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checkered
(encz) | checkered,kostkovaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Checkered
(gcide) | Checker \Check"er\ (ch[e^]k"[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Checkered (ch[e^]k"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Checkering.]
[From OF. eschequier a chessboard, F. ['e]chiquier. See
Check, n., and cf. 3d Checker.]
1. To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by
crossing stripes of different colors.
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2. To variegate or diversify with different qualities,
colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent
alternations of prosperity and adversity.
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Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and
falsehood. --Addison.
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Checkered
(gcide) | Checkered \Check"ered\ (ch[e^]k"[~e]rd), a.
1. Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color
or material.
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Dancing in the checkered shade. --Milton.
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2. Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in
appearance, character, circumstances, etc.; as, a
character with a checkered past
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This checkered narrative. --Macaulay.
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checkered
(wn) | checkered
adj 1: patterned with alternating squares of color [syn:
checked, checkered, chequered]
2: marked by changeable fortune; "a checkered business career" |
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checkered
(encz) | checkered,kostkovaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
checkered adder
(encz) | checkered adder, n: |
checkered career
(encz) | checkered career, |
checkered daffodil
(encz) | checkered daffodil, n: |
checkered lily
(encz) | checkered lily, n: |
checkered whiptail
(encz) | checkered whiptail, n: |
checked checkered
(gcide) | patterned \patterned\ adj.
Having describable patterns, especially patterns of colors.
[Narrower terms: banded, blotched, blotchy, splotched,
brindled, brindle, brinded, tabby, burled, {checked,
checkered}, dappled, mottled, {dotted, flecked, specked,
speckled, stippled}, figured, floral, flowered, laced,
marbled, marbleized, moire, watered, {pinstriped,
pinstripe(prenominal)}, slashed, streaked, spotted,
sprigged, streaked, streaky, striped, stripy,
tessellated, veined, venose] plain, solid
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checkered
(wn) | checkered
adj 1: patterned with alternating squares of color [syn:
checked, checkered, chequered]
2: marked by changeable fortune; "a checkered business career" |
checkered adder
(wn) | checkered adder
n 1: nonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped
occipital spot; southeastern ones have red stripes like
coral snakes [syn: milk snake, house snake, {milk
adder}, checkered adder, Lampropeltis triangulum] |
checkered daffodil
(wn) | checkered daffodil
n 1: Eurasian checkered lily with pendant flowers usually veined
and checkered with purple or maroon on a pale ground and
shaped like the bells carried by lepers in medieval times;
widely grown as an ornamental [syn: {snake's head
fritillary}, guinea-hen flower, checkered daffodil,
leper lily, Fritillaria meleagris] |
checkered lily
(wn) | checkered lily
n 1: any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having
nodding variously colored flowers [syn: fritillary,
checkered lily] |
checkered whiptail
(wn) | checkered whiptail
n 1: markings are darker and more marked than in western
whiptail; from southeastern Colorado to eastern Chihuahua
[syn: checkered whiptail, Cnemidophorus tesselatus] |
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