cross

noun

1. 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.”

2. Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
3. 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.”

4. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of Cross (“the Crucifix, the cross on which Christ was crucified”).

   “True Cross”

   “From the dim landscape roll the clouds away— / The Christians have regained their heritage; / Before the Cross has waned the Crescent's ray, / And many a monastery decks the stage, / And lofty church, and low-brow'd hermitage.”

5. A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross; sign of the cross.

   “She made the cross after swearing.”

6. Any representation of the crucifix, as in religious architecture, burial markers, jewelry, etc.

   “She was wearing a cross on her necklace.”

7. (figuratively)A difficult situation that must be endured.

   “It's a cross I must bear.”

   “Heaven prepares good men with crosses.”

   “It's not fair to deny me / Of the cross I bear that you gave to me / You, you, you oughta know”

8. The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other

   “A quick cross of the road.”

9. An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
10. One element of a hybrid species or type.

    “The native Amboynese who reside in the city are a strange half-civilized, half-savage lazy people, who seem to be a mixture of at least three races - Portuguese, Malay, and Papuan or Ceramese, with an occasional cross of Chinese or Dutch.”

11. (broadly)A hybrid of any kind.

    “Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler”

12. A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
13. A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.

    “And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.”

14. A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
15. A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
16. (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.

    “I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse.”

17. (Ireland, obsolete)Church lands.

    “the church-lands lying within the same, which were called the Cross”

18. A line across or through another line.
19. An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
20. A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
21. Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
22. The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
23. (archaic)A betrayal; dishonest practices, especially deliberately losing a sporting contest.
24. (slang)Crossfire.

adj

1. 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”

2. (archaic)Opposite, opposed to.

   “His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.”

3. (archaic)Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.

   “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 designs”

   “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.”

4. (British)(of someone) Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed; (of words) tinged with anger.

   “They exchanged a few cross words.”

   “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.”

   “1650/1651, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living He had received a cross answer from his mistress.”

5. 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”

6. Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.

   “As my father remarked to me when I stole on deck to view the state of affairs, the sea was a "cross one," and very difficult to steer against.”

7. (archaic)Dishonest.

prep

1. (archaic)Across.

   “She walked cross the mountains.”

   “A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village.”

2. The cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.

   “The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.”

verb

1. To make or form a cross.

   “She frowned and crossed her arms.”

2. To make or form a cross.

   “to cross the letter t”

3. To make or form a cross.

   “Cross the box which applies to you.”

4. To make or form a cross.

   “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’.”

5. (reflexive)To make or form a cross.

   “Again Beatrice crossed herself and sighed heavily as she bent over the dead insect.”

6. (transitive)To make or form a cross.

   “"Well, no! that's what I cannot make out either," said the mother quite innocently, "for I've had castor in the cradle, - I have crossed him, and I put a silver brooch in his shirt, and I stuck a knife in the beam over the door, so I don't know how they could have managed to change him."”

7. (UK, obsolete, slang, transitive)To make or form a cross.

   “2022, Andrew Lang, Oxford The reign of Mary was scarcely more favourable to letters. No one knew what to be at in religion. In Magdalen no one could be found to say Mass, the fellows were turned out, the undergraduates were whipped — boyish martyrs — and crossed at the buttery.”

8. (transitive)To move relatively.

   “Why did the chicken cross the road?”

   “You need to cross the street at the lights.”

   “Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.”

   “Ukraine, however, will complain long and hard about a contentious second-half incident when Marko Devic's shot clearly crossed the line before it was scrambled away by John Terry, only for the officials to remain unmoved.”

   “Whatever the merits or otherwise of Scottish independence or a united UK, plenty of people cross the border every year.”

9. (intransitive)To move relatively.

   “Ships crossing from starboard have right-of-way.”

10. (transitive)To move relatively.

    “November 4, 1866, James David Forbes, letter to E. C. Batten Esq. Your kind letter crossed mine.”

11. To move relatively.
12. To move relatively.

    “He crossed the ball into the penalty area.”

13. To move relatively.

    “England cut loose at the end of the half, Ashton, Mark Cueto and Mike Tindall all crossing before the break.”

14. (transitive)To oppose.

    “"You'll rue the day you tried to cross me, Tom Hero!" bellowed the villain.”

    “At length I begged him, with all the earnestness I felt, to tell me what had occurred to cross him so unusually, and to let me sympathize with him, if I could not hope to advise him.”

    “But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it / Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of / You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin' / Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk”

15. (obsolete, transitive)To oppose.

    “to cross me from the golden time I look for”

16. To oppose.
17. To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.

    “They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.”

    “Question: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino? Answer : El-if-I-no.”

18. (transitive)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.

    “The English practice of crossing checks so that payment may be made to the bank account or to order is prevalent.”

name

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14. A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a stone cross on a road.

    “Max Cross cut a fine figure as the Colonel, Percy Penny was a somewhat unducal Duke, while Edgar McHale gave a particularly good rendering of the Major.”