📖 Check word in Dictionary: CROSS

Noun

• Synonyms: (n) cross (a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece)
• Synonyms: (n) crisscross, cross, mark (a marking that consists of lines that cross each other)
• Synonyms: (n) Cross (a representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified; used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry)
• Synonyms: (n) cross, crown of thorns (any affliction that causes great suffering) “that is his cross to bear”; “he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns”
• Synonyms: (n) hybrid, crossbreed, cross ((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”
• Synonyms: (n) hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing ((genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids)

Verb

• Synonyms: (v) traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across (travel across or pass over) “The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day”
• Synonyms: (v) intersect, cross (meet at a point)
• Synonyms: (v) thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk (hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of) “What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth’s amazing September surge”; “foil your opponent”
• Synonyms: (v) cross (fold so as to resemble a cross) “she crossed her legs”
• Synonyms: (v) cross, traverse, span, sweep (to cover or extend over an area or time period) “Rivers traverse the valley floor”; “The parking lot spans 3 acres”; “The novel spans three centuries”
• Synonyms: (v) cross (meet and pass) “the trains crossed”
• Synonyms: (v) cross (trace a line through or across) “cross your `t'”
• Synonyms: (v) crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed (breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties) “cross a horse and a donkey”; “Mendel tried crossbreeding”; “these species do not interbreed”

Adjective

• Synonyms: (adj) cross, transverse, transversal, thwartwise (extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis) “cross members should be all steel”; “from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully”; “transversal vibrations”; “transverse colon”
• Synonyms: (adj) crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered (annoyed and irritable)

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2024.

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