets of checkerwork, and wreaths of chainwork, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
1 Kings 7. 1999
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Chicago, like more and more of Abidjan, is a slum in the bush: a checkerwork of corrugated zinc roofs and walls made of cardboard and black plastic wrap.
The Coming Anarchy 1994
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Chicago, like more and more of Abidjan, is a slum in the bush: a checkerwork of corrugated zinc roofs and walls made of cardboard and black plastic wrap.
The Coming Anarchy 1994
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She paused for a moment, hating the silent checkerwork of moonlight and shadow in the room outside and sensing through her skin the shortness of time.
The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986
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Fuel in the form of coke, breeze or small coal2 is then spread between the checkerwork bricks, covering the latter with a layer at least 20 cm thick.
Chapter 10 1984
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A flat, dry area of land is first chosen, and a checkerwork pattern of spaced out, already burnt bricks laid down over an area of approximately 15 m by 12 m.
Chapter 10 1984
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