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Cross   /krɔs/   Listen
Cross

noun
1.
A wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece.
2.
A marking that consists of lines that cross each other.  Synonyms: crisscross, mark.
3.
A representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified; used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry.
4.
Any affliction that causes great suffering.  Synonym: crown of thorns.  "He bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns"
5.
(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species.  Synonyms: crossbreed, hybrid.
6.
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids.  Synonyms: crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding.
verb
(past & past part. crossed; pres. part. crossing)
1.
Travel across or pass over.  Synonyms: cover, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse.
2.
Meet at a point.  Synonym: intersect.
3.
Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.  Synonyms: baffle, bilk, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart.  "Foil your opponent"
4.
Fold so as to resemble a cross.
5.
To cover or extend over an area or time period.  Synonyms: span, sweep, traverse.  "The parking lot spans 3 acres" , "The novel spans three centuries"
6.
Meet and pass.
7.
Trace a line through or across.
8.
Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties.  Synonyms: crossbreed, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed.  "Mendel tried crossbreeding" , "These species do not interbreed"
adjective
1.
Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis.  Synonyms: thwartwise, transversal, transverse.  "From the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully" , "Transversal vibrations" , "Transverse colon"
2.
Annoyed and irritable.  Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered.



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"Cross" Quotes from Famous Books



... the next few days need not be gone into. They contained descriptions of life with her family in several towns when she was a child, of her graduation from the high school in Des Moines, and of her experience as a nurse in Cincinnati and Chicago. Our cross-examination disclosed that she knew a good many facts about obstetrics, in which she said she had had training, and about the cities where she said she had lived. For instance, she gave a description of the Cliff ...
— Pathology of Lying, Etc. • William and Mary Healy
... and pass a good turn round both legs at the cross. Then take one end up and the other down, around and over the cross, until half of the lashing is thus expended; then ride both ends back again on their own parts, and knot them in the middle. Frap the first and riding turns together on each ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... pursuing these inquiries was that of cross-examination. In the streets, in the market, in the gymnasia, at meetings grave and gay, in season or out of season, he raised his points of definition. The city was in a ferment around him. Young men and boys followed and hung on his lips wherever he went. By the charm ...
— The Greek View of Life • Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
... ride on, it required exertion to keep in motion, and it hurt his feelings. Especially the last. He was a horseman, a jockey, he'd ridden the best blood in the equine world; and here he was condemned through no fault of his own to straddle a cross between a llama and a woolly toy sheep. It hurt his pride. He felt bitterly about it. Indeed, he fairly harped on ...
— The Killer • Stewart Edward White
... cheerful, as he began again "You ought not to grudge yourself a goblet either. Wine moderately enjoyed makes the heart glad; and you don't look like a contented man. Everything in life has not gone according to your wishes, but each has his own cross to bear; and as for you, your name is Adam, and your trials ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers


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