crosier | (noun) a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office | Synonyms: crozier |
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cross | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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(noun) (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species | Synonyms: crossbreed, hybrid |
(noun) a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece | - |
(noun) a marking that consists of lines that cross each other | Synonyms: crisscross, mark |
(noun) any affliction that causes great suffering | Synonyms: crown of thorns |
crossbar | (noun) long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts | - |
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(noun) game equipment consisting of a horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over | - |
(noun) a horizontal bar that goes across something | - |
crossbeam | (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crosspiece, trave, traverse |
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crossbench | (noun) any of the seats in the House of Commons used by members who do not vote regularly with either the government or the Opposition | - |
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crossbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who does not vote regularly with either the government or the Opposition | - |
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crossbill | (noun) finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed | Synonyms: Loxia curvirostra |
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crossbones | (noun) two crossed bones (or a representation of two crossed bones) used as a symbol danger or death | - |
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crossbow | (noun) a bow fixed transversely on a wooden stock grooved to direct the arrow (quarrel) | - |
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crossbreed | (noun) (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species | Synonyms: cross, hybrid |
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crossbreeding | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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(noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: interbreeding, miscegenation |
crosscheck | (noun) an illegal check (chopping at an opponent's arms or stick) | - |
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(noun) an instance of confirming something by considering information from several sources | - |
crosscurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: countercurrent |
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(noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
crosscut | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: cutoff, shortcut |
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(noun) a diagonal path | - |
crosse | (noun) a long racket with a triangular frame; used in playing lacrosse | - |
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crossfire | (noun) fire from two or more points so that the lines of fire cross | - |
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(noun) a lively or heated interchange of ideas and opinions | - |
crosshairs | (noun) a center of interest | - |
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crosshatch | (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: hachure, hatch, hatching |
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crosshead | (noun) metal block that connects to a piston; it slides on parallel guides and moves a connecting rod back and forth | - |
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(noun) a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text | Synonyms: crossheading |
crossheading | (noun) a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text | Synonyms: crosshead |
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crossing | (noun) a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean) | - |
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(noun) traveling across | - |
(noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
(noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossover, crosswalk |
(noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossroad, crossway, intersection |
(noun) a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect | - |
(noun) a shallow area in a stream that can be forded | Synonyms: ford |
crossjack | (noun) the lowermost sail on a mizzenmast | Synonyms: mizzen course |
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crossness | (noun) a disposition to be ill-tempered | Synonyms: crabbedness, crabbiness |
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(noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness, petulance |
crossopterygian | (noun) any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form | Synonyms: lobe-finned fish, lobefin |
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crossover | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crosswalk |
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(noun) the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience | - |
(noun) a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party | Synonyms: crossover voter |
(noun) the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis | Synonyms: crossing over |
crosspatch | (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crank, grouch, grump |
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crosspiece | (noun) a transverse brace | - |
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(noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, trave, traverse |
crossroad | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossway, intersection |
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crossroads | (noun) a point where a choice must be made | - |
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(noun) a community of people smaller than a village | Synonyms: hamlet |
(noun) a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made | Synonyms: critical point, juncture |
crosstalk | (noun) the presence of an unwanted signal via an accidental coupling | Synonyms: XT |
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crosstie | (noun) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track | Synonyms: railroad tie, sleeper, tie |
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crosswalk | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crossover |
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crossway | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossroad, intersection |
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crosswind | (noun) wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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crossword | (noun) a puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues are to be found and written in to squares in the puzzle | Synonyms: crossword puzzle |
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