cross
1. [ verb ] travel across or pass over
Synonyms: cover cut_across traverse get_over pass_over cut_through get_across track
Examples:

"The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"

Related terms: pass walk crisscross hop bridge ford stride tramp drive course jaywalk path crossing traverser traversal
2. [ verb ] meet at a point
Synonyms: intersect
Related terms: meet crossing
3. [ adjective ] extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
Synonyms: transverse thwartwise transversal crossing
Examples:

"cross members should be all steel" "from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully" "transversal vibrations" "transverse colon"

Related terms: crosswise
4. [ noun ] a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
Related terms: structure
5. [ noun ] marking consisting of crossing lines
Synonyms: mark crisscross
Related terms: marking score crisscross crisscross crisscross
6. [ verb ] hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
Synonyms: frustrate thwart foil bilk scotch baffle spoil queer
Examples:

"What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge" "foil your opponent"

Related terms: prevent discourage disappoint short-circuit dash ruin double_cross frustrating frustration
7. [ noun ] (Christianity) a cross as an emblem of Christianity; used in heraldry
Related terms: emblem crucifix Lorraine_cross Greek_cross Celtic_cross St._Andrew's_cross Latin_cross Maltese_cross papal_cross patriarchal_cross Jerusalem_cross tau_cross Calvary_cross
8. [ adjective ] perversely irritable
Synonyms: fussy crabby grouchy grumpy bad-tempered ill-tempered crabbed
Related terms: ill-natured
9. [ adjective ] perversely irritable
Synonyms: fussy crabbed crabby grouchy grumpy ill-tempered bad-tempered
Related terms: ill-natured
10. [ verb ] fold so as to resemble a cross
Examples:

"she crossed her legs"

Related terms: uncross fold
11. [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 349
12. [ verb ] trace a line through or across
Examples:

"cross your `t'"

Related terms: write crisscross
13. [ verb ] to cover or extend over an area or time period
Synonyms: span sweep traverse
Examples:

"Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres" "The novel spans three centuries"

Related terms: cover sweep
14. [ noun ] any affliction that causes great suffering
Synonyms: crown_of_thorns
Examples:

"that is his cross to bear" "he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns"

Related terms: affliction thwart
15. [ verb ] breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
Synonyms: hybridize interbreed hybridise crossbreed
Examples:

"cross a horse and a donkey" "Mendel tried crossbreeding" "these species do not interbreed"

Related terms: breed miscegenation hybrid hybridization hybrid
16. [ noun ] (biology,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
Examples:

"a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey"

Related terms: life_form crossbred dihybrid monohybrid crossbreed
17. [ verb ] meet and pass
Examples:

"the trains crossed"

Related terms: intersect decussate
18. [ noun ] (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
Synonyms: hybridisation crossbreeding crossing interbreeding hybridizing hybridization
Related terms: coupling reciprocal dihybrid_cross test-cross monohybrid_cross genetics crossbreed
Similar spelling:   crosse
  Criss
  Crass
  Crose
  cress
  crossway
  Crooks
  Crissy
  crus
  Croskey
  Cressey
  Cris
  crash
  Crays
  Crego
  Crews
  Crago
  Crase
  Crius
  crook
  cruse
  crush
  Crisci
  Crooke
  Crouse
  creese
  Creasy
  crease
  Cruise
  Crisco
  Crusoe
  Creasey