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cross - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An upright post with a transverse piece near the top, on which condemned persons were executed in ancient times.
- noun The cross upon which Jesus was crucified.
- noun A crucifix.
- noun Any of various modifications of the cross design, such as a Latin cross or Maltese cross.
- noun A medal, emblem, or insignia in the form of a cross.
- noun The Christian religion; Christianity.
- noun Christianity The sign of the cross.
- noun A trial, affliction, or frustration. synonym: burden.
- noun A mark or pattern formed by the intersection of two lines, especially such a mark (X) used as a signature.
- noun A movement from one place to another, as on a stage; a crossing.
- noun A pipe fitting with four branches in upright and transverse form, used as a junction for intersecting pipes.
- noun Biology A plant or animal produced by crossbreeding; a hybrid.
- noun One that combines the qualities of two other things.
- noun A hook thrown over an opponent's punch in boxing.
- noun A pass made into the center of the field to a player in position to score, especially in soccer.
- noun Law An act or instance of cross-examining; a cross-examination.
- noun The Southern Cross.
- noun Slang A contest whose outcome has been dishonestly prearranged.
- intransitive verb To go or extend across; pass from one side of to the other.
- intransitive verb To carry or conduct across something.
- intransitive verb To extend or pass through or over; intersect.
- intransitive verb Sports To propel (a ball or puck) as a cross, as in soccer.
- intransitive verb To delete by drawing a line through.
- intransitive verb To eliminate or dismiss as unimportant or undesirable.
- intransitive verb To make or put a line across.
- intransitive verb To place crosswise one over the other.
- intransitive verb To make the sign of the cross upon or over as a sign of devotion or blessing.
- intransitive verb To encounter in passing.
- intransitive verb To combine the qualities of two things.
- intransitive verb To interfere with; thwart or obstruct.
- intransitive verb To betray or deceive; double-cross. Often used with up.
- intransitive verb Biology To crossbreed or cross-fertilize (plants or animals).
- intransitive verb Law To cross-examine.
- intransitive verb To lie or pass across each other; intersect.
- intransitive verb To move or extend from one side to another.
- intransitive verb To make a crossing.
- intransitive verb To meet in passing; come into conjunction.
- intransitive verb To move or be conveyed in opposite directions at the same time.
- intransitive verb Biology To crossbreed or cross-fertilize.
- adjective Lying or passing crosswise; intersecting.
- adjective Contrary or counter; opposing.
- adjective Showing ill humor; annoyed.
- adjective Involving interchange; reciprocal.
- adjective Crossbred; hybrid.
- adverb Crosswise.
- preposition Across.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English cros, from Old English, probably from Old Norse kross, from Old Irish cros, from Latin crux.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle English cross, cros, from Old English cros ("rood, cross"), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse kross ("cross"), perhaps from Old Irish cros (compare Welsh croes, Gaelic crois), from Latin crux. Cognate with Icelandic kross ("cross"), Danish kors ("cross"), Swedish kors ("cross"). Displaced native Middle English rood ("rood, cross"), from Old English rōd ("cross, rood, crucifix, pole"); see rood.
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Examples
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However, I love seeing the simple 'garden spider' / 'cross spider', the one that weaves beautiful webs in my garden and has a white cross pattern on its back.
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What makes you think anything about the cross dressing in 'cross and single speed MTB is ironic?
No Hope, No Pants: the CKHCI and the SSCXWC BikeSnobNYC 2008
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If we ask what the question is that the passage overall poses, or what the change is that needs to be taking place over the time of the passage's narration, it is about the move from desolation in the face of the cross (Jesus 'cross and the implicit demand for the disciple to carry the cross also) to confidence that the process is the work of love coming from and leading to the Father.
'The Bible Today: Reading & Hearing', The Larkin-Stuart Lecture 2007
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In fact, what came out in cross examination, through Mark Geragos 'cross examination, is that there were at least 243 different locations throughout the bay that were being searched by those divers.
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It crept onwards towards the station of the cross, but -- _it never reached the cross_.
The Wizard Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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II. ii.157 (47,6) [For I am that way going to temptation, Where prayers cross] Which way Angelo is going to temptation, we begin to perceive; but how _prayers cross_ that way, or cross each other, at that way, more than any other, I do not understand.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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World Cup soccer teams in terrorists 'cross hairs AL Qaeda has put the American and British soccer teams directly in its cross hairs, circulating word online that the athletes are prime targets for an attack at the World Cup Games in South Africa in June, FOXNews. com reports.
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World Cup soccer teams in terrorists 'cross hairs AL Qaeda has put the American and British soccer teams directly in its cross hairs, circulating word online that the athletes are prime targets for an attack at the World Cup Games in South Africa in June, FOXNews. com reports.
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World Cup soccer teams in terrorists 'cross hairs AL Qaeda has put the American and British soccer teams directly in its cross hairs, circulating word online that the athletes are prime targets for an attack at the World Cup Games in South Africa in June, FOXNews. com reports.
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World Cup soccer teams in terrorists 'cross hairs AL Qaeda has put the American and British soccer teams directly in its cross hairs, circulating word online that the athletes are prime targets for an attack at the World Cup Games in South Africa in June, FOXNews. com reports.
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Words with the same meaning
- Agnus Dei
- Calvary cross
- Cape Colored
- Christogram
- Eurasian
- Greek cross
- Holy Grail
- Host
- Jerusalem cross
- John Hancock
- Latin cross
- Malacca cane
- Maltese cross
- Russian cross
- Sanctus bell
- Sangraal
- T
- True Cross
- X
- abjure
- achievement
- across
- across the grain
- adversary
- adversative
- adverse
- adverse circumstances
- adversity
- affliction
- against the grain
- against the tide
- against the wind
- aggravation
- alerion
- alien
- alpenstock
- angered
- angry
- animal charge
- ankh
- annoyance
- annoyed
- annulet
- antagonistic
- antagonize
- anti
- antipathetic
- antipodal
- antithetic
- arch
- argent
- ark
- armorial bearings
- armory
- arms
- asperger
- asperges
- aspergillum
- assert the contrary
- at cross-purposes
- at daggers
- at daggers drawn
- at issue
- at loggerheads
- at odds
- at variance
- at war
- at war with
- athwart
- athwartships
- autograph
- avellan cross
- ax
- azure
- badge
- badge of office
- badges
- baffle
- balk
- bambino
- bandeau
- bar
- bar sinister
- barrow
- bastard
- baton
- be antipathetic
- be at cross-purposes
- be contrary to
- be inimical
- beadroll
- beads
- bearings
- bearish
- beat against
- belie
- bend
- bend sinister
- bestride
- bilk
- billet
- bitchy
- bitter cup
- bitter draft
- bitter draught
- bitter pill
- blast
- blazon
- blazonry
- blend
- bless
- blight
- block
- boat
- bordure
- boundary stone
- brass
- brassard
- brave
- broad arrow
- browned-off
- bummer
- burden
- burden of care
- burthen
- bust
- button
- bypass
- cadency mark
- cairn
- call into question
- calvary
- cancel
- candle
- cane
- cankered
- cankerworm of care
- canoe
- cantankerous
- canton
- cap and gown
- captious
- care
- cargo
- carping
- carry sail
- cast down
- cattalo
- caviling
- cenotaph
- censer
- chain
- chain of office
- challenge
- chaplet
- charge
- checkmate
- chevron
- chi
- chi-rho
- chiasmal
- chiasmic
- chiastic
- chief
- choleric
- christcross
- churlish
- ciborium
- cipher
- circumnavigate
- circumvent
- citrange
- clash
- clashing
- class ring
- coast
- coat of arms
- cockade
- cockatrice
- collar
- collide
- column
- combination
- competitive
- con
- conflict
- conflict with
- conflicting
- confound
- confront
- confute
- contest
- contra
- contradict
- contradictory
- contrapose
- contrarily
- contrariwise
- contrary
- contravene
- contrawise
- controvert
- coronet
- counter
- counteract
- counterattack
- countermand
- countermark
- counterpose
- countersign
- countersignature
- counterstamp
- countervail
- counterwork
- crabbed
- cranky
- crescent
- crest
- crisscross
- cromlech
- crook
- crosier
- cross ancre
- cross botonee
- cross bourdonee
- cross fitche
- cross fleury
- cross formee
- cross fourchee
- cross grignolee
- cross moline
- cross of Cleves
- cross of Lorraine
- cross patee
- cross recercelee
- cross-crosslet
- cross-fertilize
- cross-grained
- cross-shaped
- cross-staff
- crossbar
- crossbones
- crossbred
- crossbreed
- crosscut
- crossed
- crossing
- crosslet
- crosslike
- crossway
- crossways
- crosswise
- crotchety
- crown
- crown of thorns
- cruciate
- crucible
- cruciferous
- crucifix
- cruciform
- cruet
- cruise
- crusty
- crutch
- crutch-stick
- crux
- crux ansata
- crux capitata
- crux decussata
- crux gammata
- crux immissa
- crux ordinaria
- cumbrance
- cup
- curse
- cussed
- cut across
- cyclolith
- dagger
- dash
- deadweight
- death chair
- death chamber
- debar
- decoration
- decussate
- decussated
- defeat
- defeat expectation
- defy
- delete
- deny
- destroy
- device
- difference
- differencing
- differing
- difficulties
- difficulty
- disaccordant
- disadvantage
- disaffirm
- disagreeable
- disagreeing
- disallow
- disappoint
- disappointment
- disavow
- disclaim
- discomfit
- disconcert
- discordant
- discountenance
- discrepant
- dish
- disharmonious
- disillusion
- disown
- disproportionate
- disprove
- dispute
- disrupt
- dissatisfy
- dissentient
- dissident
- dissonant
- distress
- divergent
- dolmen
- double-cross
- downer
- dress
- drop
- eagle
- electric chair
- elude
- embarrassment
- emblems
- encumbrance
- endorsement
- enemy
- ensigns
- erase
- ermine
- ermines
- erminites
- erminois
- escutcheon
- eucharistial
- ex
- excitable
- exing
- eyeball-to-eyeball
- falcon
- fasces
- faultfinding
- feisty
- fess
- fess point
- field
- figurehead
- file
- flanch
- fleur-de-lis
- flummox
- foil
- footstone
- ford
- fork cross
- forswear
- fractious
- freight
- fret
- fretful
- frustrate
- fur
- furious
- fusil
- gainsay
- gall
- gall and wormwood
- gallows
- gallows-tree
- gammadion
- garland
- gas chamber
- get ahead of
- gibbet
- give benediction
- go across
- go against
- go by
- go by ship
- go counter to
- go on shipboard
- go to sea
- grating
- grave
- gravestone
- grievance
- griffe
- griffin
- grouchy
- grumpy
- guillotine
- gules
- gyron
- half blood
- half-bred
- half-breed
- half-caste
- halter
- hammer and sickle
- hamper
- hand
- handicap
- handstaff
- hard knocks
- hard life
- hard lot
- hardcase
- hardship
- hatchment
- headstone
- helmet
- hemp
- hempen collar
- heraldic device
- heraldry
- high yellow
- hinder
- hinny
- hoarstone
- holy cross
- holy water
- holy-water sprinkler
- honor point
- hostile
- hot seat
- huffish
- huffy
- hybrid
- hybridize
- icon
- immiscible
- impalement
- impaling
- impediment
- impedimenta
- imposition
- impugn
- in confrontation
- in hostile array
- in opposition
- inaccordant
- incensed
- incensory
- incompatible
- inconvenience
- indignant
- inescutcheon
- infliction
- inharmonious
- inimical
- initials
- inscription
- insignia
- interbred
- interbreed
- interchanged
- intercross
- interfere with
- interrupting
- intersect
- intersected
- intersecting
- inverted cross
- invoke benefits upon
- irascible
- irate
- ireful
- irritable
- irritated
- irritation
- jangling
- jarring
- join
- join issue upon
- join the opposition
- label
- ladino
- lapel pin
- lay hands on
- let down
- lethal chamber
- lie across
- lie athwart
- liger
- lion
- lituus
- livery
- livid
- load
- lock horns
- long cross
- lozenge
- lumber
- mace
- mad
- maiden
- make a passage
- mantle
- mantling
- mark
- mark of signature
- marker
- markings
- marshaling
- martlet
- mascle
- matzo
- mausoleum
- mean
- medal
- meet
- meet head-on
- megalith
- memento
- memorial
- memorial arch
- memorial column
- memorial statue
- memorial stone
- menhir
- menorah
- mestee
- mestiza
- mestizo
- metal
- metis
- metisse
- mezuzah
- mikvah
- militate against
- miscegenate
- misfortune
- mixblood
- mixed-blood
- mongrel
- mongrelize
- monogram
- monolith
- monstrance
- monument
- moody
- mortarboard
- motorboat
- motto
- mound
- mulatto
- mule
- mullet
- mustee
- navigate
- necrology
- negate
- negative
- nombril point
- noncooperative
- nonplus
- noose
- not abide
- not accept
- not admit
- nullify
- obelisk
- obituary
- oblique
- obliquely
- obstinate
- obstruct
- octofoil
- octoroon
- old school tie
- onus
- opponent
- oppose
- opposed
- opposing
- opposite
- opposition
- oppositional
- oppositive
- oppression
- oppugn
- oppugnant
- or
- ordeal
- ordinary
- orle
- ornery
- osculatory
- ostensorium
- out of accord
- out of whack
- over
- overstride
- overthwart
- pack
- pack of troubles
- pale
- paly
- papal cross
- paschal candle
- pass
- pass by
- pass over
- pastoral staff
- paterissa
- pax
- pean
- peck of troubles
- pectoral cross
- peevish
- penalty
- perplex
- perverse
- pettish
- petulant
- pheon
- phylacteries
- pillar
- pin
- piqued
- pissed
- pissed-off
- plaque
- play at cross-purposes
- plight
- plumcot
- ply
- potent cross
- prayer shawl
- prayer wheel
- predicament
- pressure
- prize
- protest
- purpure
- pyramid
- pyx
- quadroon
- quarter
- quartering
- quarterstaff
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- quintroon
- ratty
- rebut
- recalcitrant
- recant
- refractory
- refuse to admit
- refute
- regalia
- reject
- relics
- reliquary
- remembrance
- renounce
- repudiate
- repugnant
- resist
- retract
- reverse
- revoke
- ribbon
- rigor
- riled up
- ring
- rival
- rood
- rope
- rosary
- rose
- rostral column
- row
- rub out
- ruin
- run
- run against
- run counter to
- sable
- sabotage
- sacred relics
- sacring bell
- sail
- sail round
- sail the sea
- saltire
- sambo
- scaffold
- school ring
- scotch
- scull
- scutcheon
- sea of troubles
- seafare
- seal
- secant
- sell
- sell out
- shaft
- shamrock
- shield
- shillelagh
- shirty
- shofar
- shoot ahead of
- short-tempered
- shrine
- sideways
- sidewise
- sigil
- sigillography
- sign manual
- signature
- signet
- skull and crossbones
- snappish
- sore
- sorrow
- span
- sphragistics
- spike
- spiteful
- spleeny
- splenetic
- split
- spoil
- spread eagle
- staff
- stake
- stave
- steam
- steamboat
- stela
- step over
- stick
- stone
- stonewall
- straddle
- stress
- stress of life
- strike out
- stump
- stupa
- subordinary
- subscription
- sukkah
- surly
- swagger stick
- swanking stick
- swastika
- swim upstream
- tabernacle
- tablet
- take a voyage
- take back
- take issue with
- tallith
- tangelo
- tantalize
- tartan
- tau
- tease
- tenne
- testimonial
- testy
- tetchy
- the chair
- thistle
- thorn
- thurible
- thwart
- thwarting
- thwartly
- thwartways
- ticked off
- tie
- tigon
- tincture
- tomb
- tombstone
- tope
- torse
- touchy
- transversal
- transverse
- transversely
- traverse
- tree
- trefled cross
- tressure
- trial
- tribulation
- trophy
- trouble
- troubles
- ugly
- uncongenial
- uncooperative
- unfavorable
- unfriendly
- unharmonious
- unicorn
- uniform
- unpropitious
- up in arms
- upset
- urceole
- vair
- vale of tears
- variant
- verge
- veronica
- vert
- vexed
- vicissitude
- vigil light
- visa
- vise
- visitation
- voided cross
- vote against
- votive candle
- voyage
- walking stick
- wand
- waspish
- waters of bitterness
- weight
- white elephant
- wipe out
- with crossed bayonets
- withstand
- woe
- work against
- worked up
- wrathful
- wrathy
- wreath
- wroth
- wrought-up
- x-shaped
- yacht
- yale
- zebrass
- zebrule
equivalents (2)
Other words for 'cross'
hypernyms (11)
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same context (39)
Words that are found in similar contexts
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Cross-references
- as cross as two sticks
- axial cross
- cancel
- celtic cross
- cervical cross
- cross bill
- cross breeding
- cross dollar
- cross interrogatory
- cross keys
- cross lots
- cross marriages
- cross nervure
- cross of the holy ghost
- cross pile
- cross sea
- cross vein
- crossing
- crossway
- egyptian cross
- hybrid
- ill-tempered
- irish cross
- oppose
- opposing
- reciprocal
- stations of the cross
- to cross a check
- to cross books
- to cross one's hand
- to cross one's mind
- to cross one's path
- to cross swords
- to cross the cudgels
- to give the double cross to
- to shake the cross
- trial
- trouble
sonofgroucho commented on the word cross
"We all have our cross to bear."
January 28, 2008
jennarenn commented on the word cross
Some of us, however, has a bear to cross.
January 29, 2008
sionnach commented on the word cross
Would that be Gladly, the cross-eyed bear?
January 29, 2008
rudabeckia commented on the word cross
It's best as an adjective.
March 21, 2008
gangerh commented on the word cross
Like wipe but further away from the camera.
June 8, 2008
mollusque commented on the word cross
. . . he gave it as his opinion that the dog was a cross between a wolf, a Shetland pony, and hyena. It was about that time that Fluff had to be chained.
--Ellis Parker Butler, 1908, That Pup, p. 11
April 16, 2009