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Crosscheck vs Comparison - What's the difference?

crosscheck | comparison |

As nouns the difference between crosscheck and comparison

is that crosscheck is (ice hockey) a penalty while comparison is the act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.

As a verb crosscheck

is (lacrosse) to hit another player with the shaft of a lacrosse stick.

crosscheck

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (ice hockey) A penalty.
  • (lacrosse) A penalty where a player hits another player with the shaft of their lacrosse stick with their hands spread apart.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lacrosse) To hit another player with the shaft of a lacrosse stick.
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 16, Dave Caldwell, Goalie Takes a Long Trip to Reach the N.H.L., New York Times citation
  • , passage=He picked up a roughing penalty for crosschecking Montreal’s Andrei Kostitsyn to the ice Tuesday after Kostitsyn hit Boston defenseman Aaron Ward from behind. }}
  • To re-examine; to double-check.
  • comparison

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
  • :
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}
  • An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each-other.
  • :
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *:As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear comparison with them.
  • *(Richard Chenevix Trench) (1807-1886)
  • *:The miracles of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting points of comparison .
  • *
  • *:"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve."
  • With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
  • :
  • (label) The ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees, as in hot, hotter, hottest .
  • That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
  • *(Bible), (w) iv. 30
  • *:Whereto shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what comparison shall we compare it?
  • (label) A simile.
  • (label) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.