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Definition: Cross-check |
Cross-checkNoun1. An instance of confirming something by considering information from several sources. 2. An illegal check (chopping at an opponent's arms or stick). Verb1. Check out conflicting sources; crosscheck facts, for example. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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| "Cross-check" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Cross-check" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 55.56% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "cross-check"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | kontrolproeve (counter-check). (various references) | |
Dutch | controleproef (counter-check). (various references) | |
French | contre-vérification (cross balance), contre-essai, contrôle par balance carrée, contrôle carré (crosscheck). (various references) | |
German | Kontrollprüfung (counter-check). (various references) | |
Greek | διασταυρώνω (cross, cross-fertilize). (various references) | |
Hungarian | egyeztet (collate, coordinate, to agree, to check, to collate, to conciliate, to harmonize, to tally), bemérés (ranging). (various references) | |
Italian | controprova (cross check). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | クローン病 (close game, Croatia, crocodile, Crohn's disease, cross, cross counter, cross country skiing, cross kick, crossbar, cross-country race, crossed Nichol prism, crossover, cross-stitch, gross, off-road vehicle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | クロスチェック . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oss-checkcray.(various references) | |
Russian | перепроверять по разным источникам. (various references) | |
Spanish | ensayo de comprobación (counter-check). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Cross-check" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cossachok. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: crosscheck. | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-c-e-h-k-o-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: scorches, shockers. | |
-3 letters: chokers, cockers, coshers, hockers, koshers, recocks, shocker, soccers. | |
-4 letters: checks, chocks, choker, chokes, chores, choses, cocker, corses, cosecs, cosher, coshes, crocks, crosse, hocker, horses, kosher, ochers, ochres, ockers, recock, scorch, scores, seccos, shocks, shoers, shores, soccer. | |
-5 letters: ceros, check, chess, chock, choke, chore, chose, cokes, cores, corks, corse, cosec, coses, cress. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-c-e-h-k-o-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: crosschecks. | |
+2 letters: crosschecked. | |
+3 letters: crosschecking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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