Word Meanings - CHECKWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.

Related words: (words related to CHECKWORK)

• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• ALTERNATENESS
  The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
• CHECKERBOARD
  A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.
• ALTERNATE
  Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence. Gray. Alternate alligation. See Alligation. -- Alternate angles , the internal and angles made by two lines with a third, on
• ALTERNATELY
  By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent. (more info) 1. In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
• ANYTHING
  1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• SUBALTERNATE
  1. Succeeding by turns; successive. 2. Subordinate; subaltern; inferior. All their subalternate and several kinds. Evelyn.
• XANTHOSE
  An orange-yellow substance found in pigment spots of certain crabs.
• FELDSPATHIC; FELDSPATHOSE
  Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.
• PYOXANTHOSE
  A greenish yellow crystalline coloring matter found with pyocyanin in pus.
• BOOTHOSE
  1. Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots. Shak. 2. Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback. Sir W. Scott.