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词汇 crossed
释义 crossed
adjective
uk /krɒst/ us /krɑːst/

crossedadjective (BODY PART)


(of someone's arms, legs, or fingers) in a position where one arm, etc. is placed over the other one:
He just sat at the table with crossed arms and refused to eat.
The children all sit on the floor with legs crossed.
Her legs were crossed at the ankles.
Opposite
uncrossed
 keep/have your fingers crossed(alsofingers are crossed, fingers crossed)
used when you hope very much that something will happen in the way that you want:
We're all keeping our fingers crossed for good weather on the day.
I had my fingers crossed that it would work.
He's injured at the moment but fingers crossed he'll be able to play.
All they could do was wait with their fingers crossed.
She rested her head on her crossed arms.
I smoothed down my skirt over my crossed legs.
You may be able to tell a lot from the couple's body language, for example if their arms are crossed or their legs are crossed away from each other.
He held up his crossed fingers and smiled.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Posture
attitude
bearing
body mechanics
carriage
carry
deportment
orthostatic
pose
position
postural
posture
power pose
power posing
slump
soldierly
strike
strike an attitudeidiom
suck
suck something in

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Hoping and hopefulness
Good luck and bad luck

crossedadjective (WITH LINE/PATH ACROSS)


having a line drawn across it:
The crossed lines inscribed on the object may represent the four points of the compass.
She will make sure the contract has every t crossed and every i dotted (= that it is very careful and completely correct).
having a path, river, bridge, etc. going across it:
The golf course is crossed in three places by streams.
Opposite
uncrossed
See also
get yourwires crossed
The letters included a distinctive symbol: two crossed lines through a circle, resembling the crosshairs of a gun.
They hiked for two hours uphill on a rough dirt track crossed by dozens of streams.
The area is a desert, racked by dust storms and crossed by ancient dry riverbeds.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Describing handwriting & print
asemic
autographic
chicken scratch
crabbed
cursively
handwritten
illegibility
indecipherable
jot
legibility
legible
legibly
non-character
pencilled
scratching
spidery
undecipherable
undeciphered
writing
written

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Crossing and moving through

crossedadjective (MIXED)


 crossed with
bred with a different animal or plant, or combined with a different type of thing, to produce something new:
The dogs are often Siberians or Malamutes crossed with greyhounds.
The bar looks like a coffee shop crossed with a cocktail lounge.
They were the epitome of 1960s cool crossed with classic British style.
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Mixing and mixtures
amalgam
be neither one thing nor the otheridiom
blend
blend in/blend into something
blender
blitz
decoction
emulsion
guaraná
homogeneous mixture
hybridize
methylate
mingle
mosaic
mush
neither
saturated solution
scramble
substance
synthesis

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Variety and mixtures

crossedadjective (CHEQUE)


finance & economics UKspecialized
(of a cheque) having two lines drawn across it to show that it must be paid into a bank account: (支票)划线的
A crossed cheque gives some protection against fraud if it falls into the wrong hands.如果支票落入坏人之手,划线支票可以提供一些保护,防止欺诈。
Opposite
uncrossed
Uncrossed cheques should be crossed immediately to avoid fraud.
A crossed check bears on its face two parallel transverse lines and cannot be presented for cash.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Payment methods
anti-kickback
ATM card
automatic withdrawal
bad cheque
baksheesh
bribe
chip
commission
liquid
meal ticket
monetization
monetize
money-back
monometallic
Monopoly money
payoff
ready money
remittance
severance
wave and pay

Examples of crossed


crossed
Finally, a modification of the last family provides examples of crossed product factors that are not full but for which central sequences are under control.
In this pedigree only 7 dams were crossed with more than 1 sire while 6 sires were mated with more than one dam.
However, the great length of the outer enclosures and the many causeways that crossed them surely precluded their use for defence against determined enemies.
The study of documentary sources reveals the musicians to be highly ambitious participants with associations that crossed many professional and social boundaries.
All photographs were taken dry using crossed polarizing filters to enhance contrast.
For easy reference we refer to these two orientations as 'aligned' or 'crossed'.
This improvisation featured the repetition of a distinctive rhythmic pattern that was based on a patterned movement using both hands diagonally crossed over the congas.
There was little appreciation of the value of creative design output, or of book output that crossed the technology/histor y/theor y divides.
Equally, they are crossed by complex influences, needing to be identified in subjectivities as well as narratives.
The plain, dotted and crossed bars denote protons associated with more, less and least mobilities, respectively.
Follow with the eyes keeping the head still - three times with each hand and three times with the hands together, thumbs crossed.
A skeleton carrying a banner with another skull and crossed bones rides one of the oxen.
The boundaries between these gendered agricultural spaces were at times permeable as men and women crossed over in order to perform very specific tasks.
It seems to be an interesting question to understand the structure of the crossed products in these cases, but we leave it for future work.
When a character crossed the stage holding an umbrella, the sound of raindrops had to be heard.
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