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US
/ˈkɹɔs/
]
[ UK /kɹˈɒs/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈɒs/ ]
VERB
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hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
foil your opponent
What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge -
trace a line through or across
cross your `t' - meet at a point
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to cover or extend over an area or time period
The novel spans three centuries
Rivers traverse the valley floor
The parking lot spans 3 acres -
fold so as to resemble a cross
she crossed her legs -
breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
Mendel tried crossbreeding
these species do not interbreed
cross a horse and a donkey -
travel across or pass over
The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day -
meet and pass
the trains crossed
NOUN
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
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any affliction that causes great suffering
he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns
that is his cross to bear - a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
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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
ADJECTIVE
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extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
transversal vibrations
transverse colon
from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully
cross members should be all steel - annoyed and irritable
How To Use cross In A Sentence
- We berate those who cross the line and leave the immature and underdeveloped open to the physical abuse of contact and collision sports.
- She is also part of a large group of oceanographers and taphonomists of the SSETI project (Shelf / Slope Taphonomic Initiative) examining carbonate preservation and destruction across the shelf and slope regions in Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas using submersibles.
- Bounties were paid right across a banking sector whose incompetence threw thousands of innocents into jeopardy. Times, Sunday Times
- Brigalow vegetation is found to the east, and gidgee (A. cambagei) woodlands or shrublands are scattered across the region on alluvium or other more fertile clay soils. Eastern Australia mulga shrublands
- Moreover some parts of gain will devolute to Italian Red Cross seriously employed in the disastrous earthquake land that hit the middle lands of Italia few weeks ago. MacMegasite
- Only a few minutes had gone when the Welshman flung in an inviting right-foot cross to the back post.
- On the moor, we crossed becks bridged by railway sleepers and bulging with pondweed and we met a couple of cyclists.
- Halpern kept his arms crossed and eyes forward, while Ren was grinning and tucking a few stray hairs up under a mesh caul.
- Mr Boardman said: ‘I was out walking with my wife and dog when we happened across a little cove and we found the creature in the flotsam that had been washed up.’
- The Subaru then veered across the road and hit a telegraph pole, eventually becoming lodged between the pole and a tree.
