Kreuzspinne

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: 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.

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

Definition: Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.

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

Example: Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross.

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

Definition: A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.

Example: She made the cross after swearing.

Definition: A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.

Example: She was wearing a cross on her necklace.

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

Example: It's a cross I must bear.

Definition: The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other

Example: A quick cross of the road.

Definition: An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.

Definition: (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.

Definition: A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.

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

Definition: A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).

Definition: A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)

Definition: 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.

Definition: Church lands.

Definition: A line drawn across or through another line.

Definition: An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.

Definition: A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.

Definition: (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.

Definition: The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.

Definition: Crossfire.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To make or form a cross.

Definition: To move relatively.

Definition: (social) To oppose.

Definition: To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.

Example: They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.

Definition: 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.

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Transverse; lying across the main direction.

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

Definition: Opposite, opposed to.

Example: His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.

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

Definition: Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.

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

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

Example: cross interrogatories

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Across

Example: She walked cross the mountains.

Definition: Cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.

Example: The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.

Definition: A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

Definition: A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).

Example: 2002, Katharine Gasparini, Cranberry and vanilla ice cream spider, recipe in Cool Food, page 339.

Definition: An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.

Definition: A spindly person.

Definition: A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.

Definition: A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension; a bridge.

Definition: A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.

Definition: Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer

Definition: A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.

Definition: Heroin (street drug).

Definition: Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.

Definition: A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.

Definition: (fly fishing) a soft-hackle fly

Definition: The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard

Definition: A spider graph or spider tree

Definition: A type of light phaeton.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To move like a spider.

Definition: To cover a surface like a cobweb.

Definition: (of a computer program) To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

Example: The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.