cross
/kɹɔs/ adjective C2- Transverse; lying across the main direction. · At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.
- 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
- 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.
Comparative crosser · Superlative crossest
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“This little girl,” said the Scarecrow to the soldier, “wishes to cross the desert.
Besides, her castle stands on the edge of the desert, so she may know a way to cross it.”
We shall be glad to serve you in any way in our power, but we cannot cross the desert.
Elizabeth thought this was going pretty far; and she listened with increasing astonishment as the housekeeper added, “I have never had a cross word from him in my life, and I have known him ever since he was four years old.”
Other matches
- cross A geometrical figure consisting of two straight... A2
- cross To place across or athwart A2
- cross The cross product of the previous vector and th... C2
- cross off To strike out
- cross out To strike out
- cross over To pass from one side or area, physical or abst...
- cross up To double-cross or betray
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