perfil transversal

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: 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.

Example: Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one.

Definition: Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.

Definition: A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).

Example: Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross.

Definition: (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.

Definition: A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.

Example: She made the cross after swearing.

Definition: A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.

Example: She was wearing a cross on her necklace.

Definition: (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.

Example: It's a cross I must bear.

Definition: The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other

Example: A quick cross of the road.

Definition: An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.

Definition: (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.

Definition: A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.

Definition: A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.

Definition: A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).

Definition: A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)

Definition: 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.

Definition: Church lands.

Definition: A line drawn across or through another line.

Definition: An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.

Definition: A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.

Definition: (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.

Definition: The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.

Definition: Crossfire.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To make or form a cross.

Definition: To move relatively.

Definition: (social) To oppose.

Definition: To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.

Example: They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.

Definition: 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.

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Transverse; lying across the main direction.

Example: At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.

Definition: Opposite, opposed to.

Example: His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.

Definition: Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.

Definition: Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.

Example: Please don't get cross at me. (or) Please don't get cross with me.

Definition: Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.

Example: cross interrogatories

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Across

Example: She walked cross the mountains.

Definition: Cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.

Example: The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.

Phonetic: "/ˈsɛkʃən/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.

Definition: A part, piece, subdivision of anything.

Definition: A part of a document.

Definition: An act or instance of cutting.

Definition: A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).

Definition: An incision or the act of making an incision.

Definition: A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.

Definition: A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.

Definition: An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.

Definition: A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.

Definition: A right inverse.

Definition: A piece of residential land; a plot.

Definition: A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.

Definition: Any of the squares, each containing 640 acres, into which the public lands of the United States were divided.

Definition: The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.

Definition: A sequence of rock layers.

Phonetic: "/ˈsɛkʃən/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To cut, divide or separate into pieces.

Definition: To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.

Definition: To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.

Definition: Medical To perform a cesarean section on (someone).