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Definition: Crosse |
CrosseNoun1. A long racket with a triangular frame; used in playing lacrosse. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crosse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Crosse \Crosse\, noun. [French expression, crosier, hooked stick.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Crosse |
| Specialty definitions using "crosse": Hurrah' ♦ Science Persecuted. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "crosse": Lacrosse. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Crosse" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (butt, croisier, crook, handle, hilt, lacrosse stick, leg, staff, stick). |
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 | Also known as Aedes triseriatus, and commonly known as the "treehole mosquito", this species has been identified in mosquito pools reported as positive for the West Nile Virus, and is also a know vector for the La Crosse virus. Credit: CDC. |  | Saint Francis Hospital, La Crosse, WI. : General view- School of Nursing. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Locomotive "Wm. Crooks." Great Northern Railway's "One Spot". Having come to St. Paul in 1861 by barge from La Crosse, Wis. ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Street in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mississippi River at La Crosse, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bridge across Mississippi River, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Menu outside restaurant, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | La Crosse, Wisconsin (vicinity). Dairy farm. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Panoramic view of La Crosse, Minnesota [sic]. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | La Crosse, Ind., 1915. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | La Crosse (LAC) encephalitis was discovered in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1963. Since then, the virus has been identified in several Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic states. (references) | |
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| "Crosse" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Crosse" is used about 4 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 |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "crosse": La Crosse ♦ La Crosse County ♦ La Crosse Virus. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "crosse": Poulteney-crosse. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
la crosse wi | 1,037 | clay crosse | 48 |
crosse | 970 | three crosse | 46 |
crosse three wooden | 440 | celtic crosse tattoo | 38 |
crosse tattoo | 434 | crosse picture tattoo | 36 |
crosse la tribune | 290 | la crosse hotel | 34 |
celtic crosse | 280 | la crosse weather | 34 |
crosse picture | 256 | crosse drawing | 33 |
la crosse | 127 | crosse pic | 30 |
crosse lyrics three wooden | 112 | uw la crosse | 29 |
diamond crosse | 104 | crosse liris | 29 |
christian crosse | 92 | art clip crosse | 28 |
university of wisconsin la crosse | 85 | celtic crosse picture | 28 |
religious crosse | 77 | gold crosse | 27 |
la crosse technology | 76 | silver crosse | 27 |
crosse lyrics randy three travis wooden | 74 | wall crosse | 26 |
3 crosse wooden | 72 | crosse design tattoo | 26 |
crosse randy three travis wooden | 70 | clipart crosse | 25 |
la crosse wisconsin | 65 | crosse type | 25 |
crosse la logger | 65 | wooden crosse | 23 |
crosse gothic | 48 | catholic crosse | 23 |
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| Language | Translations for "crosse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Manx | croshag (Sign of the Cross). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ossecray | ||||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 15, Verse 30 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Swson seauton kai kataba apo tou staurou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Salvum fac temet ipsum descendens de cruce |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ge-hæl þe sylfne of þare rode stigende. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Come adoun fro the crosse, and make thi silf saaf. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Save thy sylfe and come doune from the crosse. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Save thyself, and come down from the cross. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Save thyself, and come down from the cross. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Keep yourself from death, and come down from the cross. |
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| Language | Mark Chapter 15, Verse 30 |
| Cebuano | luwasa ang imong kaugalingon ug kanaug sa krus!" |
| Chinese | 可 以 救 自 己 從 十 字 架 上 下 來 罷 。 |
| Croatian | spasi sam sebe, siði s križa!" |
| Danish | frels dig selv ved at stige ned af Korset!" |
| Dutch | Behoud Uzelven, en kom af van het kruis. |
| Finnish | Samoin ylipapitkin ynnä kirjanoppineet keskenään pilkkasivat häntä ja sanoivat: "Muita hän on auttanut, itseään ei voi auttaa. |
| French | sauve-toi toi-même, en descendant de la croix! |
| Gaelic | Teasraig thu fhein agus thig a nuas bhon chrois. |
| German | Hilf dir nun selber und steig herab vom Kreuz! |
| Haitian Creole | sove tèt ou non, desann sou kwa a. |
| Hungarian | Szabadítsd meg magadat, és szállj le a keresztrõl! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Coba turun dari salib itu dan selamatkan diri-Mu!" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Coba selamatkan diri-Mu sendiri, dan turunlah dari kayu salib itu!" |
| Italian | salva te stesso scendendo dalla croce!». |
| Latvian | Nokâpdams no krusta, glâb pats sevi! |
| Maori | Whakaora i a koe ano ka heke iho i te ripeka. |
| Norwegian | frels dig selv og stig ned av korset! |
| Portuguese | salva-te a ti mesmo, descendo da cruz. |
| Rumanian | mkntuiewte-Te pe Tine knsuyi, wi pogoarq-Te de pe cruce!`` |
| Russian | У БУЙ уЕ'С уБНПЗП Й УПК"Й УП ЛТЕУФБ. |
| Shuar | Amek Krúsnumia akaikim uwemprata." |
| Spanish | ¡sálvate a ti mismo y desciende de la cruz! |
| Swahili | Sasa, shuka msalabani ujiokoe mwenyewe!" |
| Swedish | Hjälp dig nu själv, och stig ned från korset." |
| Uma | Ane wae-di, tulungi moto-mi woto-nu! Mana'u-moko ngkai kaju parika' tetu!" |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crosse": crossed, crosser, crossers, crosses, crossest. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "crosse": lacrosse. (additional references) | |
Words containing "crosse": autocrosses, backcrossed, backcrosses, crisscrossed, crisscrosses, incrossed, incrosses, intercrossed, intercrosses, lacrosses, motocrosses, outcrossed, outcrosses, recrossed, recrosses, testcrossed, testcrosses, topcrosses, uncrossed, uncrosses. (additional references) | |
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"Crosse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Carozzi, Coosje, Cosse, Cossec, Cressa, Cresse, Crissie, Croeso, Cropsey, crosa, crose, Crosen, Crossen, Crossey, Crosson, Crousse, Croze, Cryospec, Kroeske. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "osse": Osse. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: corses, scores. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-o-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: ceros, cores, corse, coses, cress, cross, roses, score, sores. | |
-2 letters: cero, cess, core, cors, coss, eros, orcs, ores, oses, recs, rocs, roes, rose, secs, sers, sore. | |
-3 letters: cor, cos, ers, ess, oes, orc, ore, ors, ose, rec, res, roc, roe, sec, ser, sos. | |
-4 letters: er, es, oe, or, os, re, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-o-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: censors, closers, corpses, corsets, coshers, costers, courses, cresols, crossed, crosser, crosses, escorts, escrows, frescos, process, recross, roscoes, scorers, scoters, sectors, soccers, sources, sucrose. | |
+2 letters: bescours, borsches, carouses, choosers, choruses, chousers, closures, coarsens, coarsest, coasters, colessor, compress, congress, cordless, coreless, cornuses, corpuses, corsages, corslets, costrels, coursers, creosols, crocuses, cropless, crosiers, crossers, crossest, crosslet, crosstie, crustose, escolars, focusers, frescoes, lacrosse, narcoses, necroses, necrosis, obscures, orchises, prosects, rescores, restocks, rockless, scariose, scherzos, sclerose, sclerous, scoffers, scolders, scoopers, scooters, scorches, scorners, scourers, scourges, scouters, scowders, scowlers, scrooges, scrouges, shockers, socagers, solacers, soroches, stockers, sucroses. | |
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