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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: checkered (0.00867 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to checkered.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: checkered
checkered
adj 1: patterned with alternating squares of color [syn:
checked,
chequered]
2: marked by changeable fortune;
“a checkered business career”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Checkered
Checkered
\Check"ered\ (ch[e^]k"[~e]rd), a.
1. Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color
or material.
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Dancing in the checkered shade. --Milton.
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2. Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in
appearance, character, circumstances, etc.; as, a
character with a checkered past
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This checkered narrative. --Macaulay.
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Checker
\Check"er\ (ch[e^]k"[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Checkered (ch[e^]k"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n.
Checkering.]
[From OF. eschequier a chessboard, F. ['e]chiquier. See
Check, n., and cf. 3d
Checker.]
1. To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by
crossing stripes of different colors.
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2. To variegate or diversify with different qualities,
colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent
alternations of prosperity and adversity.
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Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and
falsehood. --Addison.
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