What's the difference between crisscross and grillage?
Crisscross
Definition:
(n.) A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.
(n.) A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.
(v. t.) To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks.
(adv.) In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways.
(adv.) With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross.
Example Sentences:
(1) Antigenic specificity was demonstrated between tricalcium phosphate ceramic and fetal bovine serum in crisscross.
(2) In a country crisscrossed from sea to shining sea by some of the world’s longest and most famous roads, what could be more simple?
(3) Monáe sits with her back to me on a high stool, jacket removed, braces crisscrossed over an immaculate white shirt.
(4) In patients with crisscross heart the ventricles appeared to have been rotated about their long axes without concomitant motion of the AV valve anuli, producing actual crossing of the ventricular inflow tracts.
(5) This is due to the complex anatomy of SCG microcultures, which have many crisscrossing neurites that often pass over cell bodies.
(6) Two infants with complex congenital cardiac disease had malposition of the branch pulmonary arteries (crisscross pulmonary arteries) detected by angiography and confirmed during surgery and in one case, at autopsy.
(7) Twenty years after Nelson Mandela cajoled, threatened and shouted down even his own comrades and led us down the path of freedom, his successor Jacob Zuma has been crisscrossing the country campaigning to be re-elected .
(8) There are publicly run systems across Europe that are cheaper, more efficient, and of a better quality than ours Much of my life is spent in train carriages, crisscrossing the country.
(9) Both types of helper molecule were shown to be antigen-specific in crisscross experiments.
(10) Neuronal perikaria exhibited numerous surface protrusions and were covered by a rich meshwork of crisscrossing, varicosed fibers.
(11) Three fault lines crisscross Nigeria's troubled land: ethnic, religious and socioeconomic.
(12) Therefore, the tendency of 3T3 cells to form monolayers and of Py3T3 cells to form crisscrossed multilayers cannot be explained on the basis of the presence versus the absence of contact inhibition.
(13) Speaking to reporters on the Clinton plane, campaign chair John Podesta said: “[Christie’s] two top aides today were just convicted of corruption for political intimidation.” Noting Christie was a top surrogate for Trump, Podesta added: “Rather than just crisscrossing the country … and talking about cleaning up the swamp, [Trump] might start by draining his own swamp and asking Mr Christie to resign.” Christie was scheduled to campaign on Trump’s behalf on Saturday, in the battleground states of New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.
(14) During the election battle, Hollande had spent little time holed up in his office here, preferring instead to crisscross France on a perpetual campaign trail, which had been going for over a year when he first ran in the Socialist primary race.
(15) Colonies were considered to contain neoplastically transformed cells when the cells were densely stacked and made a crisscross pattern.
(16) We ride endless trams, crisscrossing Prague, and though I’m not always sure where we are headed, Robert seems to know how to get there.
(17) At the end of a long and vigorous battle for the party leadership in 2012, Renzi, despite crisscrossing the country in a camper van, lost out to Pier Luigi Bersani, the candidate of the PD's old guard.
(18) On the basis of these observations, it is concluded that the differences in culture patterns are the result of differences in the shapes of the individual cells, such that underlapping, and hence crisscrossing, is favored in Py3T3 cell interactions and discouraged in 3T3 cells.
(19) In vitro morphologic transformation occurs in a dose-dependent manner and is characterized by random crisscrossing and piling of cells; it correlates with tumorigenicity because individually transformed cell colonies can be isolated, cell lines can be developed, and the formation of tumors can be demonstrated after the injection of the transformed cells into either Syrian hamsters or athymic nude mice.
(20) All five cases shared a distinctive and consistent combination of anomalies: 1) dextrocardia; 2) visceroatrial situs solitus, concordant ventricular D-loop and double outlet right ventricle with the aorta positioned to the left of and anterior to the pulmonary artery; 3) hypoplasia of right ventricular inflow (sinus) with tricuspid valve stenosis or hypoplasia; 4) large right ventricular infundibulum (outflow); 5) malalignment conoventricular septal defect; 6) straddling mitral valve with chordal attachments to the left ventricle and right ventricular infundibulum; 7) severe subpulmonary stenosis with well developed pulmonary arteries; and 8) superoinferior ventricles with crisscross atrioventricular (AV) relations.
Grillage
Definition:
(n.) A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.