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| 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" |
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| 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" |
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| 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" |
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| 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" |
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| 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'" |
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| 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" |
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| 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" |
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| 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" |
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| 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" |
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| Related terms: | life_form crossbred dihybrid monohybrid crossbreed | |
| 17. | [ verb ] meet and pass | |
| Examples: | "the trains crossed" |
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| 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 |
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