Through vs Cross - What's the difference?
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From one side of an opening to the other.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
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, title= Surrounded by (while moving).
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, title= By means of.
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, title= (lb) To (or up to) and including, with all intermediate values.
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Passing from one side of an object to the other.
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Finished; complete.
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Valueless; without a future.
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No longer interested.
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*:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
*1977 , Iggy Pop,
*:I'm worth a million in prizes / Yeah, I'm through with sleeping on the sidewalk / No more beating my brains / No more beating my brains / With the liquor and drugs / With the liquor and drugs
Proceeding from origin to destination without delay due to change of equipment.
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From one side to the other by way of the interior.
From one end to the other.
To the end.
Completely.
Out into the open.
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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#*: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.
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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.
#* (James David Forbes) (1809-1868)
# (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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## (label) To score a try.
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, title= (label) To oppose.
# (label) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
# To interfere and cut off; to debar.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# (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 prepositions the difference between through and cross
is that through is from one side of an opening to the other while cross is across.As adjectives the difference between through and cross
is that through is passing from one side of an object to the other while cross is transverse; lying across the main direction.As nouns the difference between through and cross
is that through is a large slab of stone laid on a tomb while cross is 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.As an adverb through
is from one side to the other by way of the interior.As a verb cross is
to make or form a cross.As a proper noun Cross is
{{surname|topographic|from=Middle English}} for someone who lived near a stone cross on a road.through
English
Alternative forms
* thorow (obsolete) * thruEtymology 1
From (etyl) *. See also thorough.Preposition
(English prepositions)Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
No hiding place, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere.
citation, passage=But the home side were ahead in the eighth minute through 18-year-old Oxlade-Chamberlain.}}
The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
Derived terms
(terms derived using the preposition "through") * clear through * feedthrough * get through * go through * look through * right through * through and through * through with * throughput * throughwayAdjective
(-)Adverb
(-)- The arrow went straight through .
- Others slept; he worked straight through .
- She read the letter through .
- He said he would see it through .
- Leave the yarn in the dye overnight so the color soaks through .
- The American army broke through at St. Lo.
References
* Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition , Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8Etymology 2
From (etyl)cross
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
citation, page= , passage=And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside. }}
- 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