cross

Proscribed spelling of kros (“cross country”)

cross (absolutive indefinite)
cross-a (absolutive singular)
cross-ak (ergative singular)
cross-ari (dative singular)
cross-aren (genitive singular)
cross-arekin (comitative singular)
cross-arengatik (causative singular)
cross-arentzat (benefactive singular)
cross-ez (indefinite instrumental)
cross-az (instrumental singular)
cross-ean (inessive singular)
cross-ik (indefinite partitive)
cross-tzat (indefinite prolative)


cross

Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one.

en:geometrical figure involving intersecting lines

A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.

(heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.

Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross.

A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).

From the dim landscape roll the clouds away— / The Christians have regained their heritage; / Before the Cross has waned the Crescent's ray, / And many a monastery decks the stage, / And lofty church, and low-brow'd hermitage.

1811, Walter Scott, The Vision of Don Roderick; a Poem, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for John Ballantyne and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, stanza XXVII, page 31:

(Christianity) Alternative form of Cross The Crucifix, the cross on which Christ was crucified.

She made the cross after swearing.

(Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross; sign of the Cross.

She was wearing a cross on her necklace.

en:any representation of the Crucifix of Jesus, e.g, pendant, adornment

(Christianity) Any representation of the Crucifix, as in religious architecture, burial markers, jewelery, etc.

It's a cross I must bear.

Heaven prepares good men with crosses.

(figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.

A quick cross of the road.

The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other

(biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.

Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler

1856, Lord Dufferin, Letters from High Latitudes:

(boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.

And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.

2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:

(soccer) A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.

A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).

A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)

I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse.

c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

(obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.

the church-lands lying within the same, which were called the Cross

1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued:

(surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.

A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.

(Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.

(cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.

hybrid

production of cross-breeding or -fertilization

→ Japanese: クロス (kurosu)

tsįh iłná'ááhí

wooden post with a perpendicular beam, used for crucifixion

صَلِيب

definite: the cross on which Christ was crucified

հիբրիդ

biology: animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization

From Middle English cross, cros, from Old English cros (“rood, cross”), perhaps from Old Irish cros (compare Welsh croes, Irish crois), perhaps from Latin crux (cruci). In this sense displaced native Middle English rood, from Old English rōd; see rood.
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
*Old Norse kross (“cross”)
*Icelandic kross (“cross”)
*Faroese krossur (“cross”)
*Danish kors (“cross”)
*Swedish kors (“cross”)
*German Kreuz (“cross”)
*Dutch kruis (“cross”)


cross

At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.

the cross refraction of the second prism

1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:

Transverse; lying across the main direction.

His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.

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

c. 1650, Jeremy Taylor, Of Contentedness:

the cross and unlucky issue of my designs

1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:

The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvellously cross to the common experience of mankind.

1694, Robert South, Christianity Mysterious, and the Wisdom of God in Making it So (sermon preached at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 1694)

We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross, / One must be happy by the other's loss.

1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

(now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.

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.

(chiefly British, Ottawa Valley) Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.

cross interrogatories

cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other

Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.

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.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 15:

(nautical) 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.

en-adj

cross (comparative crosser, superlative crossest)

crosser (comparative)
crossest (superlative)

напречен

transverse; lying across the main direction


cross

She walked cross the mountains.

A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village.

1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:

The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.

The cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.


cross

She frowned and crossed her arms.

To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.

to cross the letter t

To lay or draw something across, such as a line.

Cross the box which applies to you.

To make or form a cross.
To mark with an X.

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’.

1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:

To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ

Again Beatrice crossed herself and sighed heavily as she bent over the dead insect.

1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini's Daughter”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

(reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.

"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."

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 298:

(transitive) To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).

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.

(UK, Oxford University, slang, obsolete, transitive) To mark a cross against the name of (a student) in the buttery or kitchen, so that they cannot get food there.

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.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

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.

2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:

Whatever the merits or otherwise of Scottish independence or a united UK, plenty of people cross the border every year.

2021 December 29, Philip Haigh, “Rail's role in unifying Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, in RAIL, number 947, page 24:

(transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other.

Ships crossing from starboard have right-of-way.

(intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.

November 4, 1866, James David Forbes, letter to E. C. Batten Esq.
Your kind letter crossed mine.

(transitive) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.

(sports) Relative movement by a player or of players.

(cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.

He crossed the ball into the penalty area.

(soccer) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.

England cut loose at the end of the half, Ashton, Mark Cueto and Mike Tindall all crossing before the break.

2011 February 12, Mark Orlovac, “England 59-13 Italy”, in BBC:

"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.

1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

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

1995, “Gangsta's Paradise”, in Artis Ivey, Jr., Karry Sanders, Doug Rasheed (lyrics), Gangsta's Paradise (CD), performed by Coolio and L.V., Tommy Boy, →OCLC:

(transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.

to cross me from the golden time I look for

c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

(transitive, obsolete) To interfere and cut off ; to debar.

To oppose.
To interfere and cut off ; to debar.

(law) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.

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.

1978, Kim Applegate Peggs, Carpenter, volume 96, page 16:

(biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.

The English practice of crossing checks so that payment may be made to the bank account or to order is prevalent.

1924, Commerce Reports, volume 1, number 13, page 849:

(transitive) 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.

en-verb

cross (third-person singular simple present crosses, present participle crossing, simple past and past participle crossed)

crosses (present singular third-person)
crossing (participle present)
crossed (participle past)
crossed (past)
cross (infinitive)

トモツ゜イェ

go from one side of something to the other

преси́чам

travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that another

centrar

soccer, football: pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side

кръстосвам

biology: to cross-fertilize or crossbreed


cross

A cross or gibbet (wooden frame for execution).

A representation of a cross; the cross as a Christian symbol:

The intersection of drawn lines, especially as a signature.

(figurative) The cross in Christian metaphor:

The cross in Christian metaphor:
Crucifixion; nailing to a cross.

The cross in Christian metaphor:
Suffering, penury.

(biblical) Christianity; the Christian religion.

The cross in Christian metaphor:
Christianity; the Christian religion.

English: cross
→ Japanese: クロス (kurosu)

Scots: cross, cros

From Old English cros, borrowed from Old Norse kross, borrowed from Old Irish cros, borrowed from Latin crux. Doublet of crouche and croys.


cross

a ball hit more or less diagonally across the playing field

åka cross i skogen

Träffade shunne på en nybaxad cross. Han frågade om jag ska ha skjuts och bjussade på ett bloss.

2000, The Latin Kings (lyrics and music), “De e knas [There's trouble]”, in Mitt kvarter [My neighborhood]:

Met a dude on a freshly-stolen motorbike. He asked if I need a ride and gave me a smoke.

a motorbike (small and light motorcycle (as used in or similar to those used in motocross))

cross (indefinite nominative singular)
cross (genitive indefinite singular)
crossen (definite nominative singular)
crossens (definite genitive singular)
crossar (indefinite nominative plural)
crossars (genitive indefinite plural)
crossarna (definite nominative plural)
crossarnas (definite genitive plural)