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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: krŏs, IPA: /kɹɒs/
• (dialects of the 米国発音, lot–cloth split) enPR: krôs, IPA: /kɹɔs/
• (General American, cot–caught merger, dialects of Canada) enPR: krŏs, IPA: /kɹɑs/
• (Canada, dialects of the 米国発音) IPA: /kɹɒs/
• (General Australian) IPA: /kɹɔs/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /kɹɒs/, [kɹɔ̟s]
• (Scotland) IPA: /kɹɔs/
• 韻: -ɒs, -ɔːs

名詞

cross (plural crosses)

1. 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.

   Coordinate terms: (similar shapes) tee, T, t; ex, x; chi, χ, (marks meaning yes or no) tick, check, checkmark, ❎, ❌

   Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one.

2. (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.

   Hypernym: charge

   Hyponyms: cross flory, cross crosslet, cross moline, cross pattée, cross bottony, see others

3. A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).

   Synonym: crucifix

   Coordinate terms: gibbet, gallows

   Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross.

4. (Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of Cross (“the Crucifix, the cross on which Christ was crucified”).

   True Cross

   • 1811, Walter Scott, The Vision of Don Roderick; a Poem, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for John Ballantyne and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, stanza XXVII, page 31:

     From the dim landscape roll the clouds away— / The Christians have regained their heritage; / Before the Cross has waned the Crescent's ray, / And many a monastery decks the stage, / And lofty church, and low-brow'd hermitage.

5. (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross; sign of the cross.

   Synonym: sign of the cross

   She made the cross after swearing.

6. (Christianity) Any representation of the crucifix, as in religious architecture, burial markers, jewelry, etc.

   Synonym: crucifix

   She was wearing a cross on her necklace.

7. (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.

   It's a cross I must bear.

   • 1641, Ben Jonson, Timber:

     Heaven prepares good men with crosses.

   • 1995, “You Oughta Know”, in Jagged Little Pill, performed by Alanis Morissette:

     It's not fair to deny me / Of the cross I bear that you gave to me / You, you, you oughta know

8. The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other

   A quick cross of the road.

9. (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.

   Synonym: hybrid

10. One element of a hybrid species or type.
    • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 471:

      The native Amboynese who reside in the city are a strange half-civilized, half-savage lazy people, who seem to be a mixture of at least three races - Portuguese, Malay, and Papuan or Ceramese, with an occasional cross of Chinese or Dutch.

11. (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
    • 1856, Lord Dufferin, Letters from High Latitudes:

      Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler

12. (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
13. (soccer) A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
    • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎:

      And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.

14. A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
15. A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
16. (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.
    • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

      I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse.

17. (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
    • 1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued:

      the church-lands lying within the same, which were called the Cross

18. A line across or through another line.
19. (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
20. A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
21. (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
22. (cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
23. (archaic) A betrayal; dishonest practices, especially deliberately losing a sporting contest.
24. (slang) Crossfire.

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Japanese: クロス (kurosu)

形容詞

cross (comparative crosser, superlative crossest)

1. Transverse; lying across the main direction.

   At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.

   • 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:

     the cross refraction of the second prism

2. (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.

   Synonyms: contrarily, opposed, reverse, antipodal

   His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.

3. (now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.50:

     As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences.

   • c. 1650, Jeremy Taylor, Of Contentedness:

     a cross fortune

   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:

     the cross and unlucky issue of my designs

   • 1694, Robert South, Christianity Mysterious, and the Wisdom of God in Making it So (sermon preached at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 1694)

     The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvellously cross to the common experience of mankind.

   • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

     We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross, / One must be happy by the other's loss.

4. (chiefly British, Ottawa Valley) (of someone) Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed; (of words) tinged with anger.

   Synonyms: angry, annoyed, irritated

   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.

5. 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

6. (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.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 15:

     As my father remarked to me when I stole on deck to view the state of affairs, the sea was a "cross one," and very difficult to steer against.

7. (archaic) Dishonest.

派生語

前置詞

cross

1. (archaic) Across.

   She walked cross the mountains.

   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:

     A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village.

2. The cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.

   The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.

派生語

• cross lots

参考

• dot
• × (the multiplication sign)

動詞

cross (third-person singular simple present crosses, present participle crossing, simple past and past participle crossed)

1. To make or form a cross.
   1. To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.

      She frowned and crossed her arms.

   2. To lay or draw something across, such as a line.

      to cross the letter t

   3. To mark with an X.

      Cross the box which applies to you.

   4. To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.( Crossed letter on WikipediaWikipedia )
      • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:

        An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

   5. (reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
      • 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini's Daughter”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

        Again Beatrice crossed herself and sighed heavily as she bent over the dead insect.

   6. (transitive) To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
      • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 298:

        "Well, no! that's what I cannot make out either," said the mother quite innocently, "for I've had castor in the cradle, - I have crossed him, and I put a silver brooch in his shirt, and I stuck a knife in the beam over the door, so I don't know how they could have managed to change him."

   7. (UK, Oxford University, slang, obsolete, transitive) To mark a cross against the name of (a student) in the buttery or kitchen, so that they cannot get food there.
      • 2022, Andrew Lang, Oxford

        The reign of Mary was scarcely more favourable to letters. No one knew what to be at in religion. In Magdalen no one could be found to say Mass, the fellows were turned out, the undergraduates were whipped — boyish martyrs — and crossed at the buttery.

2. To move relatively.
   1. (transitive) 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.

      • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

        Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.

      • 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:

        Ukraine, however, will complain long and hard about a contentious second-half incident when Marko Devic's shot clearly crossed the line before it was scrambled away by John Terry, only for the officials to remain unmoved.

      • 2021 December 29, Philip Haigh, “Rail's role in unifying Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, in RAIL, number 947, page 24:

        Whatever the merits or otherwise of Scottish independence or a united UK, plenty of people cross the border every year.

   2. (intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.

      Ships crossing from starboard have right-of-way.

   3. (transitive) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
      • November 4, 1866, James David Forbes, letter to E. C. Batten Esq.

        Your kind letter crossed mine.

   4. (sports) Relative movement by a player or of players.
      1. (cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
      2. (soccer) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.

         He crossed the ball into the penalty area.

      3. (rugby) To score a try.
         • 2011 February 12, Mark Orlovac, “England 59-13 Italy”, in BBC:

           England cut loose at the end of the half, Ashton, Mark Cueto and Mike Tindall all crossing before the break.

3. (social) To oppose.
   1. (transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.

      "You'll rue the day you tried to cross me, Tom Hero!" bellowed the villain.

      • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

        At length I begged him, with all the earnestness I felt, to tell me what had occurred to cross him so unusually, and to let me sympathize with him, if I could not hope to advise him.

      • 1995, “Gangsta's Paradise”, in Artis Ivey, Jr., Karry Sanders, Doug Rasheed (lyrics), Gangsta's Paradise (CD), performed by Coolio and L.V., Tommy Boy, →OCLC:

        But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it / Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of / You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin' / Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

   2. (transitive, obsolete) To interfere and cut off ; to debar.
      • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

        to cross me from the golden time I look for

   3. (law) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
4. (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.

   Synonyms: cross-fertilize, crossbreed

   They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.

   • 1978, Kim Applegate Peggs, Carpenter, volume 96, page 16:

     Question: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino?
     Answer : El-if-I-no.

5. (transitive) 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.
   • 1924, Commerce Reports, volume 1, number 13, page 849:

     The English practice of crossing checks so that payment may be made to the bank account or to order is prevalent.

Conjugation

下位語

• crisscross

派生語

語源

From 古期英語 cros, borrowed from Old Norse kross, borrowed from Old Irish cros, borrowed from Latin crux. Doublet of crouche and croys.

発音

• IPA: /krɔs/

名詞

cross (plural crosses)

1. A cross or gibbet (wooden frame for execution).
2. The Holy Cross; Christ's cross.
3. A representation of a cross; the cross as a Christian symbol:
   1. (heraldry) A cross in heraldry.
   2. A crucifix (cross-shaped structure).
   3. A crosier (clerical staff)
   4. The intersection of drawn lines, especially as a signature.
4. (figurative) The cross in Christian metaphor:
   1. Crucifixion; nailing to a cross.
   2. Suffering, penury.
   3. (biblical) Christianity; the Christian religion.
5. The sign of the cross.

派生した語

• English: cross
  • → Japanese: クロス (kurosu)
• Scots: cross, cros

参照

• “cros, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2018.

接頭辞

cross-

1. Shaped like a cross or X; crossing lines.

   e.g. crossbody, crossbuck, cross-stitch

   Synonym: stauro- Synonym: xipho-

2. Perpendicular in angle; transverse.

   e.g. crossbedding, crossband, crossmember

   Synonym: ortho-. See visuals for difference between crossband and crossbuck.

3. Moving from one side to the other; across.

   e.g. crossfield, cross-city. When used for a rectangular space, this movement is typically diagonal, such as in crossbelt and crosscourt.

   Synonym: dia-.

   1. (figurative) Moving from one track or state to another.

      e.g. crossfeed as the process of blending the left and right channels of a stereo recording, crossfader, cross-link

      Synonym: inter-

   2. On the opposite side of.

      e.g. crosstown, cross-cousin, cross-ratio

      Synonym: contra-, Synonym: para-

4. Moving or acting against, opposing, contrary.

   e.g. crossflow, cross-beat, cross-vote

   Synonym: ana-, Synonym: counter-

5. Located in between. Often, but not necessarily, forming an H-shaped structure.

   e.g. cross-passage, cross-tunnel, crossfire

   Synonym: inter-

6. More than one, often in indicating applicability to several domains that are usually separate.

   e.g. crosslingual, cross-browser, crossfunctional, cross-cultural

   Synonym: multi-, Synonym: pluri-

   1. Involving two or more at the same time; coincident.

      e.g. crossbreak, crosspost, crosscurrent

      Synonym: synchro-

      • 1967 May, William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, Bantam, published 1976, →ISBN, page 14:

        The room was a cross-mixture of voices.
        "Come in Kelly 4. […] "
        "Come in Stanhope. […] "
        "Evans 9. Confirm. […] "

   2. Comparing two sources of information, often to verify their contents.

      e.g. crossdate, crossvalidated, crosscovariance

      Synonym: co-

   3. To combine two entities to create a hybrid.

      e.g. crossbreed, cross-pollinate, crosslinear

      Synonym: zygo-

7. Mutual exchange or influence, where both entities are affected in the same way. Mutuality.

   e.g. crosstalk, crossrepression, crosscalibration, cross-progress

   Synonym: ambi-

8. One entity affecting a similar entity, such as to transfer of one property from one entity to the other.

   e.g. crossregulation, crossfeed, crossprotection

   To crossfeed as to supply one fuel tank of an aircraft with fuel from another. To crossregulate is when one metabolic pathway is regulated by the enzymes in another pathway. These are one-way influences, whereas the previous sense of mutuality has symmetric two-way influences; e.g. crossrepression is mutual repression of interacting systems.

   Synonym: trans-

9. Alternate, different.

   e.g. cross-tune, cross-birth, cross-live

   Synonym: allo-, Synonym: alter-

同意語

• (mutual): inter-, x- (abbreviation)

派生語