checker vs intarsia

checker

noun
  • A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard. 

  • One who makes a check mark. 

  • One who hinders or stops something. 

  • One who or that which checks or verifies something. 

  • The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment. 

  • The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis 

  • A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts). 

  • An individual square appearing in such a pattern. 

verb
  • To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard. 

  • To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard. 

intarsia

noun
  • A knitted design resembling a mosaic. 

  • A decorative form of Italian wood inlaying. 

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