cross
Part of speech: adj
prep
verb
Morphological type: simple
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transport
Etymology: From Middle English cross, cros, from Old English cros (“rood, cross”), from Old Norse kross, from Old Irish cros, from Latin crux (crucī). In this sense displaced native Middle English rode, from Old English rōd (“cross”); see English rood. Doublet of crouch (“cross”) and crux. Compare Welsh croes, Irish crois.
The sense of "two intersecting lines drawn or cut on a surface; two lines intersecting at right angles" without regard to religious signification develops from the late 14th century.
Cognates
*Icelandic kross (“cross”)
*Faroese krossur (“cross”)
*Norwegian Nynorsk kross, kors (“cross”)
*Danish kors (“cross”)
*Swedish kors (“cross”)
*North Frisian kross, korss (“cross”)
*Saterland Frisian Krjuus, Kjus (“cross”)
*West Frisian krús (“cross”)
*Dutch kruis (“cross”)
*German Low German Krüüz (“cross”)
*German Kreuz (“cross”)
Inflected forms:
form: crosser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: crossest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: crosses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crossing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crossed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crossed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: cross
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: cross
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: crossed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: cross
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: crossest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: crossed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: crossedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: crosses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crosseth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: crossed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: cross
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: crossed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: cross
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: crossed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: cross
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: crossing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crossed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: Transverse; lying across the main direction.
pos: adj
examples: At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.
the cross refraction of the second prism
gloss: Opposite, opposed to.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.
gloss: Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: 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.
gloss: (of someone) Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed; (of words) tinged with anger.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: 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.
gloss: Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
pos: adj
examples: cross interrogatories
cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Dishonest.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Across.
pos: prep
tags: archaic
examples: She walked cross the mountains.
A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village.
gloss: The cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
pos: prep
examples: The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.
gloss: To make or form a cross.
pos: verb
examples: She frowned and crossed her arms.
gloss: To make or form a cross.
pos: verb
examples: to cross the letter t
gloss: To make or form a cross.
pos: verb
examples: Cross the box which applies to you.
gloss: To make or form a cross.
pos: verb
examples: 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’.
gloss: To make or form a cross.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: Again Beatrice crossed herself and sighed heavily as she bent over the dead insect.
gloss: To make or form a cross.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "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."
gloss: To make or form a cross.
pos: verb
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To move relatively.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To move relatively.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Ships crossing from starboard have right-of-way.
gloss: To move relatively.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: November 4, 1866, James David Forbes, letter to E. C. Batten Esq.
Your kind letter crossed mine.
gloss: To move relatively.
pos: verb
gloss: To move relatively.
pos: verb
examples: He crossed the ball into the penalty area.
gloss: To move relatively.
pos: verb
examples: England cut loose at the end of the half, Ashton, Mark Cueto and Mike Tindall all crossing before the break.
gloss: To oppose.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "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
gloss: To oppose.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: to cross me from the golden time I look for
gloss: To oppose.
pos: verb
gloss: To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The English practice of crossing checks so that payment may be made to the bank account or to order is prevalent.
Related words: dot
×
Derived words: cross lots
anticross
backcross
becross
bookcross
countercross
crossable
cross a bridge before one comes to it
cross-country
crossed
crossing
crossing loop
crossing number
cross my heart
cross my heart and hope to die
crossnumber
cross off
cross one's arms
cross oneself
cross one's fingers
cross one's heart
cross one's legs
cross out
cross over
crossover
cross paths
crosspoint
crossrow
cross someone's mind
cross someone's palm
cross someone's palm with silver
cross someone's path
cross someone's T
cross swords
crosstable
cross that bridge when one comes to it
cross the aisle
cross the floor
cross the line
cross the river
cross the Rubicon
cross the streams
cross the Styx
cross the Thames
cross the Tiber
cross the t's and dot the i's
cross the wires
crosstrack
crosstree
crossunder
cross up
crossvine
crosswalk
crosswall
crossway
crosswedge
cross wires
crosswise
crossword
dot the i's and cross the t's
double-cross
get one's wires crossed
incross
intercross
noncrossing
outcross
overcross
recross
uncross
uncrossability
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: krydse
lang: French
word: croiser
lang: Galician
word: cruzar
lang: Galician
word: encrucillar
lang: Hungarian
word: keresztez
lang: Hungarian
word: keresztbe tesz
lang: Hungarian
word: keresztbe rak
lang: Hungarian
word: összefon
lang: Italian
word: incrociare
lang: Spanish
word: cruzar
lang: Belarusian
word: хрысці́цца
roman: xryscícca
lang: Belarusian
word: перахрысці́цца
roman: pjeraxryscícca
lang: Bulgarian
word: кръ́стя се
roman: krǎ́stja se
lang: Danish
word: korse sig
lang: Danish
word: gøre korsets tegn
lang: Finnish
word: tehdä ristinmerkki
lang: French
word: faire le signe de la croix
lang: French
word: se signer
lang: Galician
word: persignar
lang: German
word: sich bekreuzigen
lang: Greek
word: σταυροκοπιέμαι
roman: stavrokopiémai
lang: Hungarian
word: keresztet vet
lang: Japanese
word: 十字を切る
roman: jūji o kiru
lang: Macedonian
word: се крсти
roman: se krsti
lang: Macedonian
word: се прекрстува
roman: se prekrstuva
lang: Macedonian
word: се прекрсти
roman: se prekrsti
lang: Portuguese
word: persignar-se
lang: Portuguese
word: fazer o sinal da cruz
lang: Romanian
word: cruci
lang: Romanian
word: închina
lang: Russian
word: крести́ться
roman: krestítʹsja
lang: Russian
word: перекрести́ться
roman: perekrestítʹsja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: прекри́жити се
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: prekrížiti se
lang: Slovene
word: se prekrižati
lang: Spanish
word: santiguarse
lang: Spanish
word: persignarse
lang: Swedish
word: göra korstecknet
lang: Ukrainian
word: хрести́тися
roman: xrestýtysja
lang: Ukrainian
word: перехрести́тися
roman: perexrestýtysja
lang: Yup'ik
word: puusuq