Inside vs Cross - What's the difference?
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The interior or inner or lesser part.
* (William Shakespeare)
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, title= The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
(colloquial) (in the plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.
(dated, UK, colloquial) A passenger within a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside.
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* (Charles Dickens), (The Pickwick Papers)
Within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.
Within or towards the interior of something, especially a building.
(colloquial) In prison.
Originating from or arranged by someone inside an organisation.
(baseball) A pitch that is toward the batter as it crosses home plate.
Nearer to the interior of a running track, horse racing course etc.
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.
(heraldiccharge) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
(usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
A hand gesture made by Catholics in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
* Sir Walter Scott
* Cowper
(Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
(figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross ) A difficult situation that must be endured.
* Ben Jonson
The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
(biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
(by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
* Lord Dufferin
(boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
(football) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
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A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross ).
A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross )
(obsolete) 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.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
A line drawn across or through another line.
(surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
(Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
Transverse; lying across the main direction.
* Isaac Newton
(archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
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* Jeremy Taylor
* Glanvill
* South
* Dryden
Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
* Jeremy Taylor
Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
(archaic) across
* L'Estrange
cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
To make or form a .
# To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
# To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
# To mark with an X.
# To write lines at right angles.(w)
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# To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
To move relatively.
# (label) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
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, title= # (label) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
# (label) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
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# (label) Relative movement by a player or of players.
## Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
## (label) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
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, title= (label) To oppose.
# (label) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
# To interfere and cut off; to debar.
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# (label) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
(label) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
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.
As a noun inside
is the interior or inner or lesser part.As a preposition inside
is within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.As an adverb inside
is within or towards the interior of something, especially a building.As an adjective inside
is originating from or arranged by someone inside an organisation.As a proper noun cross is
for someone who lived near a stone cross on a road.inside
English
Noun
(en noun)- Looked he o' the inside of the paper?
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
- So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides / The Derby dilly, carrying three insides .
- So, what between Mr. Dowler's stories, and Mrs. Dowler's charms, and Mr. Pickwick's good humour, and Mr. Winkle's good listening, the insides contrived to be very companionable all the way.
Preposition
(English prepositions)- He placed the letter inside the envelope.
Adverb
(en adverb)- It started raining, so I went inside .
- He's inside , doing a stretch for burglary.
Adjective
(en adjective)- The reporter had received inside information about the forthcoming takeover.
- The robbery was planned by the security guard: it was an inside job.
- They wanted to know the inside story behind the celebrity's fall from grace.
- The first pitch is ... just a bit inside .
- Because of the tighter bend, it's harder to run in an inside lane.
Synonyms
* indoorsAntonyms
* outsideDerived terms
* inside jobcross
English
Noun
(es)- Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one.
- Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross .
- She made the cross after swearing.
- Before the cross has waned the crescent's ray.
- 'Tis where the cross is preached.
- She was wearing a cross on her necklace.
- It's a cross I must bear.
- Heaven prepares a good man with crosses .
- A quick cross of the road.
- Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler
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- I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse.
Synonyms
* (production of cross-breeding or -fertilization) hybrid * (cross on which Christ was crucified) True CrossDerived terms
* Celtic cross * crossroads * cross-stitch * double cross * fiery cross * Latin cross * left cross * Maltese cross * Saint Andrew's cross * * True Cross * right crossAdjective
(er)- At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.
- the cross refraction of the second prism
- His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.
- As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences.
- a cross fortune
- the cross and unlucky issue of my design
- The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvellously cross to the common experience of mankind.
- We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross , / One must be happy by the other's loss.
- She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job.
- Please don't get cross''' at me.'' (or) ''Please don't get '''cross with me.
- He had received a cross answer from his mistress.
- cross interrogatories
- cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other
Synonyms
* (opposite to) contrarily, opposed, reverse, antipodal * (mildly angry) angry, annoyed, irritatedDerived terms
* cross cut * cross-examine * crossly * cross-multiplication * crosspatch * cross purposes * cross-section * cross-wisePreposition
(English prepositions)- She walked cross the mountains.
- A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village.
- The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.
Verb
(es)England 1-0 Ukraine, passage=Ukraine, however, will complain long and hard about a contentious second-half incident when Marko Devic's shot clearly crossed the line before it was scrambled away by John Terry, only for the officials to remain unmoved.}}
- Your kind letter crossed mine.
England 59-13 Italy, passage=England cut loose at the end of the half, Ashton, Mark Cueto and Mike Tindall all crossing before the break. }}
- to cross me from the golden time I look for