| VERB | motion | cross, traverse, track, cover, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across | travel across or pass over |
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| motion | cross, intersect | meet / meet at a point | |
| social | cross, thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, frustrate, baffle, bilk | hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | |
| motion | cross | fold so as to resemble a cross | |
| stative | cross, traverse, span, sweep | to cover or extend over an area or time period | |
| motion | cross | meet / meet and pass | |
| creation | cross | trace a line through or across | |
| contact | cross, crossbreed, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed | breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | |
| NOUN | artifact | cross | a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece |
| attribute | cross, crisscross, mark | a marking that consists of lines that cross each other | |
| artifact | Cross | a representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified | |
| state | cross, crown of thorns | any affliction that causes great suffering | |
| animal | cross, hybrid, crossbreed | (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar / dissimilar parents or stock | |
| act | cross, hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, interbreeding, hybridizing | (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | |
| ADJECTIVE | all | cross, transverse, transversal, thwartwise | extending or lying across |
| all | cross, crabbed, crabby, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered | annoyed and irritable |
| Sounds | krao's | |
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| Rhymes | across ... toss: 21 rhymes with aos... | |
| Meaning | Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis. | |
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| Example | "cross members should be all steel" | |
| Synonyms | transverse, transversal, thwartwise | |
| Broader | crosswise | lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction |
| Spanish | oblicuo, transversal, transverso | |
| Catalan | oblic, transgressió, transversal | |
| Meaning | Annoyed and irritable. | |
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| Synonyms | crabbed, crabby, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered | |
| Broader | ill-natured | Having an irritable and unpleasant disposition |
| Spanish | áspero, cascarrabias, gruñón, hosco, irritable, malhumorada, malhumorado, refunfuñón | |
| Catalan | butzinaire, esquerp, malhumorat, malhumorós, rondinador, rondinaire | |
| Nouns | crossness | a disposition to be ill-tempered |
| Adverbs | crossly | in an ill-natured manner |
| Meaning | A wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece. | |
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| Broader | structure, construction | A thing constructed |
| Meaning | A marking that consists of lines that cross each other. | |
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| Synonyms | crisscross, mark | |
| Broader | marking | A pattern of marks |
| Spanish | cruz, entramado, marca | |
| Catalan | creu, entramat, marca | |
| Verbs | cross | trace a line through or across |
| Meaning | Any affliction that causes great suffering. | |
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| Example | "that is his cross to bear" | |
| Synonym | crown of thorns | |
| Broader | affliction | A state of great suffering and distress due to adversity |
| Verbs | cross | hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of |
| Meaning | (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar / dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species. | |
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| Example | "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey" | |
| Synonyms | hybrid, crossbreed | |
| Category | genetics, genetic science | The branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms |
| Narrower | dihybrid | A hybrid produced by parents that differ only at two gene loci that have two alleles each |
| monohybrid | A hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments / experiments with garden peas) | |
| Broader | organism, being | A living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently |
| Spanish | cruce, híbrida, híbrido | |
| Catalan | encreuament, híbrid | |
| Verbs | cross | breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties |
| Meaning | Travel across or pass over. | |
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| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Model | These men cross the river | |
| Synonyms | traverse, track, cover, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across | |
| Narrower | bridge | cross over on a bridge |
| course | Move swiftly through or over | |
| crisscross | cross in a pattern, often random | |
| drive, take | proceed along in a vehicle | |
| ford | cross a river where it's shallow | |
| hop | Traverse as if by a short airplane trip | |
| jaywalk | cross the road at a red light | |
| stride | Cover or traverse by taking long steps | |
| tramp | cross on foot | |
| walk | traverse or cover by walking | |
| Broader | pass | go across or through |
| Spanish | atravesar, cruzar | |
| Catalan | creuar, travessar | |
| Nouns | crossing | a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean) |
| crossing | traveling across | |
| crossing | a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | |
| Meaning | meet / meet at a point. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Model | Our properties cross at this point; His fields cross mine at this point | |
| Synonym | intersect | |
| Narrower | cross | meet / meet and pass |
| Broader | meet, run into, encounter, run across, come across, see | Come together |
| Spanish | cruzarse, cruzar, intersecarse, intersecar, intersectar | |
| Catalan | encreuar-se, encreuar, intersecar-se, intersecar | |
| Nouns | crossing | a junction where one street or road crosses another |
| crossing | a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect | |
| Meaning | hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Model | Sam cannot cross Sue | |
| Synonyms | thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, frustrate, baffle, bilk | |
| Narrower | dash | Destroy or break |
| disappoint, let down | fail to meet the hopes or expectations of | |
| ruin | Destroy or cause to fail | |
| short-circuit | hamper the progress of | |
| Broader | prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid | Keep from happening / happening or arising |
| See also | double cross | betray by double-dealing |
| Spanish | contrariar, defraudar, desbaratar, estafar, estropear, frustrar | |
| Catalan | defraudar, desbaratar, estafar, frustrar, trastornar | |
| Nouns | cross | any affliction that causes great suffering |
| Meaning | fold so as to resemble a cross. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "she crossed her legs" | |
| Broader | fold, fold up, turn up | bend or lay so that one part covers the other |
| Opposite | uncross | change from a crossed to an uncrossed position |
| Spanish | cruzar | |
| Catalan | encreuar | |
| Meaning | To cover or extend over an area or time period. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | traverse, span, sweep | |
| Broader | cover, continue, extend | span an interval / interval of distance, space or time |
| Spanish | abarcar | |
| Catalan | abraçar, comprendre, encreuar-se | |
| Meaning | meet / meet and pass. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Example | "the trains crossed" | |
| Narrower | decussate | cross / cross or intersect so as to form a cross |
| Broader | intersect, cross | meet / meet at a point |
| Spanish | cruzarse | |
| Meaning | trace a line through or across. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "cross your 't'" | |
| Broader | write | mark or trace on a surface |
| Nouns | cross | a marking that consists of lines that cross each other |
| Meaning | Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Examples |
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| Synonyms | crossbreed, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed | |
| Narrower | backcross | mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents |
| Broader | breed | Cause to procreate (animals) |
| Spanish | cruzar, hibridizar | |
| Nouns | cross | (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar / dissimilar parents or stock |
| crossing, cross | (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | |
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