English Dictionary

cross

IPA（発音記号）

/kɹɒs/

形容詞

古語 イギリス英語

Transverse; lying across the main direction. / (archaic) Opposite, opposed to. / (now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.

日本語の意味

主要な方向に対して横切っている、または斜めに配置されている / （古語）反対の、対立する / （現代では稀）望むところに反して、逆の事態や結果になる

The cross beam supported the roof during construction.

その横梁は建設中に屋根を支えた。

意味（1）

Transverse; lying across the main direction.

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

意味（2）

(archaic) Opposite, opposed to.

His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.

意味（3）

(now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.

, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.50: As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences.

意味（4）

(chiefly Britain) Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.

She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job.

意味（5）

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

cross interrogatories

意味（6）

(nautical) 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.

As my father remarked to me when I stole on deck to view the state of affairs, the sea was a cross one, and very difficult to steer against.

crosser （ comparative ）

crossest （ superlative ）