(a.) Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.
(a.) Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) • You can make a quick search for outstanding NS&I premium bond prizes online using the prize checker .
(2) in normal subjects indicates that the better results obtained with reversible checker-board stimulation can be attributed to greater reproductibility of the response.
(3) Laura Minnett is a 'quality checker' with the charity, Choice Support.
(4) The current study aimed to examine sociodemographic and clinical variables between washer and checker subgroups of obsessive compulsive disorder.
(5) Field and Barros were said to have put every figure in this report through a battery of fact checkers.
(6) Stuart, our guide from Wilderness Scotland, is easy-going and unassuming, and also a font of knowledge and a meticulous safety checker.
(7) This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of a silicone disclosing medium, G-C Fit-Checker, as an aid in the improvement of marginal integrity.
(8) Terkel won a Pulitzer prize for these stories, like that of Hobart Foote, or Babe Secoli the supermarket checker, who described customers engaged in something less like shopping than dodgem cars with trolleys, and garbage man Nick Salerno, discoursing on his long experience of how people pack their rubbish: "You get just like the milkman's horse — used to it."
(9) These conditions consisted of (a) playing Chinese checkers underwater, (b) swimming with eyes open underwater, (c) viewing a square underwater, and (d) an air control.
(10) In 21 patients with parkinsonism and 20 healthy controls visual potentials evoked with checker pattern used as an alternating stimulus were studied.
(11) The latency of the first major positive component (P100) of VECPs was measured using checker board pattern stimuli under varying conditions of spatial frequency (112', 56', 28', 14', 7').
(12) It was meant to be a quick knock-off of a novelty dance fad single, in the vein of Chubby Checker's It's Pony Time or Dee Dee Sharp's Do the Bird, and on one level, a quick knock-off was clearly what it was: Reed couldn't even be bothered to write his own riff, pinching it from the Crystals' 1963 smash Then He Kissed Me .
(13) Checkers' errors per tray did not change significantly from control to experimental period when data for the two periods were compared.
(14) Thus, the notion that compulsive checkers as opposed to compulsive cleaners emerge from two different parental rearing patterns was not sustained in this instance.
(15) Of 412 subjects seen during 1975-1984, there were 123 washers, 70 checkers and 89 washers and checkers (mixed group).
(16) American Bandstand provided the first national television appearances for the likes of Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and Chubby Checker.
(17) Rudd is asked why he persists in using the $70bn Coalition cuts figure when the fact checkers say it's wrong.
(18) Combined actions of aspoxicillin (ASPC) with several aminoglycosides (AGs) against various Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains were examined using the checker board method and experimental infection of mice, and the actions were compared with those of piperacillin (PIPC) and mezlocillin (MZPC).
(19) As the writer Clay Shirky put it, Democrats who respond to Trump by patiently noting his contradictions and untruths are making a category error: “We’ve brought fact-checkers to a culture war”.
(20) Station operator and checker accuracy were measured in terms of ratio of error-free trays, errors per tray, and errors to possibility of errors per tray.
Gingham
Definition:
(n.) A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.
Example Sentences:
(1) GBBO might raise the question of which murky figure is pushing all this gingham-heavy Great British prefix TV.
(2) Only authenticity.” It’s not as though the owner of Farmer’s Daughter, the LA motel with the old agricultural equipment and swaths of gingham hanging from the walls that Self writes about, thinks they’re Michelangelo.
(3) There had been female singers in country music before – the indefatigably yodelling Patsy Montana; Molly O'Day, all gingham and tears; the regal Sara Carter – but they always required the presence of male protectors: singing husbands or an all-male backing band.
(4) During the Canadian dragon race he wore a blue and white gingham shirt with several buttons open, with grey denim and an Aztec-style belt.
(5) In a demented attempt to help misguided women foolish enough to make commit this fashion faux pax, one establishment offered me a wrap-around gingham skirt that I could don over my slacks and thereby gain entrance to the power brokers' dining room.
(6) Yes, yes, Whitstable went all Padstow years ago: now you can't move for organic nappies and Cath Kidston gingham curtains.
(7) The walls are set about with union jack bunting, and at the front of the tent are tables with gingham cloths, little assemblages of wicker baskets to evoke a picnic outing from the 1950s, and eggshell-blue-painted dressers and chests adorned with china, enamel jugs and vintage bread bins.
(8) There are brightly coloured rocking chairs in the rooms, gingham curtains, denim bedspreads and if you're in the mood for love there's a "No-Tell Room" where you'll find mirrors on the ceiling and a fully stocked bar, as well as a mural of a wheat field to inspire a roll around in the hay.
(9) Beckham’s collection on the runway was a riot of colour and print – gingham, pumpkin orange, hibiscus flowers, an image of a surfer on a wave and windowpane checks, sometimes all in the same outfit.