Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word cross. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in cross.
Definitions and meaning of cross
cross
Alternative forms
Cross(sometimes for the historical cross of Christ)
Etymology
From Middle Englishcross, cros, from Old Englishcros(“rood, cross”), perhaps from Old Irishcros (compare Welshcroes, Irishcrois), perhaps from Latincrux (cruci). Cognate with Old Norsekross(“cross”), Icelandickross(“cross”), Faroesekrossur(“cross”), Danishkors(“cross”), Swedishkors(“cross”), GermanKreuz(“cross”), Dutchkruis(“cross”). In this sense displaced native Middle Englishrood, from Old Englishrōd; see rood.
The sense of "two intersecting lines drawn or cut on a surface; two lines intersecting at right angles" without regard to religious signification develops from the late 14th century.
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation, Canada) IPA(key): /kɹɒs/
(General American, General Australian) enPR: krôs, IPA(key): /kɹɔs/
She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job.
Please don't get cross at me. (or) Please don't get cross with me.
1650/1651, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
He had received a cross answer from his mistress.
Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
cross interrogatories
cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other
(nautical) Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
The cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
Derived terms
Related terms
dot
× (the multiplication sign)
Translations
Verb
cross (third-person singular simple presentcrosses, present participlecrossing, simple past and past participlecrossed)
To make or form a cross.
To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
To mark with an X.
To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.W
(reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
(transitive) To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
(UK, Oxford University, slang, obsolete, transitive) To mark a cross against the name of (a student) in the buttery or kitchen, so that they cannot get food there.
2022, Andrew Lang, Oxford
The reign of Mary was scarcely more favourable to letters. No one knew what to be at in religion. In Magdalen no one could be found to say Mass, the fellows were turned out, the undergraduates were whipped — boyish martyrs — and crossed at the buttery.
To move relatively.
(transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
(intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
(transitive) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
November 4, 1866, James David Forbes, letter to E. C. Batten Esq.
Your kind letter crossed mine.
(sports) Relative movement by a player or of players.
(cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
(soccer) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
(rugby) To score a try.
(social) To oppose.
(transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
(transitive, obsolete) To interfere and cut off ; to debar.
(law) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
(biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
(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.
Conjugation
Synonyms
(to cross-fertilize or crossbreed):cross-fertilize, crossbreed
Hyponyms
crisscross
Derived terms
Translations
Basque
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /kros̺/[kros̺]
Rhymes: -os̺
Noun
crossinan
Proscribed spelling of kros(“cross country”)
Declension
Further reading
"cross" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
French
Etymology
From English.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /kʁɔs/
Noun
crossm (uncountable)
(sports) cross-country
Further reading
“cross”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Englishcross.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈkrɔs/
Rhymes: -ɔs
Hyphenation: cròss
Noun
crossm (invariable)
motocross
cross (boxing punch, tennis shot)
slice (golf shot)
Derived terms
crossista
Middle English
Alternative forms
cros, croz, crosse, crosce
Etymology
From Old Englishcros, borrowed from Old Norsekross, borrowed from Old Irishcros, borrowed from Latincrux. Doublet of crouche and croys.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /krɔs/
Noun
cross (pluralcrosses)
A cross or gibbet (wooden frame for execution).
The Holy Cross; Christ's cross.
A representation of a cross; the cross as a Christian symbol:
(heraldry) A cross in heraldry.
A crucifix (cross-shaped structure).
A crosier (clerical staff)
The intersection of drawn lines, especially as a signature.
(figurative)The cross in Christian metaphor:
Crucifixion; nailing to a cross.
Suffering, penury.
(biblical) Christianity; the Christian religion.
The sign of the cross.
Descendants
English: cross
→ Japanese: クロス(kurosu)
Scots: cross, cros
References
“cros, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Swedish
Noun
crossc
a ball hit more or less diagonally across the playing field
(soccer) a cross
(tennis) a cross-court
motocross (or similar sports)
Synonym:motocross
a motorbike (small and light motorcycle (as used in or similar to those used in motocross))