Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- noun Any pattern of which the general effect is that of alternating squares of different colors.
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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