Crosswise

Definition: Crosswise

Crosswise

Adjective

1. Lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction; "a crosswise street"; "the crosswise dimension".

2. In the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross.

Adverb

1. Not in the intended manner; "things are going crosswise".

2. Transversely; "the marble slabs were cut across".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crosswise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Synonyms: Crosswise

Crossing

Adverb: cross, thwart, athwart, transversely; at grade; crosswise.

Crosswords: Crosswise

Books

• Fitting in : crosswise at generation gap (reference)

• Marijke van Warmerdam : single, double, crosswise (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Sometimes Crosswise [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Rösle Crosswise Swivel Peeler (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Interior, second floor, west side. Photograph by Jet Lowe, September 1981. (Reproduction Number: HABS, COLO, 42-DOL.V,4A-10) This wooden dairy barn, built in 1918, is the largest outbuilding on the Ritter Ranch, once the most technologically advanced ranch in the Lower Dolores Valley of Colorado. Divided crosswise by a central breezeway on the first floor and lengthwise by two rows of wooden poles supporting the roof, the barn has an airy and peaceful hayloft shown here that contrasts sharply with the complicated machinery of the work area below. The barn featured a metal manure car that ran along a track--just one of the many mechanical devices used at this state-of-the-art farm. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expression using "crosswise": lengthwise and crosswise. Additional references.

Albanian

tërthorazi (in a roundabout way, indirectly, transversally, vicariously), gabimisht (by error, by mistake, erroneously, incorrectly, mistakenly, wrongly). (various references)

Arabic 

‏على نحو مستعرض, ‏على نحو مضاد (counter), ‏بالعرض (athwart, cross-cut). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кръстообразно, напряко, на кръст (across). (various references)

Chinese 

横向 (transverse). (various references)

Czech

křížem (across). (various references)

Dutch

kruiselings (across, crossways). (various references)

Esperanto

transverse. (various references)

Farsi 

چلیپاوار (Crossways), سرتاسر (Across, At, Capapie, Crossways, Hipandthigh, Overall, Through), ازپهنا (Crossways), ازوسط (Across, Athwart, Crossways, Per, Through), بشکل صلیب (Crossways). (various references)

Finnish

ristikkäin (across), ristiin, poikittainen (transverse), poikittain (across, transversely). (various references)

French

en traverse, en diagonale, en croix, direction de la largeur. (various references)

German

quergerichtet, quer (across, askance, aslant, athwart, beyond, cross, crossways, diagonally, on the other side of), kreuzweise (crossways), kreuzförmig (cross-shaped, crossways, cruciform), überkreuz. (various references)

Greek 

σταυροειδώσ (crisscross), σταυροειδήσ (crucial, cruciform), χιαστί (shoulder), διαγωνίωσ (at an angle). (various references)

Hebrew 

מצטלב (askew, crossed), לוכסן (diagonally, slash), אלכסו� ית (diagonally, obliquely). (various references)

Hungarian

haránt (athwart, cross, thwart, thwart-ship). (various references)

Indonesian

silang (intersecting), alang (crossbeam, diagonal, medium, middle). (various references)

Italian

attraverso (across, athwart, beyond, by, on the other side of, over, through, via), a forma di croce. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

横に (across, crossways, horizontally, sideways), 十文字に , 十字に . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

よ�"に (across, crossways, horizontally, sideways), じゅうも�"じに, じゅうじに. (various references)

Korean 

십자로. (various references)

Manx

tessenagh (diagonally, passable, transversal, transversely). (various references)

Pig Latin

osswisecray

Portuguese

transversalmente (across, breadthways, crossways, transversely). (various references)

Romanian

curmeziş (across, aslant, traversely), cruciş (across, aslant, crossing, hostile, slantwise, squint, squinting), transversal (across, Broadways, cross, cross-cut, slanting, transversal, transversally, transverse, transversely, traverse). (various references)

Russian 

крестообразно, крест на крест (criss cross), накрест. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

unakrst (across). (various references)

Spanish

sabio de todo. (various references)

Swedish

på tvären (across, athwart). (various references)

Turkish

enine (breadthwise, crosscut, in the beam, in width, transversal, transverse), aykırı (anomalous, anti-, antithetic, antithetical, athwart, contradictious, contradictory, counter, crossways, gainst, heterodox, impolitic, incongruous, inconsistent, repugnant, thwart, transverse), çaprazlama (athwart, cross, crossways, decussate, diagonally, on the cross), çapraz (across, bias, cornerwise, crisscross, cross, crossways, decussate, diagonal, groined, lattice, slantways, slantwise, thwart, transversal, transverse, traverse). (various references)

Ukrainian

упоперек (across, aslant, athwart, broadwise, transversely), хрестоподібно, хрест-навхрест, неправильно (abnormally, awry, improperly, incorrectly, out-of-truth, unduly, wrong), помилково (by mistake, mistakenly, wrong, wrongly). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chéo chữ thập theo hình chữ thập, chéo (oblique). (various references)

Misspellings

"Crosswise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kruszwica. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: cowries, crosses, escrows, scissor, seisors.

-3 letters: corses, cosier, cosies, cowers, cowier, cowrie, crises, crosse, escrow, osiers, resows, scores, screws, scries, seisor, serows, sowers, wisses, worses.

-4 letters: ceros, cires, coirs, cores, corse, coses, cosie, cower, cress, crews, cries, cross, crows, osier, resow, rices, rises, roses, score, scows, screw, serow, sices, sires, sises, sores, sower.

+2 letters: cassowaries.

+5 letters: cowardlinesses.