checkered

　 　

WordNet

1. marked by changeable fortune; "a checkered business career"
2. markings are darker and more marked than in western whiptail; from southeastern Colorado to eastern Chihuahua (同)Cnemidophorus tesselatus
3. variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns (同)chequer
4. one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers (同)chequer
5. an attendant who checks coats or baggage
6. one who checks the correctness of something

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1. 格子じまの / 変化に富んだ
2. 〈C〉《米》《通例複数形で》《単数扱い》チェッカー(各自12ずつのこまで遊ぶはさみ将棋に似た遊戯;そのこま;《英》draught) / 〈U〉格子じま;〈C〉(その模様の)ひと目(《英》chequer) / …'を'格子模様にする;変化させる(《英》chequer)

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Cloth of green gingham in check pattern

The original check pattern was the ancient oriental chess-board

A heraldic escutcheon chequy gules and argent

Stylish check patterned Zentai

A check (also checker, Brit: chequer) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines forming squares.

Etymology

The word is derived from the ancient Persian language word shah, meaning "king", from the oriental game of chess, played on a squared board, particularly from the expression shah mat, "the king is dead", in modern chess parlance "check-mate". The word entered the French language as echec in the 11th century, thence into English.

Use in fabrics

Check-patterned fabrics display bands in two or more colours in woven cloth. Checks are traditionally associated with Scotland where woven dyed wool was, at one time, a principal cloth. District checks were created as camouflage for moving inconspicuously on the laird's lands. The checks are associated with a specific area as opposed to the tartan of a family or clan. Checks are also used as distinctive patterns for woven cloth in modern designs.

Other uses

The check pattern is also used in many areas other than textile styles, for example: on a board used by the mediaeval Exchequer to perform financial computations, and on a board used for playing checkers and chess, and in heraldry.

See also

• Argyle (pattern)
• Battenburg markings
• Checkered flag
• Diapering
• Flannel
• Gingham
• Madras (cloth)
• Plaid (pattern)
• Square tiling
• Stripe (pattern)
• Tartan
• Tattersall (cloth)

Sources

• Harrison, E.S.; Our Scottish District Checks; National Association of Woollen Manufacturers, Edinburgh; 1968 p6.

References

English Journal

• Do physical habitat complexity and predator cues influence the baseline and stress-induced glucocorticoid levels of a mangrove-associated fish?

• Magel JM1, Pleizier N2, Wilson AD2, Shultz AD3, Vera Chang MN4, Moon TW4, Cooke SJ2.
• Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part A, Molecular & integrative physiology.Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol.2017 Jan;203:281-287. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2016.10.004. Epub 2016 Oct 13.
• As human populations continue to expand, increases in coastal development have led to the alteration of much of the world's mangrove habitat, creating problems for the multitude of species that inhabit these unique ecosystems. Habitat alteration often leads to changes in habitat complexity and preda
• PMID 27746133

• Pinus ponderosa: A checkered past obscured four species.

• Willyard A1, Gernandt DS2, Potter K3, Hipkins V4, Marquardt P5, Mahalovich MF6, Langer SK7, Telewski FW8, Cooper B9, Douglas C9, Finch K9, Karemera HH9, Lefler J9, Lea P9, Wofford A9.
• American journal of botany.Am J Bot.2016 Dec 28. doi: 10.3732/ajb.1600336. [Epub ahead of print]
• PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Molecular genetic evidence can help delineate taxa in species complexes that lack diagnostic morphological characters. Pinus ponderosa (Pinaceae; subsection Ponderosae) is recognized as a problematic taxon: plastid phylogenies of exemplars were paraphyletic, and mitochondrial p
• PMID 28031167

• The Checkered Divide.

• Gold JA1.
• Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry.Acad Psychiatry.2016 Dec;40(6):956-957. Epub 2016 Oct 7.
• PMID 27718166

Japanese Journal

• 地学者列伝 坂市太郎 : 明治-大正期を駆け抜けた波乱の地学者・炭鉱経営者

• 山田 直利
• 地球科学 = Earth science 73(3), 185-192, 2019-07
• NAID 40021974509

• 表紙解説 唐織 紅緑茶段御簾色紙短冊萩模様

• Museum (678), 3,69-73, 2019-02
• NAID 40021950386

• 低視力晴眼者を対象とした不均一背景における円形視標の見やすさ評価に関する検討　－ 弱視者を想定した輝度コントラスト評価図を用いた視認性推定法に関する研究(その3) －

• 岩田 三千子,加藤 洋子,中村 芳樹
• 日本建築学会環境系論文集 (755), 47-53, 2019-01
• … Furthermore, it suggested that visibility evaluation of people with normal visual acuity can be estimated from the ratio of the visibility threshold <i>C</i>-value.<br> In this study, as preliminary steps of study for actual low vision people, visibility evaluation experiments were conducted for low visual acuity people using circular objects with uniform or non-uniform (checkered) background. … When background was non-uniform (checkered), luminance contrast and size of the checkers were varied, too. …
• NAID 130007583747

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