A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one.
Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross.
Transverse; lying across the main direction.
At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.
Opposite, opposed to.
His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.
Across.
She walked cross the mountains.
The cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.
To make or form a cross.
She frowned and crossed her arms.
The cross on which Jesus died and, in metonymical uses, such as to refer to Christ's suffering in general.
From Middle English cross, cros, from Old English cros (“rood, cross”), from Old Norse kross, from Old Irish cros, from Latin crux (crucī). In this sense displaced native Middle English rode, from Old...
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Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences.
To move relatively.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To oppose.
"You'll rue the day you tried to cross me, Tom Hero!" bellowed the villain.
A number of places with the name "Cross":
A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a stone cross on a road.
Max Cross cut a fine figure as the Colonel, Percy Penny was a somewhat unducal Duke, while Edgar McHale gave a particularly good rendering of the Major.