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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crisscross
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ They spent a year crisscrossing the country by bus.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And all of them trained in the same swamps crisscrossed by cocaine cowboys.
▪ But the upper mantle, which is crisscrossed by both surface and body waves, is far better understood.
▪ Cut in margarine, using pastry blender or crisscrossing two knives, until mixture resembles fine crumbs.
▪ Global information distribution networks represent the infrastructure crisscrossing countries and continents.
▪ The ice on the river was smooth and transparent, not crisscrossed with the white etchings of skaters' tracks.
▪ The parcel was substantial, tightly wrapped in brown paper, crisscrossed by waxed brown twine with many knots.
▪ The river ice was crisscrossed with cracks, and we heard occasional booming as new cracks were made.
▪ There are no high-powered radio or television stations, and only a few electric-power transmission lines crisscross the rugged landscape.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crisscross

Crisscross \Criss"cross`\, v. t. To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks.

Crisscross

Crisscross \Criss"cross`\ (kr?s"kr?s`; 115), n. [A corruption of Christcross.]

  1. A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.

  2. A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.

Crisscross

Crisscross \Criss"cross`\ (kr?s"kr?s`;115), adv.

  1. In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways.

    Logs and tree luing crisscross in utter confusion.
    --W. E. Boardman.

  2. With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
crisscross

1818, from Middle English crist(s)-crosse "Christ's cross" (late 15c.), earlier cros-kryst (late 14c.), "referring to the mark of a cross formerly written before the alphabet in hornbooks. The mark itself stood for the phrase Christ-cross me speed ('May Christ's cross give me success'), a formula said before reciting the alphabet" [Barnhart]. Used today without awareness of origin. As an adjective, 1846; as a noun, 1848.

Wiktionary
crisscross

  1. marked with crossed lines adv. crossing one another n. 1 A pattern of crossed lines. 2 A mark or cross, such as the signature of a person who is unable to write. 3 A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross. v

  2. 1 To move back and forth (over something.) 2 To mark something with crossed lines.

WordNet
crisscross

adj. marked with crossing lines [syn: crisscrossed]

crisscross

  1. n. marking consisting of crossing lines [syn: cross, mark]

  2. adv. crossing one another in opposite directions

  3. v. cross in a pattern, often random

  4. mark with or consist of a pattern of crossed lines; "wrinkles crisscrossed her face"

  5. mark with a pattern of crossing lines; "crisscross the sheet of paper"

Wikipedia
CrissCross

CrissCross is a 1992 American drama film directed by Chris Menges and written by Scott Sommer, based on his homonymous novel. It stars Goldie Hawn, Arliss Howard, Keith Carradine, Steve Buscemi, and David Arnott.

Crisscross (novel)

Crisscross is the eighth volume in a series of Repairman Jack books written by American author F. Paul Wilson. The book was first published by Gauntlet Press in a signed limited first edition (May 2004) then later as a trade hardcover from Forge (October 2004) and a mass market paperback from Forge (June 2006).

Category:2004 American novels Category:Repairman Jack (series)

Usage examples of "crisscross".

Squadrons of combat Remoras crisscrossed the sky, dropping incendiary bombs primarily in unoccupied areas, though a few struck warehouses and governmental buildings.

By the end of the day, the sand is crisscrossed with a mesh of ordinates, abscissas, curves to account for everything in nature.

Tom was trying to peer through the crisscrossed aisleways which were formed by the hundreds of big trees.

The little room was hung all about with locust twigs, for their sweet scent, and was furnished only with a charcoal brazier and a charpai, which is a crude bed made of a wooden frame laced crisscross with ropes.

They sat down by an old spikka, its trunk crisscrossed with knife cuts.

Men yelled and screamed, explosions went off, and the hallways were crisscrossed in automatic weapons fire.

Lexie watched as she retrieved the boots, pulled them on and expertly crisscrossed the rawhide laces from ankles to boot-tops and fastened them tightly.

Resentment flared in her eyes as she crisscrossed the rawhide strips from ankle to the top of the boot.

Scars crisscrossed the faces and sparse tufts of ginger hair could be seen on the otherwise bald heads.

Lights flared, crisscrossed, catching the mask in a web of stark white beams.

Eisenhart of the Rocking B even brought his rifle and wore crisscrossed ammunition bandoliers.

They flew, screaming, crisscrossed in midair, and both found their mark.

Sisko yanked the ship into a fierce upward zigzag as two sets of phaser beams crisscrossed the place they would have been in another second.

Dozens of them crisscrossed her arms, striping her dusty feet, and spotting her face like chalk marks.

An interior designer crisscrossed the floor and walls with beige-and-raspberry tiles, put in a French bakery, and sold vendor permits to hawkers with cute green carts filled with ties, fudge, and sun hats, as well as toys to bring home to the kiddies.