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CROSSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Placed crosswise
Example:
seated with arms crossed
Classified under:
Similar:
cross-town; crosstown (going or extending across a town or city)
decussate; intersectant; intersecting (crossed or intersected in the form of an X)
Antonym:
uncrossed (not crossed)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of a check) marked for deposit only as indicated by having two lines drawn across it
Classified under:
Antonym:
uncrossed ((of a check) not crossed)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb cross
Context examples:
The boat was caught as it obliquely crossed the crest of a wave.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He thought it so beautiful that he got up and ran out, and as he crossed the threshold he lost one of his slippers.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Sir Oliver and Sir Nigel stood erect with hands crossed in front of the poop.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He crossed the room and the light suddenly brightened.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They were both very white and cold, formal and unimpassioned in their bearing, but exchanging glances which crossed like rapier blades.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I plucked up courage at once, crossed the threshold, and walked right up to the man where he stood, propped on his crutch, talking to a customer.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
That was about three months before Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause and entered interstellar space.
(NASA Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space, NASA)
RPWS detected the hits of hundreds of ring particles per second when it crossed the ring plane just outside of Saturn's main rings, but only detected a few pings on April 26.
(Cassini Finds 'The Big Empty' Close to Saturn, NASA)
The best models for the region suggested that if there were ring particles in the area where Cassini crossed the ring plane, they would be tiny, on the scale of smoke particles.
(Cassini Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings, NASA)
On Sept. 2, the small body crossed under the ecliptic plane just inside of Mercury's orbit and then made its closest approach to the Sun on Sept. 9.
(Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System, NASA)
