What's the difference between checkered and square?

Checkered


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Checker
  • (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.

Square


Definition:

  • (n.) The corner, or angle, of a figure.
  • (n.) A parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles.
  • (n.) Hence, anything which is square, or nearly so
  • (n.) A square piece or fragment.
  • (n.) A pane of glass.
  • (n.) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; -- used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
  • (n.) One hundred superficial feet.
  • (n.) An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets.
  • (n.) An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc.
  • (n.) Hence, a pattern or rule.
  • (n.) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; thus, 64 is the square of 8, for 8 / 8 = 64; the square of a + b is a2 + 2ab + b2.
  • (n.) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
  • (n.) A body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry; a squadron.
  • (n.) Fig.: The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
  • (n.) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
  • (n.) The act of squaring, or quarreling; a quarrel.
  • (n.) The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
  • (a.) Having four equal sides and four right angles; as, a square figure.
  • (a.) Forming a right angle; as, a square corner.
  • (a.) Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame.
  • (a.) Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just.
  • (a.) Rendering equal justice; exact; fair; honest, as square dealing.
  • (a.) Even; leaving no balance; as, to make or leave the accounts square.
  • (a.) Leaving nothing; hearty; vigorous.
  • (a.) At right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; -- said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
  • (n.) To form with four sides and four right angles.
  • (n.) To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square mason's work.
  • (n.) To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
  • (n.) To adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; to fit; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others.
  • (n.) To make even, so as leave no remainder of difference; to balance; as, to square accounts.
  • (n.) To multiply by itself; as, to square a number or a quantity.
  • (n.) To hold a quartile position respecting.
  • (n.) To place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards.
  • (v. i.) To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit.
  • (v. i.) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
  • (v. i.) To take a boxing attitude; -- often with up, sometimes with off.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
  • (2) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
  • (3) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.
  • (4) The summary statistics examined are (a) the slope of the least-squares regression of the marker, (b) the average of the last r measurements, and (c) the difference between the averages of the last r and the first s measurements.
  • (5) High concordance was observed between a positive test and relapse during the period of study (chi-square = 27.53, P less than 0.001).
  • (6) At 1 month the rate of production of 6-keto-PGF1 alpha per square millimeter of surface area of experimental segments was normal.
  • (7) In this paper we propose an alternative approach, based on a simple adjustment of the standard Pearson chi-square test for the equality of proportions.
  • (8) After restrained least-squares refinement of the enzyme-substrate complex with the riboflavin omitted from the model, additional electron density appeared near the pyrophosphate, which indicated the presence of an ADPR molecule in the FAD binding site of PHBH.
  • (9) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
  • (10) The feasibility of estimating these parameters, demonstrated by the present study, suggests that a recursive least squares estimation procedure could be used to recover the time variation of each parameter during exercise stress testing of subjects with normal or nearly normal gas exchange.
  • (11) Concentrations of DLIS were detectable in significantly more (58.3%) of the 12 CHF patients (group A) who were not receiving digoxin than in the 22 normal volunteers tested (13.6%) (P less than 0.05 by both chi-square and Fisher's exact test).
  • (12) According to the duration of filtered QRS (fQRS), to the voltage of root mean square of the terminal 40 ms (RMS 40) and to the duration of low amplitude terminal components of the sinus cycles, ventricular late potentials were detected in nine out of 29 subjects.
  • (13) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
  • (14) The overall median density was 123 cells per field, which corresponds to 6,950 cells per square mm.
  • (15) The structure of Mn(III) superoxide dismutase (Mn(III)SOD) from Thermus thermophilus, a tetramer of chains 203 residues in length, has been refined by restrained least-squares methods.
  • (16) SSR was evoked by square wave electric stimulation through a pair of surface electrodes placed on the unilateral forearm.
  • (17) After excluding isonymous matings the chi-square values for unique and nonunique surname pairs remained significant for both religious groups.
  • (18) Over the past year, under the rule of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi , security forces have ousted street sellers from the core of the city centre and prominent locations such as Ramses Square, home to Cairo’s main train terminal.
  • (19) The ideal body weight (kg) of each individual can be calculated by the following formula: ideal body mass index x the height (m)2, since body mass index is expressed by the body weight in kilogram divided by the height squared in meters.
  • (20) By comparison in the Netherlands, where there is a better technical training provision, every secondary school is built with an additional 650 square metres of non-academic training space; an investment of more than £1.5m per school.” The Association of School and College Leaders criticised the absence of more funding for students studying for A-levels.

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