Overlapping or crossing, as the wings of some insects when at rest. 重叠的,交叉的某些昆虫休息时其翅膀重迭的或交叉的
Having the form of a cross; cross-shaped. 十字形的有十字形状的;十字形的
We crossed that brook easily. 我们很容易地跨过了小河。
crossed
[ adj ]
placed crosswise
<adj.all> spoken with a straight face but crossed fingers crossed forks seated with arms across
(of a check) marked for deposit only as indicated by having two lines drawn across it
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Cross \Cross\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crossed} (kr[o^]st; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crossing}.] 1. To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms.
2. To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t.
3. To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.
A hunted hare . . . crosses and confounds her former track. -- I. Watts.
4. To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. ``Your kind letter crossed mine.'' --J. D. Forbes.
5. To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with.
In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing. --Shak.
An oyster may be crossed in love. -- Sheridan.
6. To interfere and cut off; to debar. [Obs.]
To cross me from the golden time I look for. --Shak.
7. To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.
8. To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name.
9. To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.
{To cross a check} (Eng. Banking), to draw two parallel transverse lines across the face of a check, with or without adding between them the words ``and company'', with or without the words ``not negotiable'', or to draw the transverse lines simply, with or without the words ``not negotiable'' (the check in any of these cases being crossed generally). Also, to write or print across the face of a check the name of a banker, with or without the words ``not negotiable'' (the check being then crossed specially). A check crossed generally is payable only when presented through a bank; one crossed specially, only when presented through the bank mentioned. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{To cross one's path}, to oppose one's plans. --Macaulay.
During the first five months of this year, 3,231 Romanians crossed ilegally into Hungary, deputy Interior Minister Zoltan Gal said last week.
"Right now, we've got our fingers crossed that this wind isn't going to be that harsh," said fire information officer Dick Guth. That fire is considered about 60 percent contained.
She said she saw crack cocaine made and sold, saw organization members get paid up to $800 a week and saw people beaten who crossed the Chambers brothers. "I got pulled into it.
The two Democrats held a private meeting when their paths crossed in New Jersey on Sunday, and the Massachusetts governor sounded anything but worried about the prospects for party unity this fall.
When we reached the bottom it was as though we had crossed a divide between the two geographies and personalities of Ecuador.
Flood waters also crossed an airstrip.
But she said the incident taught her students "that in a democracy you can protest things you don't like." School Superintendent Walter Gibson said Chan "crossed a line," but he didn't plan any disciplinary action.
A number of British citizens crossed the Kuwait-Saudi border on Friday night.
Only 2 percent of unionized Eastern pilots have crossed picket lines, he said.
When he heard the Who were reforming several months ago, civic center manager Jack Kelley said he began making overtures to the band and kept his fingers crossed.
Baldizon crossed the border from Nicaragua to Honduras in July 1985 and began making allegations of Sandinista atrocities and drug trafficking.
On Wednesday, the Sandinista government denied Honduran claims that its soldiers crossed into Honduras to attack a border post.
Nearly 1,000 South African soldiers, who supported Angola's anti-Marxist guerrillas, crossed into South-West Africa on Tuesday, said Lt.
"You can't have every `t' crossed and every `i' dotted," Bush said.
Shipilov crossed himself every time he rose to speak _ something he says he did even while locked up.
The merits of brevity seem never to have crossed their publishers' minds.
A federal regulator told the Senate Ethics Committee today that he believed Arizona Sen. Dennis DEConcini crossed the bounds of propriety in trying to help savings and loan owner Charles Keating Jr.
"He stayed up all night," Young said. "You'd look in the margin and see as many as four or five different words in one place, where he'd crossed it out, selected another one.
Even pilots who have crossed the picket lines have had to undergo some retraining after being on strike for months.
But that, says Sir Paul, has never crossed his mind. 'In the process, you would change your policy.
His knees weak with fright, Bernhardt crossed the strip of land separating the tower from the 10 foot-high steel-mesh fence blocking his way to West Berlin.
Nearly 1,300 attendants crossed picket lines, according to court records.
Diplomatic intervention apparently resulted in their release, and they appear to have crossed again into Djibouti.
But if the favored hand and eye don't match, they have crossed dominance.
Dr. Rudolf Brutoco said Anissa could still face a crisis if her disease advances. "We're keeping our fingers crossed she stays healthy," he said.
"I'm superstitious _ since one hand is crossed the other one can't be, because it would cancel the other out," quipped Nancy Reagan's spokeswoman, Elaine Crispen.
One man crossed himself as he got off the Appia.
In the past, when OPEC output crossed the 80% threshold, he said, prices became far more volatile.
The United States claims it sent in soldiers at Honduras' request after Nicaraguan troops crossed the border in an effort to wipe out the U.S.-supported Contras.
"I was in the back seat the whole way," he said. "I was dressed as an Arab, playing deaf and dumb." Hawkins said he crossed into Jordan after walking about six miles through the desert.