Cross vs Nasty - What's the difference?

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Cross is a related term of nasty.

As a proper noun cross

is for someone who lived near a stone cross on a road.

As an adjective nasty is

As a noun nasty is

(lb) something nasty.

cross

English

Noun

(es)

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.

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

(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).

Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross .

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

A hand gesture made by Catholics in imitation of the shape of the Cross.

She made the cross after swearing.

* Sir Walter Scott

Before the cross has waned the crescent's ray.

* Cowper

'Tis where the cross is preached.

(Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.

She was wearing a cross on her necklace.

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

It's a cross I must bear.

* Ben Jonson

Heaven prepares a good man with crosses .

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

A quick cross of the road.

(biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.

(by extension) A hybrid of any kind.

* Lord Dufferin

Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler

(boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.

(football) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.

* {{quote-news

, year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside. }}

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

I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse.

(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.

Synonyms

* (production of cross-breeding or -fertilization) hybrid * (cross on which Christ was crucified) True Cross

Derived terms

* Celtic cross * crossroads * cross-stitch * double cross * fiery cross * Latin cross * left cross * Maltese cross * Saint Andrew's cross * * True Cross * right cross

Adjective

(er)

Transverse; lying across the main direction.

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

* Isaac Newton

the cross refraction of the second prism

(archaic) Opposite, opposed to.

His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.

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

*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.50:

As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences.

* Jeremy Taylor

a cross fortune

* Glanvill

the cross and unlucky issue of my design

* South

The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvellously cross to the common experience of mankind.

* Dryden

We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross , / One must be happy by the other's loss.

Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.

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.

* Jeremy Taylor

He had received a cross answer from his mistress.

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

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, irritated

Derived terms

* cross cut * cross-examine * crossly * cross-multiplication * crosspatch * cross purposes * cross-section * cross-wise

Preposition

(English prepositions)

(archaic) across

She walked cross the mountains.

* L'Estrange

A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village.

cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.

The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.

Verb

(es)

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)

#*:An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

# To make the sign of the cross over oneself.

To move relatively.

# (label) To go from one side of (something) to the other.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.}}

#* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 19, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport

, title= 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.}}

# (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.

#* (James David Forbes) (1809-1868)

Your kind letter crossed mine.

# (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.

## (label) To score a try.

##* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=February 12, author=Mark Orlovac, work=BBC

, title= 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. }}

(label) To oppose.

# (label) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.

# To interfere and cut off; to debar.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

to cross me from the golden time I look for

# (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.

Synonyms

* (to cross-fertilize or crossbreed) cross-fertilize, crossbreed

Derived terms

* crossing * cross off * cross one's arms * cross one's fingers * cross one's heart * cross one's legs * cross out * cross over * crossover * cross paths * cross someone's palm * cross the aisle * crossword

nasty

English

Adjective

(er)

*2006 , Marie Fontaine, The Chronicles of my Ghetto Street Volume One , p. 156:

*:I really don't have any friends at school Mama Mia. They talk about me all the time. They say my hair's nappy and my clothes are nasty .

*{{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty

, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty , brutish and short.}}

Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person).

*1897 , (Bram Stoker), Dracula :

*:Jonathan kept staring at him, till I was afraid he would notice. I feared he might take it ill, he looked so fierce and nasty .

Objectionable, unpleasant (of a thing); repellent, offensive.

*1838 , (Charles Dickens), Oliver Twist :

*:‘It's a nasty trade,’ said Mr. Limbkins, when Gamfield had again stated his wish.

Indecent or offensive; obscene, lewd.

*1933 , (Dorothy L Sayers), Murder Must Advertise :

*:He said to Mr. Tallboy he thought the headline was a bit hot. And Mr. Tallboy said he had a nasty mind.

*2009 , Okera H, Be Your Priority, Not His Option , Mill City Press 2009, p. 45:

*:We want threesomes, blowjobs, and orgies. That's just the way it is. We want the good girl who's nasty in bed.

Spiteful, unkind.

*2012 , The Guardian , 3 Jun 2012:

*:She had said: "I love the block button on Twitter. I don't know how people expect to send a nasty comment and not get blocked."

*2007 , The Observer , 5 Aug 2007:

*:There was a nasty period during the First World War when the family's allegiance was called into question - not least because one of the Schroders had been made a baron by the Kaiser.

*2012 , James Ball, The Guardian , 2 Mar 2012:

*:Moving into the middle ages, William the Conqueror managed to rout the English and rule the country, then see off numerous plots and assassination attempts, before his horse did for him in a nasty fall, killing him at 60.

Noun

(nasties)

(lb) Something nasty.

Processed foods are full of aspartame and other nasties .

This video game involves flying through a maze zapping various nasties .

Sexual intercourse.

Derived terms

* do the nasty * nastygram * video nasty

Anagrams

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