To attest to the truthfulness of the accompanying statement. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cross, one's, heart.

A type of aquaculture, used mainly in culturing Pacific salmon, wherein juvenile fish are hatched and reared, released to mature in the open ocean, and caught when they return as adults to spawn.

(UK) NATO rank OR-8 in all British armed services. / (UK, Army) A warrant officer in the British Army ranking above staff sergeant and below warrant officer class 1; company sergeant major

(law) A legal standard, applied in many jurisdictions for deciding the outcome of civil disputes, which requires that a dispute be decided in favor of the party whose claims are more likely to be true.

(idiomatic) Irregularly, occurring in irregular time intervals or patterns.

(idiomatic) Regularly; occurring in regular time intervals or patterns.

(Christianity) A gesture of the hand moving over the front of one's body in the shape of a cross made as part of ritual or to invoke divine protection.

(informal) The characteristic of regularly using vulgar language, especially strong profanities; a person having this characteristic.

plural of lab on a chip

Used as an intensifier with superlative forms of adjectives. / Used as an intensifier with nouns to denote being ultimate.