Crisscross

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To mark with crossing lines.
  • v. To move back and forth through or over: crisscrossed the country on a speaking tour.
  • verb-intransitive. To move back and forth.
  • n. A mark or pattern made of crossing lines.
  • n. A state of being at conflicting or contrary purposes.
  • adj. Crossing one another or marked by crossings.
  • ad. In a manner or direction that crosses or is marked by crossings.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To move back and forth (over something.)
  • v. To mark something with crossed lines.
  • n. A pattern of crossed lines.
  • adj. marked with crossed lines
  • ad. crossing one another
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.
  • n. A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.
  • v. To mark or cover with cross lines.
  • ad. In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways.
  • ad. With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as christ-cross.
  • n. A crossing or intersection; a congeries of intersecting lines.
  • n. A game played on a slate, or on paper, by children, in which two players set down alternately, in a series of squares, the one a cross, the other a cipher. The object of the game is to get three of the same characters in a row. Also called tit-tat-to.
  • Like a cross or a series of crosses; crossed and recrossed; going back and forth.
  • To form a crisscross; intersect frequently.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cross in a pattern, often random
  • n. a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
  • v. mark with or consist of a pattern of crossed lines
  • v. mark with a pattern of crossing lines
  • ad. crossing one another in opposite directions
  • adj. marked with crossing lines
  • Equivalent
    reticular    reticulate   
    Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cover    cut through    get over    track    cut across   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    contrarily    cross    gridiron    crosswise   
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