CHECKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does checked mean? 

• CHECKED (adjective)
  The adjective CHECKED has 1 sense:

1. patterned with alternating squares of color

  Familiarity information: CHECKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHECKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Patterned with alternating squares of color

Synonyms:

checked; checkered; chequered

Similar:

patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))

 Context examples 

Following the finding of that first crater, Joe MacGregor, a glaciologist with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, checked topographic maps of the rock beneath Greenland’s ice for signs of other craters.

(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

"My dress is blue and white checked," said Dorothy, smoothing out the wrinkles in it.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Contractors are often the weak link in any home-related project, so hopefully, you have thoroughly checked the references of the one you chose.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But when the team checked the activity of the microglial cells across the four groups, they found that it had also ramped up in the chronically sleep-deprived group.

(Lack of Sleep Makes Brain to Literally Eat Itself, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They then checked this timeline against the fossil record of terrestrial animal evolution.

(Enterococci may have evolved antimicrobial resistance millions of years ago, NIH)

If the tumor stays small, you may only need to have it checked regularly.

(Acoustic Neuroma, NIH: National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders)

Then, they added data that appear to come from a planet, but were actually false signals, and checked how often the analysis mistook these for planet candidates.

(NASA Releases Kepler Survey Catalog with Hundreds of New Planet Candidates, NASA)

The team checked blood glucose levels in study participants years before they died, finding that greater increases in blood glucose levels correlated with greater brain glucose levels at death.

(Higher brain glucose levels may mean more severe Alzheimer’s, National Institutes of Health)

It was involuntary, spasmodic, checked, and stifled—he noted that as he turned about.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Mr. Darcy smiled; but Elizabeth thought she could perceive that he was rather offended, and therefore checked her laugh.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)