cross
Other forms: crossed; crossing; crosser; crossest
When you cross something, you travel over it — like when you cross the street, after looking both ways and using the crosswalk, of course.
A commercial pilot might cross the continent several times a week, and a boy might cross several back yards on his way to school. Another kind of cross is a written mark, an upended X on a piece of paper. There's also the adjective cross, which describes someone who is extremely cranky. The Latin root word crux means "stake or cross," but its figurative meaning, "trouble or misery," is related to to traditional use of wooden crosses to hang criminals.
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a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
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crisscross, mark
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marking
a pattern of marks
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marking
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a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
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construction, structure
a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
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construction, structure
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travel across or pass over
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synonyms:
cover, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse
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tramp
cross on foot
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stride
cover or traverse by taking long steps
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walk
traverse or cover by walking
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crisscross
cross in a pattern, often random
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ford
cross a river where it's shallow
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bridge
cross over on a bridge
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jaywalk
cross the road at a red light
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drive, take
proceed along in a vehicle
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course
move swiftly through or over
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hop
traverse as if by a short airplane trip
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go across, go through, pass
go across or through
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trace a line through or across“cross your `t'”
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write
mark or trace on a surface
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write
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meet at a point
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intersect
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decussate
cross or intersect so as to form a cross
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come across, encounter, meet, run across, run into, see
come together
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decussate
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meet and pass
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fold so as to resemble a cross
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to cover or extend over an area or time period
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extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis“cross members should be all steel”
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thwartwise, transversal, transverse
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crosswise
lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction
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crosswise
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any affliction that causes great suffering“that is his cross to bear”
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crown of thorns
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affliction
a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity
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affliction
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breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties“cross a horse and a donkey”
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crossbreed, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed
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(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
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crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding
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dihybrid cross
hybridization using two traits with two alleles each
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monohybrid cross
hybridization using a single trait with two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas)
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reciprocal, reciprocal cross
hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype
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test-cross, testcross
a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring
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conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union
the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
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(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“a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey”
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crossbreed, hybrid
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dihybrid
a hybrid produced by parents that differ only at two gene loci that have two alleles each
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monohybrid
a hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas)
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dihybrid
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hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
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disappoint, let down
fail to meet the hopes or expectations of
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dash
destroy or break
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short-circuit
hamper the progress of; impede
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ruin
destroy or cause to fail
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betray, fail
disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
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come short, fall short
fail to meet (expectations or standards)
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disenchant, disillusion
free from enchantment
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undo
cause the ruin or downfall of
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break
cause the failure or ruin of
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shipwreck
ruin utterly
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annoyed and irritable
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bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered
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ill-natured
having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
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ill-natured
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Vocabulary lists containing cross
Third-grader Maggie Schultz decides she does not want to learn how to read and write cursive.
This first book of the series introduces the orphaned siblings Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden, who try to make a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar.
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