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cross

Maltese and St. Andrew's patriarchal, Greek, and tau Latin, Calvary, and Celtic (Academy Artworks)

(krôs, krŏs)

1. 1. An upright post with a transverse piece near the top, on which condemned persons were executed in ancient times.
   2. often Cross The upright post with a transverse piece upon which Jesus was crucified.
   3. A crucifix.
   4. Any of various modifications of the cross design, such as a Latin cross or Maltese cross.
   5. A medal, emblem, or insignia in the form of a cross.
2. The Christian religion; Christianity.
3. In Christianity, a sign made by tracing the outline of a cross with the right hand upon the forehead and chest as a devotional act.
4. A trial, affliction, or frustration. See synonyms at burden¹.
5. A mark or pattern formed by the intersection of two lines, especially such a mark (X) used as a signature.
6. A movement from one place to another, as on a stage; a crossing.
7. A pipe fitting with four branches in upright and transverse form, used as a junction for intersecting pipes.
8. Biology.
   1. A plant or animal produced by crossbreeding; a hybrid.
   2. The process of crossbreeding; hybridization.
9. One that combines the qualities of two other things: a novel that is a cross between romance and satire.
10. Sports. A hook thrown over an opponent's punch in boxing.
11. Law. An act or instance of cross-examining; a cross-examination.
12. The Southern Cross.
13. Slang. A contest whose outcome has been dishonestly prearranged.

1. To go or extend across; pass from one side of to the other: crossed the room to greet us; a bridge that crosses the bay.
2. To carry or conduct across something: crossed the horses at the ford.
3. To extend or pass through or over; intersect: Elm Street crosses Oak Street.
4. 1. To delete or eliminate by or as if by drawing a line through: crossed tasks off her list as she did them.
   2. To make or put a line across: Cross your t's.
5. To place crosswise one over the other: cross one's legs.
6. To make the sign of the cross upon or over as a sign of devotion.
7. To encounter in passing: His path crossed mine.
8. To combine the qualities of two things: a movie that crosses horror with humor.
9. Informal. To interfere with; thwart or obstruct: Don't cross me.
10. To betray or deceive; double-cross. Often used with up.
11. Biology. To crossbreed or cross-fertilize (plants or animals).

1. To lie or pass across each other; intersect.
2. 1. To move or extend from one side to another: crossed through Canada en route to Alaska.
   2. To make a crossing: crossed into Germany from Switzerland.
3. To meet in passing; come into conjunction: Their paths crossed at the health club.
4. To move or be conveyed in opposite directions at the same time: Our letters must have crossed in the mail.
5. Biology. To crossbreed or cross-fertilize.

1. Lying or passing crosswise; intersecting: a cross street.
2. Contrary or counter; opposing.
3. Showing ill humor; annoyed.
4. Involving interchange; reciprocal.
5. Crossbred; hybrid.

cross over

1. To change from one condition or loyalty to another.
2. Genetics. To exchange genetic material. Used of homologous chromosomes.

1. To ruin completely: Their lack of cooperation crossed up the whole project.

cross (one's) mind

1. To come to know; realize: It crossed my mind that you might want to leave early.

1. To pay, tip, or bribe.

1. To quarrel or fight.

[Middle English cros, from Old English, probably from Old Norse kross, from Old Irish cros, from Latin crux.]

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When a broker receives a buy and sell order for the same stock at the same price, and subsequently makes a simultaneous trade between two separate customers.

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This is legal only if the broker first offers the securities publicly at a price higher than the bid.

Also known as a cross order or crossing.

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Securities transaction in which the same broker acts as agent in both sides of the trade. The practice, called crossing, is legal only if the broker first offers the securities publicly at a price higher than the bid.

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noun

Something hard to bear physically or emotionally: affliction, burden, trial, tribulation. See heavy/light, over/under.

verb

1. To go across: pass, track, transit, traverse. See move/halt.
2. To pass through or over: crisscross, crosscut, cut across, decussate, intersect. See meet.
3. To remove or invalidate by or as if by running a line through or wiping clean. annul, blot (out), cancel, delete, efface, erase, expunge, obliterate, rub (out), scratch (out), strike (out), undo, wipe (out), x (out). Law vacate. See continue/stop/pause.
4. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose: baffle, balk, check, checkmate, defeat, foil, frustrate, stymie, thwart. Informal stump. Idioms: cut the ground from under. See allow/prevent.

phrasal verb - cross up

To cause the complete ruin or wreckage of: bankrupt, break down, demolish, destroy, finish, ruin, shatter, sink, smash, spoil, torpedo, undo, wash up, wrack, wreck. Slang total. Idioms: put the kibosh on. See help/harm/harmless.

adjective

Having or showing a bad temper: bad-tempered, cantankerous, crabbed, cranky, disagreeable, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, nasty, peevish, petulant, querulous, snappish, snappy, surly, testy, ugly, waspish. Informal crabby, mean. Idioms: out of sorts. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude.

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Idioms beginning with cross:
cross as a bear
cross my heart and hope to die
cross someone's palm with silver
cross someone's path
cross swords
cross to bear

See also at cross purposes; at the crossroads; caught in the middle (cross-fire); dot one's i's and cross one's t's; double cross; get one's wires crossed.

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Definition: very angry; in a bad mood
Antonyms: animated, cheerful, happy, pleasant

v

Definition: betray, hinder
Antonyms: abet, aid, assist, help

v

Definition: hybridize, mix
Antonyms: unmix

v

Definition: intersect, lie across
Antonyms: divide, part, separate

v

Definition: traverse an area
Antonyms: remain, stay

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n. a cross-shaped decoration awarded for personal valor: the Military Cross.

See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.

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Dedications of churches to St. Cross or Holy Cross are mentioned in this work only to remove misconceptions. These churches are dedicated not to a saint but to Christ on the Cross, the instrument of his humiliation, which has been venerated in Christian tradition as the object most closely associated with his redemptive death. It was believed to have been discovered at Jerusalem in 335 in the course of excavations for the foundations of Constantine's basilica of the Holy Sepulchre on Mount Calvary. Details about his mother Helen's share in the find, together with some cures associated with it, may be apocryphal. Cyril of Jerusalem wrote in 346 that ‘the saving wood of the Cross was found at Jerusalem in the time of Constantine and that it was disturbed fragment by fragment from this spot’. The stem and title of the Cross were venerated at Jerusalem before the end of the 4th century, described by the pilgrim Etheria and others. From there it spread to Rome, where the basilica of S. Croce was built to house relics of the Passion and Cross, and thence to other churches in the West.

One sign of Anglo-Saxon veneration of the Cross is the fine poem The Dream of the Rood, with unites patristic theology with heroic ideals. Part of it was written in runic characters on the Ruthwell Cross (c.700) and part on the 10th-century Brussels reliquary, which contains a piece of the Cross given to King Alfred by Pope Marinus in 885. Later evidence for its veneration is found in the poem Elene, in calendars, martyrologies, and at least 106 ancient dedications, including those of Holyrood Abbey (Scotland) and St. Cross (Winchester). Later legends about the Cross were recorded in the Golden Legend and illustrated by artists such as Piero della Francesca in the church of San Francesco, Arezzo (Tuscany).

Feasts of the Holy Cross are the Exaltation on 14 September (which commemorates its restoration to Jerusalem by the Emperor Heraclius) and the Finding on 3 May. The latter was suppressed in the 1969 revision of the Roman calendar, but the former retained.

Bibliography
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• O.D.C.C., s.v.; M. Swanton, The Dream of the Rood (1970)

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The many ways in which material representations of the cross, and the gesture of prayer and blessing called the Sign of the Cross, are used in official religious rituals need not be listed here. At the level of folk custom and belief, the cross functions as a powerful protection against evil, and hence as a way of ensuring luck. Children draw a cross on themselves with thumb or finger (generally licking it first) as a form of oath, saying ‘Cross my heart and wish I may die!’ To draw it on one's shoe is said to cure cramps, and revive a foot that has ‘gone to sleep’; Coleridge recalled this from his schooldays, with the rhyme:

Foot, foot, foot is fast asleep!
Thumb, thumb, thumb in spittle we steep!
Crosses three we make to ease us,
Two for the thieves and one for Jesus!

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1. An object consisting primarily of two straight or nearly straight pieces forming right angles with one another; the usual symbol of the Christian religion.
2. A monument or small building of any kind surmounted by a cross, 1, as a market cross.
3. A pipe cross.

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1. a cross-shaped figure or structure.
2. any organism produced by mating genetically distinct individuals. See also crossbreeding, cruciate.

• c.-cut grid — see cross-hatch grid.
• c. pregnancy — the fetus is in the horn on the side opposite to the corpus luteum.
• c. table — see horizontal beam.
• c. tie — a common method of restraining a horse for simple procedures such as grooming. The horse is tied to a pillar on either side, the shorter and tighter the better and preferably from the cheek dees of a hackamore. The head should be kept high to avoid the horse lashing out with both feet at once.

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Devil's Dictionary: cross
n.

An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significance to the most solemn event in the history of Christianity, but really antedating it by thousands of years. By many it has been believed to be identical with the crux ansata of the ancient phallic worship, but it has been traced even beyond all that we know of that, to the rites of primitive peoples. We have to-day the White Cross as a symbol of chastity, and the Red Cross as a badge of benevolent neutrality in war. Having in mind the former, the reverend Father Gassalasca Jape smites the lyre to the effect following:

    "Be good, be good!" the sisterhood
Cry out in holy chorus,
And, to dissuade from sin, parade
Their various charms before us.
But why, O why, has ne'er an eye
Seen her of winsome manner
And youthful grace and pretty face
Flaunting the White Cross banner?
Now where's the need of speech and screed
To better our behaving?
A simpler plan for saving man
(But, first, is he worth saving?)
Is, dears, when he declines to flee
From bad thoughts that beset him,
Ignores the Law as 't were a straw,
And wants to sin -- don't let him.

Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

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Cross (Straight punch)

Cross for the stop in Burmese boxing
Also known as	France: Direct (bras arrière) Japan: Gyaku-zuki China: 直拳/後手直拳 Thailand: Mud Trong Burma: Pyon Latt-di
Focus	Striking

In boxing, a cross (also commonly called a "straight")^[1] is a power-punch like the uppercut and hook. Compubox, a computerized punch scoring system, counts the cross as a power-punch.

It is a punch usually thrown with the dominant hand the instant an opponent leads with his opposite hand. The blow crosses over the leading arm, hence its name.

A right straight punch (cross)

A left straight punch (cross)

A cross in counterpunch (cross-counter)

Technique

From the guard position, the rear hand is thrown from the chin, crossing the body and travelling towards the target in a straight line. The rear shoulder is thrust forward and finishes just touching the outside of the chin. At the same time, the lead hand is retracted and tucked against the face to protect the inside of the chin. For additional power, the torso and hips are rotated anti-clockwise (for right-handers) as the cross is thrown. Weight is also transferred from the rear foot to the lead foot, resulting in the rear heel turning outwards as it acts as a fulcrum for the transfer of weight. Body rotation and the sudden weight transfer is what gives the cross its power. Like the jab, a half-step forward may be added. After the cross is thrown, the hand is retracted quickly and the guard position resumed. It can be used to counterpunch a jab, aiming for the opponent's head (or a counter to a cross aimed at the body) or to set up a hook. The cross can also follow a jab, creating the classic "one-two combo." The cross is also called a "straight" or "right."

References

1. ^ Difference between a straight right and a right cross in boxing. URL last accessed July 8, 2010.

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