CRISS-CROSS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
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Examples of criss-cross
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Affluent tourists criss -cross the region in comfort on ice-breaking ships.
Since graphs consisting of a criss -cross give rise to separable density matrices, we have the following results.
In the diagonal muscle layer, the muscle bundles run obliquely in comparison with the longitudinal muscle layer and criss -cross each other.
Note that a criss -cross is a tally-mark with two edges.
A younger age (265 + 5 ka) was calculated for the mineral veinlets that criss -cross the lava body only where it is dislocated by a direct fault.
A majority of these vehicles, which criss -cross one another's routes, make the return journey empty.
In the case of psychopaths we come to a point where misconduct and illness criss -cross and are very difficult to extricate from one another.
There are many pipe-lines which criss -cross the country already.
Is not such criss -cross market movement, even perhaps by motorway, completely incompatible with the wishes and the deep desires of the patients?
He was insistent that we should have studs in the roads rather than criss -cross lines.
However, seriously ill patients should not be expected to criss -cross the country in search of treatment.
Many people on either side criss -cross the channel each day to follow their employment.
But if all these criss -cross areas were created, the result would be intolerable confusion.
Officials will be under further pressure, and the fact that the guidelines criss -cross will cause extra difficulties.
I have often been in peril of my life there because drivers criss -cross .
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Translations of criss-cross
in Chinese (Traditional)
（在…上）縱橫交錯，（在…上）交叉運動…
in Chinese (Simplified)
（在…上）纵横交错，（在…上）交叉运动…
in Spanish
cruzar, entrecruzar, atravesar…
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bir çok kez çaprazlama geçmek, çapraz çizgili…
kryds og tværs, krydsogtværs-…
korsmönstrad, kors och tvärs…
пересекать вдоль и поперек…
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