English Dictionary

cross

/kɹɒs/

verb

To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect. / To lay or draw something across, such as a line. / To mark with an X.

He decided to cross the river by swimming.

意味（1）

To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.

She frowned and crossed her arms.

意味（2）

To lay or draw something across, such as a line.

to cross the letter t

意味（3）

To mark with an X.

Cross the box which applies to you.

意味（4）

To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ

An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

意味（5）

(reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.

意味（6）

(transitive) To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).

Well, no! that's what I cannot make out either, said the mother quite innocently, for I've had castor in the cradle, - I have crossed him, and I put a silver brooch in his shirt, and I stuck a knife in the beam over the door, so I don't know how they could have managed to change him.

意味（7）

(transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

意味（8）

(intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.

Ships crossing from starboard have right-of-way.

意味（9）

(transitive) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.

Your kind letter crossed mine.

意味（10）

(sports) Relative movement by a player or of players.

意味（11）

(transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.

You'll rue the day you tried to cross me, Tom Hero! bellowed the villain.

意味（12）

(transitive, obsolete) To interfere and cut off ; to debar.

to cross me from the golden time I look for

意味（13）

(law) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.

意味（14）

(biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.

They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.

意味（15）

(transitive) 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.

The English practice of crossing checks so that payment may be made to the bank account or to order is prevalent.