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Meaning 1
Shaped like a cross or X; crossing lines.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- e.g. crossbody, crossbuck, cross-stitch
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stauro-, xipho-
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
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Meaning 2
Perpendicular in angle; transverse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- e.g. crossbedding, crossband, crossmember
- . See visuals for difference between crossband and crossbuck.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ortho-
Antonyms: none provided
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Meaning 3
Moving from one side to the other; across.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- e.g. crossfield, cross-city. When used for a rectangular space, this movement is typically diagonal, such as in crossbelt and crosscourt.
- .
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dia-
Antonyms: none provided
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Meaning 4
Moving from one side to the other; across.
Moving from one track or state to another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, morpheme
Examples
- e.g. crossfeed as the process of blending the left and right channels of a stereo recording, crossfader, cross-link
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dia-, inter-
Antonyms: none provided
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Meaning 5
Moving from one side to the other; across.
On the opposite side of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- e.g. crosstown, cross-cousin, cross-ratio
- ,
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dia-, contra-, para-
Antonyms: none provided
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Meaning 6
Moving or acting against, opposing, contrary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- e.g. crossflow, cross-beat, cross-vote
- ,
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ana-, counter-
Antonyms: none provided
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Meaning 7
Located in between. Often, but not necessarily, forming an H-shaped structure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- e.g. cross-passage, cross-tunnel, crossfire
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: inter-
Antonyms: none provided
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Meaning 8
More than one, often in indicating applicability to several domains that are usually separate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- e.g. crosslingual, cross-browser, crossfunctional, cross-cultural
- ,
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: multi-, pluri-
Antonyms: none provided
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Meaning 9
More than one, often in indicating applicability to several domains that are usually separate.
Involving two or more at the same time; coincident.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- e.g. crossbreak, crosspost, crosscurrent
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: multi-, pluri-, synchro-
Antonyms: none provided
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Meaning 10
More than one, often in indicating applicability to several domains that are usually separate.
Comparing two sources of information, often to verify their contents.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- e.g. crossdate, crossvalidated, crosscovariance
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: multi-, pluri-, co-
Antonyms: none provided
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Meaning 11
More than one, often in indicating applicability to several domains that are usually separate.
To combine two entities to create a hybrid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- e.g. crossbreed, cross-pollinate, crosslinear
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: multi-, pluri-, zygo-
Antonyms: none provided
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Meaning 12
Mutual exchange or influence, where both entities are affected in the same way. Mutuality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- e.g. crosstalk, crossrepression, crosscalibration, cross-progress
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ambi-
Antonyms: none provided
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Meaning 13
One entity affecting a similar entity, such as to transfer of one property from one entity to the other.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- e.g. crossregulation, crossfeed, crossprotection
- To crossfeed as to supply one fuel tank of an aircraft with fuel from another. To crossregulate is when one metabolic pathway is regulated by the enzymes in another pathway. These are one-way influences, whereas the previous sense of mutuality has symmetric two-way influences; e.g. crossrepression is mutual repression of interacting systems.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: trans-
Antonyms: none provided
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Meaning 14
Alternate, different.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- e.g. cross-tune, cross-birth, cross-live
- ,
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: allo-, alter-
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English cros-, crosse- (“relating to a cross, forming a cross, in the shape of a cross or x”), from the noun (see cross) and also from across.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Irish: tras- — expressing mutuality or exchange; switch
- Scottish Gaelic: tair- — expressing mutuality or exchange; switch
- Azerbaijani: köndələn — indicating a direction (across)
- Danish: tvær- — indicating a direction (across)
- Faroese: tvør- — indicating a direction (across)
- Icelandic: þver- — indicating a direction (across)
- Irish: tras- — indicating a direction (across)
- Norwegian Bokmål: tverr- — indicating a direction (across)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tverr- — indicating a direction (across)
- Scottish Gaelic: tair- — indicating a direction (across)