Meaning

1 senses

  1. To checker; to mark with an alternating pattern of light and dark.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. We play chess on a checkerboard.

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  2. We play chess with a checkerboard.

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  3. It's hard to get good-quality checkerboards on the internet.

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Origin

From checker + board.

From checker + board.

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Forms

checkerboards, checkerboarding, checkerboarded, checkerboarded
Base formcheckerboard · to checkerboard
3rd person singularcheckerboards
Present participlecheckerboarding
Past simplecheckerboarded
Past participlecheckerboarded

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycheckerboard
he, she, itcheckerboards

Past simpleLesson

all personscheckerboarded

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave checkerboarded
he, she, ithas checkerboarded

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill checkerboard

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
checkA1checkerchecklistcheckmate

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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