to crisscross
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3.7
- verb
- /ˈkrɪsˌkrɔs/
:
recorrer
- Have you noticed those white trails crisscrossing in the sky?
- crisscross the country
- crisscross national borders
The thing is, how well can you predict when things are going to crisscross each other?
- The thing is, how well can you predict when things are going to crisscross each other?
- trips from New York to Los Angeles and where he crisscrossed the country and just took photographs.
- Well, what they found in my brain is that, you know, our optic fields crisscross.
- And it's just not being distracted by the past that crisscross yours, he says, even from people who are hopelessly lost.
- He says tranquillity is the sense of the path that you were on and not being distracted by the paths that crisscross yours.
- This is not being distracted by the paths that crisscross yours says, especially the paths of those who are lost.
Examples
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By the end of the 1920s, 23 million automobiles were crisscrossing America on 830,000 miles of paved highways.
Academic text (2005) -
During her road trip, she decided to crisscross the state, visiting multiple cities along the way.
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Every presidential candidate is expected to crisscross this vast country in pursuit of votes.
Academic text (1997) -
A network of fine roads and highways crisscross Murlug, which has become quite an industrial world.
Fiction book (1991) -
Since arriving in Iraq, de Mello has crisscrossed the nation, listening to ordinary citizens, many of whom are out of work and increasingly desperate.
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Hundreds of forklifts and cargo-pullers dart about, their headlights crisscrossing like a laser show.
Fiction book (2000) -
Off-road vehicles now crisscross the island, damaging sensitive coastal ecosystems, riparian zones, and streambeds.
Academic text (2004) -
The children love to crisscross the backyard as they play tag, running in various directions.
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As the birds crisscross the sky, their patterns create a beautiful dance above the landscape.
Synonyms
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6.5
Lines or paths that cross each other at points
How Back-and-Forth
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Crisscross can also mean to move back and forth, because criss plus cross both mean 'cross' and the double form suggests crossing again and again. That is why to crisscross a place is to travel across it in many directions.