Definition of "cross" in Englisch

noun

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.
(heraldry) 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.
(Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of Cross (“the Crucifix, the cross on which Christ was crucified”).
- True Cross
(Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross; sign of the cross.
- She made the cross after swearing.
(Christianity) Any representation of the crucifix, as in religious architecture, burial markers, jewelry, etc.
- She was wearing a cross on her necklace.
(figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
- It's a cross I must bear.
The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
- A quick cross of the road.
(biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
(by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
(boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
(soccer) A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
(obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.
(obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
A line across or through another line.
(surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
(Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
(cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.

adjective

Transverse; lying across the main direction.
- At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.
(archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
- His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.
(now rare) 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.
- The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvellously cross to the common experience of mankind.
(chiefly British, Ottawa Valley) (of someone) Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed; (of words) tinged with anger.
- They exchanged a few cross words.
- She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job.
- Please don't get cross at me. (or) Please don't get cross with me.
- 1650/1651, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living He had received a cross answer from his mistress.
Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
- cross interrogatories
- cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other
(nautical) Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
(archaic) Dishonest.