(n.) A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals.
(n.) The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom.
(n.) Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.
(n.) A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also, that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.
(n.) An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross; a badge or ornamental device of the general shape of a cross; hence, such an ornament, even when varying considerably from that form; thus, the Cross of the British Order of St. George and St. Michael consists of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it.
(n.) A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London.
(n.) A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above.
(n.) The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write.
(n.) Church lands.
(n.) A line drawn across or through another line.
(n.) A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.
(n.) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
(n.) A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle.
(a.) Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.
(a.) Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse.
(a.) Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.
(a.) Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other.
(prep.) Athwart; across.
(v. t.) To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms.
(v. t.) To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t.
(v. t.) To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.
(v. t.) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
(v. t.) To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with.
(v. t.) To interfere and cut off; to debar.
(v. t.) To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.
(v. t.) To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name.
(v. t.) To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.
(v. i.) To lie or be athwart.
(v. i.) To move or pass from one side to the other, or from place to place; to make a transit; as, to cross from New York to Liverpool.
(v. i.) To be inconsistent.
(v. i.) To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, when cross-linked to anti-CD4 or anti-CD8 antibodies a markedly enhanced proliferation of the corresponding subpopulation is observed.
(2) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(3) The quaternary structure of ribonucleotide reductase of Escherichia coli was investigated, with the use of purified B1 and B2 proteins and bifunctional cross-linking agents.
(4) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(5) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(6) 10D1 mAb induced a substantial proliferation of peripheral blood T cells when cross-linked with goat anti-mouse Ig antibody.
(7) Mapping of the cross-link position between U2 and U6 RNAs is consistent with base-pairing between the 5' domain of U2 and the 3' end of U6 RNA.
(8) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
(9) Plasma for beta-endorphin assay was preincubated with sepharose-bound anti-beta-lipotropin to remove beta-lipotropin that cross-reacted with the beta-endorphin RIA.
(10) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
(11) Further purification of ZAB by filtration through Sephadex G-100 gave a preparation (ZAB2) which contained the common antigen as shown by the cross-reactivity of anti-ZAB2 rat serum with seven stains of N. gonorrhoeae.
(12) On the other hand, as a cross-reference experiment, we developed a paper work test to do in the same way as on the VDT.
(13) No reversions to wild-type levels were observed in 555 heterozygous offspring of crosses between homozygous Campines and normals.
(14) No cross reactions were found between bluetongue and epizootic haemorrhagic disease of deer viruses.
(15) Seven patients were treated with combination chemotherapy, consisting of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) or MOPP (chloromethine, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone), in some cases followed by non-cross-resistant second line chemotherapy, if no complete response was attained.
(16) [125I]AaIT was shown to cross the midgut of Sarcophaga through a morphologically distinct segment of the midgut previously shown to be permeable to a cytotoxic, positively charged polypeptide of similar molecular weight.
(17) Blood was cross-matched preoperatively in 47.7% of patients and 90% of this blood was either not administered or given as a delayed nonurgent procedure.
(18) Conjugational recombination in Escherichia coli was investigated by monitoring synthesis of the lacZ+ product, beta-galactosidase, in crosses between lacZ mutants.
(19) Crossed immunoelectrophoresis and sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation of the patient's plasma showed his prothrombin to be qualitatively indistinguishable from normal prothrombin by these techniques.
(20) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
Crossword
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He would do the Telegraph crossword and, to be fair, would make intelligent conversation but he was a bit racist.
(2) Fittingly, I won this in a crossword competition in 2003.
(3) The solution would appear (sometimes the novel felt like a vast crossword puzzle) through a combination of experiment, meditation and lateral thought: I had to step firmly away from the French and face a contrary direction – another track entirely.
(4) For my 80th birthday last year, my family commissioned a killer-grade personal crossword – my life in a crossword.
(5) I am told that actors and authors and scientists know that they have it made when their names are required as solutions in a Times crossword puzzle.
(6) "And then it's like doing a really difficult crossword.
(7) Blank e blank e blank e blank t. I do crosswords all the time, that's how I learned English.
(8) There's one clue left on the Times crossword and he can't get it.
(9) That a celebrity might command a quarter of a page photo is not particularly unusual – but this was page 46 and I'd already whizzed over the business pages and the TV listings and done the crossword.
(10) Learned, erudite, eloquent, witty and self-effacing about his sharp-minded crossword-setting skill – he was all of those and more.
(11) The Sunday crossword puzzle had the following cue for 4 down: "Places for day-care" (spelled, with the purist's uncertainty, with a hyphen).
(12) Illustration by David Gibson The Guardian has lost a terrific crossword setter but, with the passing of John Graham, Somersham has lost a gentleman who was truly a gentle man ( Araucaria, Obituaries , 27 November).
(13) He was very clever and also enormously competent; he could make things, fix things, solve problems, name trees and plants and insects and birds, grow vegetables, sing in tune, do cryptic crosswords, read maps, sail boats, tie knots, paint and draw, play chess.
(14) This crossword puzzle serves as a motivational tool for staff and is indicative of the broad knowledge base that transplant nurses must possess.
(15) Once, I took my parents to Cornwall for a break and was doing the Guardian crossword with my dad.
(16) At the Statesman, Wheen didn't just proof the crossword.
(17) Nicholas Edward Gough Swindon, Wiltshire • I will always remember the frisson of excitement, on turning to the crossword, to find the name of Araucaria as the compiler, and especially so if it were a themed or alphabetical challenge.
(18) She traces the wordplay back to her father, Adrian Bell, a farmer turned local newspaper columnist, and the first compiler of the Times cryptic crossword.
(19) To sports fans Qatar's name has become more than a crossword curiosity, most famous as host of the 2022 World Cup, to Londoners as the money behind the Shard skyscraper, and to cash-strapped governments as the home of a sovereign wealth fund with a voracious appetite for diverse global investments.
(20) Her listed interests include learning to play the saxophone, supporting Manchester United, and doing cryptic crosswords.