Meaning of 'cross' (Webster Dictionary)
- Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique;
intersecting.
- Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting;
adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse.
- Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness,
fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial;
disappointment; opposition; misfortune.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many
varieties. See the Illustration, above.
- The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by
those unable to write.
- Church lands.
- A line drawn across or through another line.
- A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding;
or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.
- An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the
main course.
- A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually
form's right angle.
- Athwart; across.
- To lie or be athwart.
- 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.
- To be inconsistent.
- To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.
- To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to
cross the arms.
- To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross
the letter t.
- To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move
over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.
- To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the
same time.
- To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to
clash or interfere with.
- To interfere and cut off; to debar.
- To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the
reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.
- 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.
- To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or
races; to mix the breed of.
Meaning of 'cross' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- (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
Example in sentence:- a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey
Meaning (2):
- any affliction that causes great suffering
Example in sentence:- he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns;
- that is his cross to bear
Meaning (3):
- breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
Example in sentence:- cross a horse and a donkey;
- Mendel tried crossbreeding;
- these species do not interbreed
Meaning (4):
- trace a line through or across
Meaning (5):
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
Example in sentence:- foil your opponent;
- What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge
Meaning (6):
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
Example in sentence:- Rivers traverse the valley floor;
- The novel spans three centuries;
- The parking lot spans 3 acres
Meaning (7):
- fold so as to resemble a cross
Meaning (8):
- travel across or pass over
Example in sentence:- The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day
Meaning (9):
- meet and pass
Meaning (10):
- extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
Example in sentence:- cross members should be all steel;
- from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully;
- transversal vibrations;
- transverse colon
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