CHEQUER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chequer mean? 

• CHEQUER (noun)
  The noun CHEQUER has 1 sense:

1. one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers

  Familiarity information: CHEQUER used as a noun is very rare.

• CHEQUER (verb)
  The verb CHEQUER has 2 senses:

1. mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on

2. variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns

  Familiarity information: CHEQUER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEQUER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

checker; chequer

Hypernyms ("chequer" is a kind of...):

man; piece (game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games)

Domain category:

checkers; draughts (a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chequer"):

king (a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward)

• CHEQUER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they chequer    ... he / she / it chequers   
Past simple: chequered   
Past participle: chequered   
-ing form: chequering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

check; checker; chequer

Hypernyms (to "chequer" is one way to...):

draw (represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

checker; chequer

Hypernyms (to "chequer" is one way to...):

motley; variegate; vary (make something more diverse and varied)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Such is the Bench in my chequered career.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her happiness on this occasion was very much a la mortal, finely chequered.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The western end was already steeped in moonshine; the rest, and the block house itself, still lay in a black shadow chequered with long silvery streaks of light.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He had since heard her express herself differently, with other feelings, more chequered feelings: he had heard her tell Mrs. Grant that she should leave her with regret; that she began to believe neither the friends nor the pleasures she was going to were worth those she left behind; and that though she felt she must go, and knew she should enjoy herself when once away, she was already looking forward to being at Mansfield again.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I learnt, from this, that Miss Mills had had her trials in the course of a chequered existence; and that to these, perhaps, I might refer that wise benignity of manner which I had already noticed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)