hound's-tooth check

Questions about hound's-tooth check

What is another word for hound's-tooth check?

It depends which hound's-tooth check you mean. In the sense “textile with a pattern of small broken or jagged checks”, the synonyms are houndstooth check, dogstooth check, dogs-tooth check, dog's-tooth check. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of hound's-tooth check?

WordNet records no antonym for hound's-tooth check. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for hound's-tooth check come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for hound's-tooth checkAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for hound's-tooth checkWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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