checker-board
1checker board — noun a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors • Syn: ↑checkerboard • Hypernyms: ↑board, ↑gameboard • Hyponyms: ↑chessboard, ↑chess board • …
2Checker Book Publishing Group — Type Private Industry Publishers of Comics Reprints Founded 2000 by Mark Thompson, Ben Rangel Paul Dubuc …
3checker — check|er [ˈtʃekə US ər] n [Sense: 1 3; Date: 1800 1900; Origin: CHECK2] [Sense: 4; Date: 1700 1800; Origin: checker chessboard ; CHECK24] 1.) AmE someone who works at the ↑checkout in a ↑ …
4checker — [[t]tʃe̱kə(r)[/t]] checkers 1) N UNCOUNT Checkers is a game for two people, played with 24 round pieces on a board. [AM] (in BRIT, use draughts) 2) N COUNT A checker is a person or machine that has the job of checking something. Modern word… …
5checker — check·er || tʃekÉ™ n. one of the squares of a checkered pattern; piece used in checkers (board game); one who checks, inspector, examiner v. diversify with color, variegate; mark like a checkerboard …
6chess board — noun a checkerboard used to play chess • Syn: ↑chessboard • Hypernyms: ↑checkerboard, ↑checker board • Part Holonyms: ↑chess set …
7Tables (board game) — Infobox Game subject name = Tables family image link = image caption = A backgammon board from Lebanon players = 2 (more in some variants) setup time = 0–30 seconds playing time = 5–30 minutes random chance = Dice skills = Strategy, Probability… …
8{‘Chubby’ }Checker — (1941– ) a US singer who was popular in the 1960s. He is mainly remembered for The Twist (1960) which created a craze (= something that is suddenly very popular or fashionable) for the dance of that name. He was born Ernest Evans and chose his… …
9Charles Walker (checkers player) — Charles Clendell Walker (born 1934) is a former Mississippi state checkers champion and minister. He founded the International Checker Hall of Fame in Petal, Mississippi in 1979.[1] Walker is also known in checkers history for his record setting… …
10Same color illusion — The same color illusion also known as Adelson s checker shadow illusion, checker shadow illusion and checker shadow is an optical illusion published by Edward H. Adelson, Professor of Vision Science at MIT in 1995.cite… …
