Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: [kʰɹɒs] (also, especially formerly [kʰɹɔːs])
- (America) IPA: [kʰɹɔs]
- (cot-caught, Canada) IPA: [kʰɹɑs]
cross (plural crosses)
- A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
- Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one.
- (heraldiccharge) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
- Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross.
- (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
- (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
- She made the cross after swearing.
- 1811, Walter Scott, The Vision of Don Roderick:
- Before the cross has waned the crescent's ray.
- 'Tis where the cross is preached.
- (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
- She was wearing a cross on her necklace.
- (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
- It's a cross I must bear.
- '1641, Ben Jonson, Timber
- Heaven prepares good men with crosses.
- The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
- A quick cross of the road.
- (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
- (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
- Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler
- (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
- (football) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
- A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
- A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
- (obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.
- c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene iv]:
- I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse.
- (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
- A line drawn across or through another line.
- (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
- (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
- (production of cross-breeding or -fertilization) hybrid
- (cross on which Christ was crucified) True Cross
- French: croix
- German: Kreuz
- Italian: croce
- Portuguese: cruz, aspa, sautor
- Russian: крест
- Spanish: cruz, aspa
- French: signe de croix
- German: Kreuzzeichen
- Portuguese: sinal da cruz
- Russian: крест
- German: Kreuz
- French: direct du bras arrière
- German: Cross
- Italian: cross
- Portuguese: cruzado
- Russian: кросс
- Spanish: cruzado
- German: Flanke
- Italian: diagonale
- Portuguese: cruzamento
cross (comparative crosser, superlative crossest)
- Transverse; lying across the main direction.
- At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.
- the cross refraction of the second prism
- (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
- His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.
- (now, rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.50:
- As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences.
- a cross fortune
- the cross and unlucky issue of my design
- The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvellously cross to the common experience of mankind.
- We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross, / One must be happy by the other's loss.
- Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
- She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job.
- Please don't get cross at me. (or) Please don't get cross with me.
- He had received a cross answer from his mistress.
- Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
- cross interrogatories
- cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other
- French: transversal, transversale
- German: quer
- Portuguese: cruzado, atravessado, transversal
- Russian: попере́чный
- Spanish: atravesado, transversal, de través
- French: contraire
- German: entgegengesetzt, gegenüber
- Portuguese: oposto
- Russian: противополо́жный
- Spanish: contrario
- French: fâché, contrarié
- German: verärgert, böse
- Italian: irritato, arrabbiato
- Portuguese: irritado
- Russian: серди́тый
- Spanish: enfadado, enfurruñado, de morros (colloquial)
- (archaic) across
- She walked cross the mountains.
- A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village.
- cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
- The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.
- dot
- × (the multiplication sign)
- Portuguese: produto vetorial
cross (crosses, present participle crossing; past and past participle crossed)
- To make or form a cross.
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- She frowned and crossed her arms.
- To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
- to cross the letter t
- To mark with an X.
- Cross the box which applies to you.
- To write lines at right angles.Crossed letter
- 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:
- An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
- (reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- To move relatively.
- (transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- Why did the chicken cross the road?
- You need to cross the street at the lights.
- (intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
- Ships crossing from starboard have right-of-way.
- (transitive) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
- Your kind letter crossed mine.
- (sports) Relative movement by a player or of players.
- (transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- (social) To oppose.
- (transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- "You'll rue the day you tried to cross me, Tom Hero!" bellowed the villain.
- (transitive, obsolete) To interfere and cut off ; to debar.
- c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene ii]:
- to cross me from the golden time I look for
- (legal) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
- (transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
- They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.
- To stamp or mark a cheque in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
- (to cross-fertilize or crossbreed) cross-fertilize, crossbreed
- French: traverser, franchir
- German: kreuzen, überqueren
- Italian: attraversare
- Portuguese: atravessar, cruzar
- Russian: пересека́ть
- Spanish: atravesar, pasar
- French: contrecarrer, déjouer
- German: kreuzen plan, konterkarieren, hintergehen person
- Italian: intralciare, ostacolare
- Portuguese: opor
- Spanish: cruzar
- French: faire le signe de la croix, signer
- German: sich bekreuzigen
- Portuguese: persignar-se, fazer o sinal da cruz
- Russian: крести́ться
- Spanish: santiguarse, persignarse
Cross
Proper noun
- (Christianity) Alternative spelling of cross; sometimes used when referring to the historical cross on which Jesus died
- Surname for someone who lived near a stone cross on a road.
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