checkerboard

English

Alternative forms

• chequerboard

Etymology

From checker +‎ board.

Noun

checkerboard (plural checkerboards)

1. A pattern of squares of alternating colours.
2. A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 8×8 squares, used to play chess and draughts/checkers.
3. (film) A style of negative cutting that avoids visible splice marks.

Synonyms

• (board for draughts): draughtboard

Derived terms

• checkerboard rendering
• Croatian checkerboard

 

Translations

pattern of squares of alternating colours

• Finnish: ruutukuvio, shakkikuvio
• French: damier (fr) m
• Italian: scacchiera (it) f
• Middle English: cheker
• Polish: szachownica (pl) f
• Spanish: escaque (es) m

game board

• Bulgarian: шахматна дъска (šahmatna dǎska)
• Catalan: àbac (ca) m
• Finnish: shakkilauta (fi)
• French: damier (fr) m, échiquier (fr) m
• Galician: tableiro m
• Ido: damoplanko (io)
• Italian: scacchiera (it) f
• Middle English: cheker
• Plautdietsch: Daumbrat n
• Portuguese: tabuleiro (pt) m
• Russian: ша́хматная доска́ (ru) f (šáxmatnaja doská)
• Spanish: tablero (es) m, tablero de damas m, damero (es) m
• Tagalog: damahan

Verb

checkerboard (third-person singular simple present checkerboards, present participle checkerboarding, simple past and past participle checkerboarded)

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