(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.
Signature
Definition:
(v. t.) A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.
(v. t.) Especially, the name of any person, written with his own hand, employed to signify that the writing which precedes accords with his wishes or intentions; a sign manual; an autograph.
(v. t.) An outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated.
(v. t.) A resemblance between the external characters of a disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing between the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; -- supposed to indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease.
(v. t.) The designation of the key (when not C major, or its relative, A minor) by means of one or more sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff, immediately after the clef, affecting all notes of the same letter throughout the piece or movement. Each minor key has the same signature as its relative major.
(v. t.) A letter or figure placed at the bottom of the first page of each sheet of a book or pamphlet, as a direction to the binder in arranging and folding the sheets.
(v. t.) The printed sheet so marked, or the form from which it is printed; as, to reprint one or more signatures.
(v. t.) That part of a prescription which contains the directions to the patient. It is usually prefaced by S or Sig. (an abbreviation for the Latin signa, imperative of signare to sign or mark).
(v. t.) To mark with, or as with, a signature or signatures.
Example Sentences:
(1) Voters would have to collect the signatures of 10% of constituents to force a byelection.
(2) The end result of the post is a digital signature, signed by Nakamoto’s private key.
(3) Based on documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the New York Times and ProPublica reported on Thursday that the Justice Department in 2012 permitted the NSA to use widespread surveillance authorities passed by Congress to stop terrorism and foreign espionage in order to find digital signatures associated with high-level cyber intrusions.
(4) A heavy smoker – “I once quit for four months … but why should I torture myself at my age?” – and outspoken supporter of gay marriage, the divorced and recently remarried father of two collected more than 4,000 signatures from Austrian public figures and celebrities during his presidential campaign.
(5) The applicant I had countersigned for had visited a GP surgery where she began talking to another patient who was there for a GP's signature on an application, for a fee of £20.
(6) Signing up Round-robin emails encouraging web users to sign e-petitions have attracted hundreds of thousands of signatures.
(7) This contract signature is not only great news for our armed forces, but demonstrates how the strong relationship between UK defence and our allies helps to ensure best value for the taxpayer.
(8) "It is rare to have such a prominent signature in a work of this date and it is one of only two of his series of paintings depicting windmills of Montmartre still in private hands."
(9) With 66,000 signatures on a petition after four days, immigration minister Peter Dutton cancelled Allen’s visa.
(10) But two key Liberal positions, on the Keystone XL and on emissions reductions targets, put Trudeau out of step with Obama, who has made climate change the signature issue of his second term in the White House.
(11) Le champ solaire d’une valeur de 23,7 millions de dollars était opérationnel à peine un an après la signature du contrat, n’en déplaise aux sceptiques qui remettaient en cause la capacité des Africains à mener à bien un projet rapidement.
(12) By the time she did so, it had attracted 213,000 signatures.
(13) The tech behemoth reported strong sales of its signature phone in its third-quarter financial report – fully 47.5m iPhones, up more than a third year-over-year, for a net revenue of $31.4bn.
(14) It was brought before parliament by a citizens’ initiative – a petition that has received at least 100,000 signatures – submitted by the hardline conservative advocacy group Ordo Iuris and the Stop Abortion coalition.
(15) The researchers identified three signatures of brain activity that corresponded to the different children's responses to the point-light displays.
(16) With a letter of no confidence already in circulation but only a small number of signatures so far, several MPs said on Monday that May was safe until summer – with colleagues desperate to get to the parliamentary recess and have a break.
(17) • The guitar, along with flamenco's signature cry of olé, are believed to be derived from early versions of the instruments brought by the Muslims to Spain.
(18) He was stunned and told me they were his signature.
(19) A government-ordered inquiry has questioned the benefits of Tony Abbott’s signature paid parental leave scheme and called for some of the funding to be diverted to early childhood education and care, saying it would have a greater impact on workforce participation.
(20) At such a juncture a writer can inject their own imagination to isolate them from the real world or maybe they can exaggerate the situation – making sure it is bold, vivid and has the signature of our real world.