crossing |
1. n. An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross | |
2. n. A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed. | |
3. n. The act by which terrain or a road etc. is crossed. | |
4. n. A voyage across a body of water | |
5. n. (architecture) The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it | |
6. n. Movement into a crossed position. | |
7. n. (graph theory) A pair of intersecting edges. | |
8. n. A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque | |
9. adj. (rare) Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction. | |
10. v. present participle of cross | |
cross |
1. n. 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. | |
2. n. (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross. | |
3. n. 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. | |
4. n. (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified. | |
5. n. (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross. | |
She made the cross after swearing. | |
6. n. (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion. | |
She was wearing a cross on her necklace. | |
7. n. (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured. | |
It's a cross I must bear. | |
8. n. The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other | |
A quick cross of the road. | |
9. n. (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization. | |
10. n. (by extension) A hybrid of any kind. | |
11. n. (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch. | |
12. n. (football) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch. | |
13. n. A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross). | |
14. n. A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross) | |
15. n. (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. | |
16. n. (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands. | |
17. n. A line drawn across or through another line. | |
18. n. (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course. | |
19. n. A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle. | |
20. n. (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross. | |
21. n. (cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card. | |
22. adj. Transverse; lying across the main direction. | |
At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows. | |
23. adj. (archaic) Opposite, opposed to. | |
His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness. | |
24. adj. (now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for. | |
25. adj. Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed. | |
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. | |
26. adj. 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 | |
27. prep. (archaic) across | |
She walked cross the mountains. | |
28. prep. cross product of the previous vector and the following vector. | |
The Lorentz force is q times v cross B. | |
29. v. To make or form a cross. | |
30. v. To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect. | |
She frowned and crossed her arms. | |
31. v. To lay or draw something across, such as a line. | |
to cross the letter t | |
32. v. To mark with an X. | |
Cross the box which applies to you. | |
33. v. To write lines at right angles.W | |
34. v. (reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself. | |
35. v. To move relatively. | |
36. v. To go from one side of (something) to the other. | |
Why did the chicken cross the road? | |
You need to cross the street at the lights. | |
37. v. (intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another. | |
Ships crossing from starboard have right-of-way. | |
38. v. To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. | |
39. v. (sports) Relative movement by a player or of players. | |
40. v. # (cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs. | |
41. v. # (football) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side. | |
# He crossed the ball into the penalty area. | |
42. v. # (rugby) To score a try. | |
43. v. (social) To oppose. | |
44. v. To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of. | |
"You'll rue the day you tried to cross me, Tom Hero!" bellowed the villain. | |
45. v. (transitive, obsolete) To interfere and cut off; to debar. | |
46. v. (legal) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness. | |
47. v. (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed. | |
They managed to cross a sheep with a goat. | |
48. v. To stamp or mark a cheque in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account. | |
States |
1. n. plural of State | |
2. n. plural of state | |
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of state | |
state |
1. n. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time. | |
a state of being; a state of emergency | |
2. n. (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system. | |
3. n. (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle. | |
In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus. | |
4. n. (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation. | |
The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far. | |
5. n. (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation. | |
A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint. | |
6. n. (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma. | |
7. n. (obsolete) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating | |
8. n. High social standing or circumstance. | |
9. n. Pomp, ceremony, or dignity. | |
The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol. | |
10. n. Rank; condition; quality. | |
11. n. Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance. | |
12. n. A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself. | |
13. n. (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince. | |
14. n. (obsolete) Estate, possession. | |
15. n. A polity. | |
16. n. Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government. | |
17. n. A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States or Germany; (by extension, informal, US) any provi | |
18. n. (obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy. | |
19. n. (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government. | |
20. n. (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process. | |
21. v. To declare to be a fact. | |
He stated that he was willing to help. | |
22. v. To make known. | |
State your intentions. | |
23. adj. (obsolete) stately | |
usually |
1. adv. Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally. | |
Except for one or two days a year, he usually walks to work. | |
2. adv. Under normal conditions. | |
Provincial |
1. adj. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provençal. | |
2. adj. Of or pertaining to a province. | |
a provincial government | |
a provincial dialect | |
3. adj. Constituting a province. | |
4. adj. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province. | |
5. adj. Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude | |
6. adj. narrow; illiberal. | |
7. adj. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical. | |
a provincial synod | |
8. adj. Limited in outlook; narrow. | |
9. n. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. | |
10. n. (Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order. | |
11. n. A country bumpkin. | |
State |
1. n. A current governing polity. | |
2. n. (often with definite article) The current governing polity under which the speaker lives. | |
3. n. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time. | |
a state of being; a state of emergency | |
4. n. (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system. | |
5. n. (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle. | |
In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus. | |
6. n. (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation. | |
The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far. | |
7. n. (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation. | |
A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint. | |
8. n. (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma. | |
9. n. (obsolete) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating | |
10. n. High social standing or circumstance. | |
11. n. Pomp, ceremony, or dignity. | |
The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol. | |
12. n. Rank; condition; quality. | |
13. n. Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance. | |
14. n. A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself. | |
15. n. (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince. | |
16. n. (obsolete) Estate, possession. | |
17. n. A polity. | |
18. n. Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government. | |
19. n. A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States or Germany; (by extension, informal, US) any provi | |
20. n. (obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy. | |
21. n. (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government. | |
22. n. (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process. | |
23. v. To declare to be a fact. | |
He stated that he was willing to help. | |
24. v. To make known. | |
State your intentions. | |
25. adj. (obsolete) stately | |
but |
1. prep. (obsolete, outside, Scotland) Outside of. | |
Away but the hoose and tell me whae's there. | |
2. prep. Apart from, except (for), excluding. | |
Everyone but Father left early. | |
I like everything but that. | |
Nobody answered the door when I knocked, so I had no choice but to leave. | |
3. adv. Merely, only, just. | |
4. adv. (Australian, conjunctive) Though, however. | |
I'll have to go home early but. | |
5. adv. Used as an intensifier. | |
Nobody, but nobody, crosses me and gets away with it. | |
6. conj. (following a negative clause or sentence) On the contrary, but rather (introducing a word or clause that contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence without the negation). | |
I am not rich but (I am) poor; not John but Peter went there. | |
7. conj. However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (implies that the following clause is contrary to prior belief or contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence). | |
She is very old but still attractive. | |
You told me I could do that, but she said that I could not. | |
8. conj. Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "ex | |
I cannot but feel offended. | |
9. conj. (archaic) Without its also being the case that; unless that (introducing a necessary concomitant). | |
It never rains but it pours. | |
10. conj. (obsolete) Except with; unless with; without. | |
11. conj. (obsolete) Only; solely; merely. | |
12. conj. (obsolete) Until. | |
13. n. An instance or example of using the word "but". | |
It has to be done – no ifs or buts. | |
14. n. (Scotland) The outer room of a small two-room cottage. | |
15. n. A limit; a boundary. | |
16. n. The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt. | |
17. v. (archaic) Use the word "but". | |
But me no buts. | |
also |
1. adv. (conjunctive, focus) In addition; besides; as well; further; too. | |
They had porridge for breakfast, and also toast. | |
2. adv. (obsolete) To the same degree or extent; so, as. | |
E |
1. n. (street slang) The illicit drug ecstasy (MDMA), particularly in pill form. | |
2. n. (especially, in LGBT contexts) The hormone estrogen/estradiol. (Contrast T, testosterone.) | |
3. n. The grade below D in some grading systems. In most such systems, it is a failing grade. | |
4. n. (abbreviation of episode) (installment of a series) | |
The pilot episode is S01E01. | |
5. Number. en-number, upper=E, lower=e | |
6. n. (mathematics) the base of the natural logarithm, 2.718281828459045… | |