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criss-cross

verb
🔊/ˈkrɪs krɒs/
🔊/ˈkrɪs krɔːs/
[transitive, intransitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they criss-cross
🔊/ˈkrɪs krɒs/
🔊/ˈkrɪs krɔːs/
he / she / it criss-crosses
🔊/ˈkrɪs krɒsɪz/
🔊/ˈkrɪs krɔːsɪz/
past simple criss-crossed
🔊/ˈkrɪs krɒst/
🔊/ˈkrɪs krɔːst/
past participle criss-crossed
🔊/ˈkrɪs krɒst/
🔊/ˈkrɪs krɔːst/
-ing form criss-crossing
🔊/ˈkrɪs krɒsɪŋ/
🔊/ˈkrɪs krɔːsɪŋ/
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  1. to make a pattern on something with many straight lines that cross each other构成十字形（或交叉）图案
    • criss-cross (something) Searchlights were criss-crossing the sky.探照灯纵横交错。
    • The smaller streets criss-cross in a grid pattern.较小的街道纵横交错，呈网格状。
    • be criss-crossed with something The city is criss-crossed with canals.这座城市里运河纵横交错。🔊🔊
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    Word Originearly 17th cent. (denoting a figure of a cross preceding the alphabet in a hornbook, an old fashioned teaching aid): from Christ-cross (in the same sense in late Middle English), from Christ's cross. The form was later treated as a reduplication of cross.

criss-cross

noun
🔊/ˈkrɪs krɒs/
🔊/ˈkrɪs krɔːs/
[singular]
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  1. a pattern of many straight lines that cross each other十字交叉的；纵横交错的
    • a criss-cross of streets纵横交错的街道

criss-cross

adjective
🔊/ˈkrɪs krɒs/
🔊/ˈkrɪs krɔːs/
[usually before noun]
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  1. with many straight lines that cross each other十字交叉的；纵横交错的
    • a criss-cross pattern十字形图案
    Word Originearly 17th cent. (denoting a figure of a cross preceding the alphabet in a hornbook, an old fashioned teaching aid): from Christ-cross (in the same sense in late Middle English), from Christ's cross. The form was later treated as a reduplication of cross.