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<A NAME="crossindex">
<B>cross index,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an index of cross-references. </DL>
<A NAME="crossindex">
<B>cross-index, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to index (a reference) under another heading as a cross-reference. <DD><B> 2. </B>to provide (a book, periodical, or index) with cross-references. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to be cross-indexed; contain a cross index. </DL>
<A NAME="crossinfection">
<B>cross-infection, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an infection transmitted between hospital patients having different infectious diseases. </DL>
<A NAME="crossing">
<B>crossing, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the place where lines or tracks cross; intersection. <BR> <I>Ex. "Railroad crossing! Stop! Look! Listen!"</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the place at which a street or river may be crossed. <BR> <I>Ex. White lines mark the crossing.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the act of going across, especially a voyage across water. <BR> <I>Ex. The ocean liner makes the crossing from New York to England every two weeks.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the part of a cruciform church where the transept crosses the nave. <DD><B> 5. </B>an opposing; a thwarting. <DD><B> 6. </B><B>=crossbreeding.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="crossingguard">
<B>crossing guard,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person, usually uniformed, who, for pay or as a public service, directs traffic and helps school children cross the street at busy intersections. </DL>
<A NAME="crossingover">
<B>crossing over,</B> or <B>crossing-over, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Biology.) the mutual exchange of genes between homologous chromosomes during meiosis. </DL>
<A NAME="crossjack">
<B>crossjack, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a square sail on the lower yard of a mizzenmast. </DL>
<A NAME="crosskick">
<B>cross-kick, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Rugby.) <DD><I>noun </I> a kick toward the side; sideways kick. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to give (the ball) a cross-kick. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to make a cross-kick. </DL>
<A NAME="crosslegged">
<B>cross-legged, </B>adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>with one leg over the other and the knees together. <DD><B> 2. </B>with the ankles crossed and the knees apart. </DL>
<A NAME="crosslet">
<B>crosslet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small cross, used as a bearing in heraldry. </DL>
<A NAME="crosslicense">
<B>cross-license, </B>noun, verb, <B>-censed,</B> <B>-censing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> an exchange of licenses to use each other's patents for a specified period. <BR> <I>Ex. The two companies arranged a royalty-free cross-license.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to exchange such licenses of patent. </DL>
<A NAME="crosslight">
<B>crosslight, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a light that crosses the direction of another light and illuminates parts which the other leaves in shade. <BR><I>expr. <B>crosslights,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>lights whose rays cross each other. </I> <I>Ex. The windows on the other sides were darkened to avoid crosslights.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>enlightenment from various unrelated or conflicting sources. <BR> <I>Ex. The fluctuations and crosslights of Lawrence's criticism ... result in a view of literature of considerable subtlety and complexity (Listener).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="crosslink">
<B>cross-link, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a crosswise connection. <BR> <I>Ex. Links and cross-links make a pattern of overlapping spiders' webs (Manchester Guardian).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Chemistry.) a long molecular chain joined to another chain at intervals between atomic cores for the purpose of strengthening a material, as rubber in the process of vulcanization. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to join (a molecular chain) to. <BR> <I>Ex. If the two threads of a chromosome were cross-linked before a cell divided, the two could not separate properly during division and abnormalities would result (Scientific American).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to establish cross-links. <BR> <I>Ex. Cross-linking increases strength and toughness in plastic film which has been irradiated (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="crosslinkage">
<B>cross-linkage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the process of establishing chemical bonds between atomic cores of different molecular chains. <BR> <I>Ex. Certain kinds of ... cross-linkages ... make the protein molecules incapable of taking further part in body processes (Science News Letter).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=cross-link.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="crosslode">
<B>cross lode,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Mining.) a lode or vein which does not follow the regular and ordinary course of the productive lodes of the district, but intersects them at an angle. </DL>
<A NAME="crossmatch">
<B>cross-match, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to determine the compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood before transfusion. It is done by placing red cells of the donor and the recipient into the other's serum. If no agglutination occurs after cross-matching, the blood specimens are compatible. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to subject (blood) to cross-matching. </DL>
<A NAME="crossmate">
<B>cross-mate, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-mated,</B> <B>-mating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to mate or breed different varieties or species; cross; crossbreed. </DL>
<A NAME="crossmodal">
<B>cross-modal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Psychology.) of or having to do with cross-modality. </DL>
<A NAME="crossmodality">
<B>cross-modality, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Psychology.) the ability to match or associate things perceived through different senses, such as spoken words with written words. </DL>
<A NAME="crossmodulation">
<B>cross-modulation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Electronics.) a distortion or interference occurring when the carrier of a desired signal is modulated by an unwanted signal, as in radio transmission. <BR> <I>Ex. Watch for "cross-modulation," the undesirable presence of a strong, local station on two or three points around the dial (Saturday Review).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="crossopterygian">
<B>crossopterygian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with a group of fish which, except for a species found off South Africa, is now believed to be extinct. <BR> <I>Ex. The crossopterygian fishes gave rise to the amphibians and vanished almost totally (Scientific American).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a crossopterygian fish. </DL>
<A NAME="crossover">
<B>crossover, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>anything that crosses over or connects: <DD><B> a. </B>a small bridge over a highway or parkway. <DD><B> b. </B>a process of coordinating low and high frequencies over high-fidelity speakers by feeding the low frequencies to a bass speaker and the high frequencies to a treble speaker. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Biology.) <DD><B> a. </B><B>=crossing over.</B> <DD><B> b. </B>the characteristic inherited by crossing over. <DD><B> 3. </B>a blend of the jazz form with other types of popular music or an adaptation of the jazz form to various styles and formats; fusion. <BR> <I>Ex. Although the crossover trend was the most conspicuous aspect of jazz, some artists gained respect through pure jazz performances that reached a small but loyal audience (Leonard Feather).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="crosspatch">
<B>crosspatch, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a cross, bad-tempered person. </DL>
<A NAME="crosspeen">
<B>cross peen,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a machinists' hammer having a peen with a rounded edge running across or perpendicular to the direction of the handle. </DL>
<A NAME="crosspiece">
<B>crosspiece, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a piece of wood, metal, or other material, that is placed across something. <BR> <I>Ex. [He] reflexively put his hand on a crosspiece between panes of glass, as if he had a mind to raise the window (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="crossply">
<B>cross-ply, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) of or having to do with a kind of tire in which the plies of cord fabric are laid to cross each other diagonally. </DL>
<A NAME="crosspollinate">
<B>cross-pollinate, </B>verb, <B>-nated,</B> <B>-nating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to cause cross-pollination in. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to be subjected to cross-pollination. </DL>
<A NAME="crosspollination">
<B>cross-pollination, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the transfer of pollen from the anther of one flower to the stigma of another, on the same plant or on another plant of the same species. Insects and wind are agents of cross-pollination. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=cross-fertilization.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) cultural cross-pollination.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="crossproduct">
<B>cross product,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Mathematics.) a vector quantity whose length is the product of the lengths of two vectors and the sine of the angle between them; vector product; outer product. It is denoted by a cross placed between the two vectors, as in <I>A X B.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="crosspurpose">
<B>cross-purpose, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an opposing or contrary purpose. <BR><I>expr. <B>at cross-purposes,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>misunderstanding each other's purpose. </I> <I>Ex. Let's set things right; we've been at cross-purposes.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>acting under such a misunderstanding. <BR> <I>Ex. For ten years the sisters continued at cross-purposes, though a single meeting would have cleared up their quarrel.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>cross-purposes,</B> </I>a game of questioning and answering in which words having different meanings are used. <BR> <I>Ex. I won't pay you the kisses you won from me last night at cross-purposes (George Farquhar).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="crossquestion">
<B>cross-question, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to question closely; cross-examine. <DD><I>noun </I> a question asked in cross-examining. </DL>
<A NAME="crossrail">
<B>crossrail, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a piece of wood, metal, or other material, that lies across something. </DL>
<A NAME="crossrefer">
<B>cross-refer, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-ferred,</B> <B>-ferring.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to refer from one part to another. <DD><B> 2. </B>to make a cross-reference. </DL>
<A NAME="crossreference">
<B>cross-reference, </B>noun, verb, <B>-enced,</B> <B>-encing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a reference from one part of a book, index, or table, to another. "See picture under <B>bit</B> (3)," at <B>brace,</B> is a cross-reference. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to provide with cross-references. <BR> <I>Ex. Well thought out, clearly printed, skillfully cross-referenced (Scientific American).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=cross-refer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="crossrelation">
<B>cross relation,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) a contradiction in chromatic relationship between notes in different voices sounded successively or simultaneously, as a C natural in one part and a C sharp in the other; false relation. </DL>
