Cross

[krɒs] or [krɔs]

Definition

(noun.) a representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified; used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry.

(noun.) a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece.

(noun.) any affliction that causes great suffering; 'that is his cross to bear'; 'he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns'.

(verb.) trace a line through or across; 'cross your `t''.

(verb.) meet and pass; 'the trains crossed'.

(verb.) fold so as to resemble a cross; 'she crossed her legs'.

(verb.) to cover or extend over an area or time period; 'Rivers traverse the valley floor', 'The parking lot spans 3 acres'; 'The novel spans three centuries'.

(adj.) extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis; 'cross members should be all steel'; 'from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully'; 'transversal vibrations'; 'transverse colon' .

Edited by Allison--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals.

(n.) The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom.

(n.) Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.

(n.) A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also, that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.

(n.) An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross; a badge or ornamental device of the general shape of a cross; hence, such an ornament, even when varying considerably from that form; thus, the Cross of the British Order of St. George and St. Michael consists of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it.

(n.) A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London.

(n.) A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above.

(n.) The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write.

(n.) Church lands.

(n.) A line drawn across or through another line.

(n.) A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.

(n.) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.

(n.) A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle.

(a.) Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.

(a.) Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse.

(a.) Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.

(a.) Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other.

(prep.) Athwart; across.

(v. t.) To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms.

(v. t.) To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t.

(v. t.) To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.

(v. t.) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.

(v. t.) To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with.

(v. t.) To interfere and cut off; to debar.

(v. t.) To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.

(v. t.) To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name.

(v. t.) To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.

(v. i.) To lie or be athwart.

(v. i.) To move or pass from one side to the other, or from place to place; to make a transit; as, to cross from New York to Liverpool.

(v. i.) To be inconsistent.

(v. i.) To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.

Checker: Mandy

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Gibbet (made of pieces of wood placed transversely).[2]. [With The prefixed.] Gospel, Christian doctrine, Christian religion, divine revelation.[3]. Trial, vexation, trouble, affliction, misfortune.[4]. Intermixture (of blood in races).

a. [1]. Transverse, lying athwart.[2]. Fretful, peevish, petulant, pettish, snappish, waspish, touchy, testy, crusty, churlish, crabbed, captious, ill-natured, froward, morose, sulky, sullen, spleeny, surly, cynical, snarling, sour, GROUTY, ill-tempered, out of humor, out of temper.

v. a. [1]. Put across, put athwart.[2]. Mark with a line or lines across.[3]. Traverse, pass over, go over.[4]. Thwart, hinder, obstruct, interfere with.

Inputed by Hubert

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Ill-tempered, fretful, illhumored, crusty, peevish, pettish, snarling,snappish, spleeny, splenetic, petulant, fractious

ANT:Amiable, good-tempered, goodhumored, blithesome, genial

Typist: Ted

Definition

adj. lying across: transverse: oblique: opposite: adverse: ill-tempered: interchanged: dishonest: balancing neutralising.—adv. across.—n. a crossing or mixing of breeds esp. of cattle: something intermediate in character between two other things: dishonest practices esp. in a sporting contest when one of the parties corruptly allows himself to be beaten.—v.t. to lay one body or draw one line across another: to cancel by drawing cross lines: to pass from side to side: to write across a bank-cheque the name of a banking company or simply '& Co.' between the lines to be filled up with the name of a banking company through whom alone it may be paid: to obstruct: to thwart: to interfere with.—v.i. to lie or be athwart: to move or pass from place to place.—n. Cross′-ac′tion (law) an action brought by the defender against the pursuer in the same cause.—adjs. Cross′-armed having the arms crossed: (bot.) brachiate; Cross′-band′ed having the grain of the veneer run across that of the rail—of a hand-rail.—n. Cross′-bar a transverse bar: a kind of lever.—adj. Cross′-barred.—ns. Cross′-beam a large beam stretching across a building and serving to hold its sides together; Cross′-bench in the House of Lords certain benches so placed on which independent members sometimes sit; Cross′-bill a bill brought by the defendant in a Chancery suit against the plaintiff; Cross′-bill a genus of birds resembling bullfinches linnets &c. with the mandibles of the bill crossing each other near the points; Cross′-birth a birth in which the child lies transversely in the uterus.—v.t. Cross′bite to bite the biter.—n.pl. Cross′-bones a figure of two thigh-bones laid across each other—together with the skull a conventional emblem of death.—ns. Cross′bow a weapon for shooting arrows formed of a bow placed crosswise on a stock; Cross′bower -bowman one who uses a crossbow.—adj. Cross′-bred.—ns. Cross′-breed a breed produced by the crossing or intermixing of different races; Cross′-breed′ing; Cross′-butt′ock a particular throw over the hip in wrestling; Cross′-cheque (see Cheque).—adj. Cross′-coun′try across the fields rather than by the road.—n. Cross′-cut a short road across from one point to another.—v.t. to cut across.—ns. Cross′cut-saw a large saw worked by two men one at each end for cutting beams crosswise; Cross′-divi′sion the division of any group into divisions that cut across each other and produce confusion.—adj. Crossed marked by a line drawn crosswise often denoting cancellation: folded: cruciate.—n. Cross′-examinā′tion.—v.t. Cross′-exam′ine to test the evidence of a witness by subjecting him to an examination by the opposite party.—adj. Cross′-eyed having a squint.—ns. Cross′-fertilisā′tion the fecundation of a plant by pollen from another; Cross′-fire (mil.) the crossing of lines of fire from two or more points; Cross′-gar′net a T-shaped hinge.—adjs. Cross′-gar′tered (Shak.) wearing the garters crossed on the leg; Cross′-grained having the grain or fibres crossed or intertwined: perverse: contrary: intractable.—ns. Cross′-grain′edness; Cross′-guard the bar at right angles to the blade forming the hilt-guard of a sword; Cross′-hatch′ing the art of shading by parallel intersecting lines; Cross′-head a beam across the head of something esp. the bar at the end of the piston-rod of a steam-engine; Cross′ing act of going across: the place where a roadway &c. may be crossed: intersection: act of thwarting: cross-breeding.—adj. Cross′-legged having the legs crossed.—adv. Cross′ly.—ns. Cross′ness; Cross′-patch an ill-natured person; Cross′-piece a piece of material of any kind crossing another: (naut.) a timber over the windlass with pins for belaying the running rigging; Cross′-pur′pose a contrary purpose: contradictory conduct or system: an enigmatical game; Cross′-quar′ters an ornament of tracery like the four petals of a cruciform flower: a quatrefoil.—v.t. Cross′-ques′tion to question minutely to cross-examine.—ns. Cross′-ref′erence a reference in a book to another title or passage; Cross′-road a road crossing the principal road a bypath; Cross′-row (same as Christ-cross-row); Cross′-sea a sea that sets at an angle to the direction of the wind; Cross′-sill a railroad sleeper lying under the rails transversely as a support to the stringer; Cross′-spring′er a cross-rib in a groined vault; Cross′-staff a surveying instrument consisting of a staff surmounted with a brass circle divided into four equal parts by two intersecting lines; Cross′-stone chiastolite: staurolite: harmotome; Cross′-tie in a railroad a timber placed under opposite rails as a support; Cross′-tin′ing a mode of harrowing crosswise.—n.pl. Cross′trees pieces of timber placed across the upper end of the lower-masts and top-masts of a ship.—ns. Cross′-vault′ing vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults; Cross′way a way that crosses another; Cross′-wind an unfavourable wind a side-wind.—adv. Cross′wise in the form of a cross: across.—Cross as two sticks particularly perverse and disagreeable.—Cross the path of any one to thwart him; Cross one's mind to flash across the mind.

n. a gibbet on which malefactors were hung consisting of two pieces of timber one placed crosswise on the other either thus or : the instrument on which Christ suffered and thus the symbol of the Christian religion: the sufferings of Christ: the atonement effected by these: a representation of the cross a staff surmounted by a cross a monument model or ornament in the form of a cross esp. that in this form in the centre of a town at which proclamations are made &c.: (Scot.) a signal or call to arms sent throughout a district being a cross of two sticks charred and dipped in blood (Fiery cross): the transverse part of an anchor or the like: a surveyor's cross-staff: anything that crosses or thwarts: a crossing or crossway: adversity or affliction in general.—v.t. to mark with a cross or to make the sign of the cross.—ns. Cross′-aisle a transept aisle of a cruciform church; Cross′-bear′er one who carries a cross in a procession; Cross′-bun a bun marked with the form of a cross eaten on Good-Friday; Cross′ing the making the sign of the cross; Cross′-stitch a double stitch in the form of a cross; Cross′let a little cross.—Crost obsolete pa.p. of Cross.—Cross-and-pile the obverse and reverse side of a coin head and tail; Cross of Calvary the Latin cross or cross of crucifixion elevated on three steps; Cross of Jerusalem one having each arm capped by a cross-bar; Cross of Lorraine a cross with two horizontal arms combining the Greek and Latin crosses; Cross of St James a Latin cross figured as a sword; Cross of St Patrick the saltier cross of Ireland (red on a white ground).—Cross one's mind to flash across the mind; Cross the path of any one to thwart him.—Ansate cross (crux ansata) a common symbol of immortality in ancient Egypt; Archiepiscopal cross the pastoral staff surmounted by a cross; Buddhist cross the gammadion or fylfot with returned arms a symbol found in prehistoric remains in Italy and elsewhere; Capital cross a Greek cross having each extremity terminated in an ornament like a Tuscan capital; Capuchin-cross a cross having each arm terminated by a ball; Celtic cross a type of cross found in Ireland and in the north and west of Scotland varying from a cross incised on a flat slate to an elaborate cruciform monument—some crosses of this type show Scandinavian workmanship and hence are often called Runic crosses; Greek cross an upright cross with limbs of equal length—the well-known Cross of St George (red on a white ground); Latin cross (crux immissa) an upright cross having the lower limb longer than the others; Maltese cross the badge of the knights of Malta converging to a point in the centre with two points to each limb; Norman cross an elaborate memorial cross like a Gothic turret set on the ground or on the base of a few steps with niches for figures and pinnacles; Patriarchal cross a cross with two horizontal bars; Rouen cross a cross in fretwork as a brooch or pendant; St Andrew's cross (crux decussata) or Cross saltier a cross of two shafts of equal length crossed diagonally at the middle—the saltier cross of Scotland (white on a blue ground); St Anthony's cross (crux commissa) shaped like a ; Southern cross a constellation in the Antarctic region where the stars are in the form of a cross.

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