单词 | criss-cross |
释义 | criss-cross/ˈkrɪskrɒs /noun A pattern of intersecting straight lines or paths: the blotting paper was marked with a criss-cross of different inks...
adjective Containing a number of straight lines or paths which intersect each other: the streets ran in a regular criss-cross pattern [as adverb]: the swords were strung criss-cross on his back...
verb [with object] 1Form a pattern of intersecting lines or paths on (a place): the green hill was criss-crossed with a network of sheep tracks [no object]: the smaller streets criss-crossed in a grid pattern...
1.1Move or travel around (a place) by going back and forth repeatedly: the President criss-crossed America...
OriginEarly 17th century (denoting a figure of a cross preceding the alphabet in a hornbook): from Christ-cross (in the same sense in late Middle English), from Christ's cross. The form was later treated as a reduplication of cross. |
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