Cross-

"Cross-" in a Sentence (17 examples)

e.g. crossbody, crossbuck, cross-stitch

e.g. crossbedding, crossband, crossmember

. See visuals for difference between crossband and crossbuck.

e.g. crossfield, cross-city. When used for a rectangular space, this movement is typically diagonal, such as in crossbelt and crosscourt.

e.g. crossfeed as the process of blending the left and right channels of a stereo recording, crossfader, cross-link

e.g. crosstown, cross-cousin, cross-ratio

e.g. crossflow, cross-beat, cross-vote

e.g. cross-passage, cross-tunnel, crossfire

e.g. crosslingual, cross-browser, crossfunctional, cross-cultural

e.g. crossbreak, crosspost, crosscurrent

The room was a cross-mixture of voices. "Come in Kelly 4.[…]" "Come in Stanhope.[…]" "Evans 9. Confirm.[…]"

e.g. crossdate, crossvalidated, crosscovariance

e.g. crossbreed, cross-pollinate, crosslinear

e.g. crosstalk, crossrepression, crosscalibration, cross-progress

e.g. crossregulation, crossfeed, crossprotection

To crossfeed as to supply one fuel tank of an aircraft with fuel from another. To crossregulate is when one metabolic pathway is regulated by the enzymes in another pathway. These are one-way influences, whereas the previous sense of mutuality has symmetric two-way influences; e.g. crossrepression is mutual repression of interacting systems.

e.g. cross-tune, cross-birth, cross-live

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.