cross

travel across or pass over

• “The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day”

meet at a point

hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

• “What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth”
• “;”

fold so as to resemble a cross

• “she crossed her legs”

to cover or extend over an area or time period

• “Rivers traverse the valley floor”
• “The parking lot spans 3 acres”
• “The novel spans three centuries”

meet and pass

• “the trains crossed”

trace a line through or across

• “cross your”
• “'”

breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties

• “cross a horse and a donkey”
• “Mendel tried crossbreeding”
• “these species do not interbreed”

extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis

• “cross members should be all steel”
• “from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully”
• “transversal vibrations”
• “transverse colon”

perversely irritable

a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece

marking consisting of crossing lines

a cross as an emblem of Christianity; used in heraldry

any affliction that causes great suffering

• “that is his cross to bear”
• “he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns”

an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species

• “a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey”

(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids