cover vs cross

cover

verb
  • To traverse or put behind a certain distance. 

  • To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist). 

  • To defend (mark) a particular player or area. 

  • To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of. 

  • To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal. 

  • To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal. 

  • To provide insurance coverage for. 

  • To act as a replacement. 

  • To deal with or include someone or something. 

  • To be enough money for. 

  • To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself). 

  • To have as an assignment or responsibility. 

  • To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm. 

  • To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect. 

  • To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect. 

  • To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area. 

  • To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses). 

  • To protect or control (a piece or square). 

noun
  • The top sheet of a bed. 

  • A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story. 

  • The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc. 

  • A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used. 

  • A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set. 

  • Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view. 

  • An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc. 

  • A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire. 

  • The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above. 

  • An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract. 

  • A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner. 

  • A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song. 

  • The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete. 

  • A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position. 

  • A cover charge. 

  • In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve. 

  • A lid. 

  • In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for. 

adj
  • Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions. 

  • Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine. 

cross

verb
  • To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another. 

  • Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs. 

  • To go from one side of (something) to the other. 

  • To make the sign of the cross over oneself. 

  • To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness. 

  • To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ 

  • To cross-fertilize or crossbreed. 

  • To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of. 

  • To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. 

  • 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. 

  • To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect. 

  • To mark with an X. 

  • To score a try. 

  • To lay or draw something across, such as a line. 

  • To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone). 

  • To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side. 

adj
  • Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed. 

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

  • Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting. 

  • Transverse; lying across the main direction. 

prep
  • cross product of the previous vector and the following vector. 

noun
  • A difficult situation that must be endured. 

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

  • A hybrid of any kind. 

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

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

  • 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. 

  • Usually with the: the cross on which Christ was crucified. 

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

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

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

  • The thirty-sixth Lenormand card. 

  • A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross. 

  • Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross. 

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

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

  • A hook thrown over the opponent's punch. 

  • A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal. 

  • crossfire. 

  • An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization. 

  • A line drawn across or through another line. 

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