Word Finder - cross

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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.

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

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

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

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Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross.

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(usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.

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A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.

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She made the cross after swearing.

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A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.

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She was wearing a cross on her necklace.

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

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It's a cross I must bear.

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

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A quick cross of the road.

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An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.

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(by extension) A hybrid of any kind.

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A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.

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A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.

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

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

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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.

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Church lands.

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A line drawn across or through another line.

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

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

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

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The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.

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Crossfire.

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To make or form a cross.

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To move relatively.

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(social) To oppose.

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To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.

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They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.

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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.

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Transverse; lying across the main direction.

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

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Opposite, opposed to.

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His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.

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Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.

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Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.

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Please don't get cross at me. (or) Please don't get cross with me.

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

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cross interrogatories

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Across

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She walked cross the mountains.

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Cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.

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The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.

He let a rare smile cross his face.

No one wanted to cross her.

Why is he cross with me?

She fought the urge to cross to him.

Her husband has welcomed his Serene Highness with the cross at the church, and she intends to welcome him in the house....

He excused himself to cross to her.

The soldiers would cross the river.

Cross is cry and kick.

I saw him give the cross to one of the veterans....

Vaguely she heard Cade close his book and cross the room.

Cross your fingers the group doesn't eat me alive over this.

Jule would never cross one of his brothers.

He heard merry girlish cries behind some trees on the right and saw a group of girls running to cross the path of his caleche.

And cross your fingers!

The light beyond the solid French doors made her flinch, but she forced herself to cross the doorway.

No, I didn.t cross that line!

I don't think anyone will want to cross him for a long time, Jetr said, amused.

The very day that Napoleon issued the order to cross the Niemen, and his vanguard, driving off the Cossacks, crossed the Russian frontier, Alexander spent the evening at the entertainment given by his aides-de- camp at Bennigsen's country house.

With his left hand he drew Bagration toward him, and with his right, on which he wore a ring, he made the sign of the cross over him with a gesture evidently habitual, offering his puffy cheek, but Bagration kissed him on the neck instead.

Napoleon merely laid the cross on Lazarev's breast and, dropping his hand, turned toward Alexander as though sure that the cross would adhere there.

The order was to find a ford and to cross the river.

We asked about buildings; there were none, only corn in the four fields separated by the cross roads.

I can cross the frozen tundra.

She put the groceries in the back seat and sat the broom up cross ways on the floor.

It retains an ancient town hall; there is a good market cross; and in the neighbourhood, along the Fal, are several early earthworks.

Struck by trains at highway cross ings..

There is a Queen Eleanor cross commemorating the countess of Loudoun, by Sir Gilbert Scott.

He became a senator, a count of the empire, a grand officer of the legion of honour, and just before his death received the grand cross of the order of reunion.

Let them therefore not adore a cross of gold or silver or bronze or stone.

The ancient Banbury Cross, celebrated in a familiar nursery rhyme, was destroyed by Puritans in 1610.

The climatic conditions are not so favourable as in Argentina, but these are counterbalanced to some extent by the great river system of the Orinoco, whose large navigable tributaries cross the plains from end to end, and whose smaller streams from the surrounding highlands provide superior opportunities for water storage and irrigation.

The Temple of the Cross is a larger structure of similar design and construction.

Joining a Polish artillery regiment in the French service, he took part in the Russian campaign of 1812, and subsequently so brilliantly distinguished himself in the defence of Danzig (January - November 1813) that he won the cross of the Legion of Honour.

When these became law, he neglected to enforce them, and on the 1 st of September 1549 he was required by the council to maintain at St Paul's Cross that the royal authority was as great as if the king were forty years of age.

The New Mosque (Jamaa-el-Jedid), dating from the 17th century, is in the form of a Greek cross, surmounted by a large white cupola, with four small cupolas at the corners.

Three chapels were built on the spot, and Gregory raised his cross there and elsewhere for the people to worship, just as St Nino was doing about the same time in Georgia.

It consists of four hemispherical cups, mounted one on each end of a pair of horizontal arms, which lie at right angles to each other and form a cross.

The cups are placed symmetrically on the end of the arms, and it is easy to see that the wind always has the hollow of one cup presented to it; the back of the cup on the opposite end of the cross also faces the wind, but the pressure on it is naturally less, and hence a continual rotation is produced; each cup in turn as it comes round providing the necessary force.

The principal component parts of a traveller are the main cross girders forming the revolving bridge, the two end carriages on which the bridge rests, the cranes.

When the cross traverse motion of a traveller crab is suppressed, and the longitudinal travelling motion is increased in importance we come to a type of crane, the use of which is rapidly increasing; it goes by the name of " transporter."

At the centre of the vision appeared a cross, and the seraph was nailed to it.

On the 8th of August, in spite of the protests and threats of most of the powers, the Garibaldians began to cross the Straits, and in a short time 20,000 of them were on the mainland.

Energetically making use of this period of respite, he again issued the charter to the church, ordered his subjects to take a fresh oath of allegiance to him, and sent to the pope for aid; but neither these precautions, nor his expedient of taking the cross, deterred the barons from returning to the attack.

The mouth may be a simple, circular pore at the extremity of the manubrium, or by folding of the edges it may become square or shaped like a Maltese cross, with four corners and four lips.

The cloisters connect the cathedral with the church of Our Lady (Liebfrauenkirche), a beautiful building in the form of a circle intersected by a cross, with a lofty vault, built 1127-1143, and said to be the oldest Gothic church in Germany.

In the market-place is the market cross, said to date from 958, and a beautiful Renaissance fountain, the Petersbrunnen, erected in 1595.

Near the tolbooth stands the market cross, a stone column with a unicorn on the top supporting the burgh arms. At the west end of High Street is a statue of David Macbeth Moir ("Delta," 1798-1851), Musselburgh's most famous son.

This well is now surrounded by an enclosure with an inscription upon its cross.

The foundation of the chapel of the gild of the Holy Cross was laid by Robert de Stratford.

The plan of Shakespeare's Stratford at least is preserved, for the road crossing Clopton's bridge is an ancient highway, and forks in the midst of the town into three great branches, about which the village grew up. The high cross no longer stands at the marketplace where these roads converged.