Crosscheck vs Confirm - What's the difference?
crosscheck | confirm |
(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.
(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
, 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.
To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
(Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 35:
To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
As verbs the difference between crosscheck and confirm
is that crosscheck is (lacrosse) to hit another player with the shaft of a lacrosse stick while confirm is to strengthen; to make firm or resolute.As a noun crosscheck
is (ice hockey) a penalty.crosscheck
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* confirme (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, was baptized and confirmed at the age of three days.
