What's the difference between cross and inter?

Cross


Definition:

  • (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.

Inter


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deposit and cover in the earth; to bury; to inhume; as, to inter a dead body.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
  • (2) Type C-like particles were found inter- and intracellularly in gland and vessel lumina and scattered in the connective tissue.
  • (3) We did three repeated PD measures of mean aortic flow velocity in ten term infants (using four trained operators) to determine inter- and intraoperator reproducibility.
  • (4) The inter-molecular similarity measure used is the number of atoms in the 3-D common substructure (CS) between the two molecules which are being compared.
  • (5) The difference in APD between the first drive train and drive trains after at least 3 minutes of pacing when APD had stabilized was not significant for an inter-train pause exceeding 8 seconds.
  • (6) This suggests that (AGG)12 can form intra- and inter-molecular complexes by non-Watson-Crick, guanine:guanine base-pairing.
  • (7) Sets of specimens having quantitative linear inter-relationships for 25 analytes were prepared and used in a small survey of results with multi-channel analyzers.
  • (8) The large degree of inter-dose fluctuation between doses indicates that it is preferable to use pre-dose plasma sodium valproate levels to guide the clinical management of epileptic patients.
  • (9) These data suggested that an inter-thymic exchange of cells did not occur during larval life.
  • (10) The inter-connecting linkage system develops postnatally, and the 'tip-linkages' are already found in one-week-old mice, suggesting that the critical organization of the micromechanics of the stereocilia matures rapidly during the postnatal period.
  • (11) However, great inter-tumorous differences in proliferation behaviour existed particularly in papillary G2 and G3 urothelium carcinomas.
  • (12) The first two peptides have been proposed to occupy inter-transmembrane regions while the third represented the C-terminal segment, proposed by various models to be either extracellular or intracellular.
  • (13) The specificity of the test is high, the sensitivity is 4.0 microM, the inter-analysis variation is low as in 96% of the double determinations, agreement was present between the first and second analyses.
  • (14) These optic disk anomalies occurred bilaterally with some inter- and intra-individual variable expressivity.
  • (15) In order to assess this inter-relationship isolated rat glomeruli were incubated with and without shaking.
  • (16) Recovery of CHO (Polycose) added to fresh stool was greater than 95%, inter-assay coefficient of variation (CV) 6.2%.
  • (17) However, besides these obligatory alterations a high inter- and intraindividual variability of structural aspects is found in MS lesions.
  • (18) To determine reproducibility, inter- and intra-observer agreement were calculated and expressed as Cohen's kappa and as weighted kappa.
  • (19) There were no significant inter-group differences that could be attributed to rheumatoid arthritis.
  • (20) Yesterday's results: Torino 1-0 Cagliari, Siena 0-0 Livorno, Sampdoria 2-1 Atalanta, Reggina 1-1 Fiorentina, Palermo 0-0 Milan, Lazio 3-1 Catania, Inter 1-1 Udinese, Empoli 3-1 Messina, Chievo 2-2 Roma, Ascoli 0-0 Parma.