Meaning

• 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."

• (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.

• A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.

  "She made the cross after swearing."

• 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."

• (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."

• An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.

• (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.

• A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.

• A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.

• 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)

• 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.

• Church lands.

• A line drawn across or through another line.

• 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.

• The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.

• Crossfire.

Meaning

• To make or form a cross.

• To move relatively.

• (social) To oppose.

• To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.

  "They managed to cross a sheep with a goat."

• 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.

Meaning

• 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."

• Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.

• Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.

  "Please don't get cross at me. (or) Please don't get cross with me."

• Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.

  "cross interrogatories"

Meaning

• Across

  "She walked cross the mountains."

• Cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.

  "The Lorentz force is q times v cross B."