different between inferior vs cross

English

Alternative forms

• inferiour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?nferior (“lower in situation or place”), comparative of ?nferus (“below, underneath”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?nfîr??r
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?f??.?i.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?f??.i.?/
• Rhymes: -???i?(?)

Adjective

inferior (comparative more inferior, superlative most inferior)

1. Lower in rank, status, or quality.
   1. Of low rank, standard or quality.

   2. (law) (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
   3. (economics) Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
2. Located below:
   1. (anatomy) Situated below another and especially another similar superior part of an upright body.
   2. (zoology) Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
   3. (botany) Situated below some other organ; said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx.
   4. (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.

      Synonym: anterior

   5. (typography) Printed in subscript.

   6. (astronomy) Below the horizon.

3. (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.

Usage notes

Inferior and superior are generally followed by to; than is seen sometimes, but is viewed as wrong.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:bad

Antonyms

• superior

Coordinate terms

• (dentistry location adjectives) anterior,? apical,? apicocoronal,? axial,? buccal,? buccoapical,? buccocervical,? buccogingival,? buccolabial,? buccolingual,? bucco-occlusal,? buccopalatal,? cervical,? coronal,? coronoapical,? distal,? distoapical,? distobuccal,? distocervical,? distocoronal,? distofacial,? distogingival,? distoincisal,? distolingual,? disto-occlusal,? distoclusal,? distocclusal,? distopalatal,? facial,? gingival,? incisal,? incisocervical,? inferior,? labial,? lingual,? linguobuccal,? linguo-occlusal,? mandibular,? maxillary,? mesial,? mesioapical,? mesiobuccal,? mesiocervical,? mesiocoronal,? mesiodistal,? mesiofacial,? mesioincisal,? mesiogingival,? mesiolingual,? mesio-occlusal,? mesioclusal,? mesiocclusal,? mesiopalatal,? occlusal,? palatal,? posterior,? proximal,? superior,? vestibular ^{(Category: en:Dentistry) [edit]}

Derived terms

Related terms

• Armenia Inferior
• limit inferior

Translations

Noun

inferior (plural inferiors)

1. A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another.

   Antonym: superior

2. (printing) An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.

Translations

References

• “inferior”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “inferior”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• inferior in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• inferior at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• fire iron, fireiron

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ?nferior.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /im.f?.?i?o/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /im.fe.?i?o?/

Adjective

inferior (masculine and feminine plural inferiors)

1. inferior
2. lower

Related terms

• inferioritat

Further reading

• “inferior” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “inferior” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “inferior” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “inferior” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?nferior (“lower, inferior”), the comparative of ?nferus (“low, nether, underground”).

Adjective

inferior (not comparable)

1. subordinate, secondary
2. (of people) inferior

3. substandard, bad

Declension

Further reading

• “inferior” in Duden online

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in?fe.ri.or/, [???f??i?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in?fe.ri.or/, [in?f???i?r]

Adjective

?nferior (neuter ?nferius, positive ?nferus); third declension

1. comparative degree of ?nferus, lower in situation or place:
   1. Subsequent, later, latter in time or succession.
   2. Inferior in quality, rank, or number.

Inflection

Third-declension comparative adjective.

Related terms

• infimus (superlative)

Descendants

References

• inferior in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inferior in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inferior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ?nferior.

Pronunciation

Adjective

inferior m (feminine singular inferiora, masculine plural inferiors, feminine plural inferioras)

1. inferior
2. lower

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin inferior.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?.f???jo?/
• Hyphenation: in?fe?ri?or

Adjective

inferior m or f (plural inferiores, comparable)

1. inferior

   Antonym: superior

Romanian

Etymology

From French inférieur, from Latin inferior.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?in.fe.ri?or/

Adjective

inferior m or n (feminine singular inferioar?, masculine plural inferiori, feminine and neuter plural inferioare)

1. inferior

Declension

Antonyms

• superior

Related terms

• inferioritate

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin inferior.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /infe??jo?/, [??.fe??jo?]
• Hyphenation: in?fe?rior

Adjective

inferior (plural inferiores)

1. inferior (of lower quality)
2. inferior (of lower rank)
3. inferior (below)

Antonyms

• superior

Derived terms

Related terms

• inferioridad

Further reading

• “inferior” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• Cross (sometimes for the historical cross of Christ)

Etymology

From Middle English cross, cros, from Old English cros (“rood, cross”), from Old Norse kross (“cross”), perhaps from Old Irish cros (compare Welsh croes, Irish crois), from Latin crux (cruci). Cognate with Icelandic kross (“cross”), Faroese krossur (“cross”), Danish kors (“cross”), Swedish kors (“cross”). Displaced native Middle English rood (“rood, cross”), from Old English r?d (“cross, rood, crucifix, pole”); see rood.The sense of "two intersecting lines drawn or cut on a surface; two lines intersecting at right angles" without regard to religious signification develops from the late 14th century.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??s/, (especially formerly) /k???s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??s/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /k??s/
• Rhymes: -?s, -??s

Noun

cross (plural crosses)

1. A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.

2. (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
3. A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).

4. (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
5. (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
6. (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.

7. (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
   • 1641, Ben Jonson, Timber

     Heaven prepares good men with crosses.

8. The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other

9. (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
10. (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
    • 1856, Lord Dufferin, Letters from High Latitudes

      Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler

11. (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
12. (soccer) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
13. A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
14. A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
15. (obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.
16. (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.

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17. A line drawn across or through another line.
18. (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
19. A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
20. (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
21. (cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
22. (slang) crossfire.

Synonyms

• (production of cross-breeding or -fertilization): hybrid
• (cross on which Christ was crucified): True Cross

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (kurosu)

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

cross (comparative crosser, superlative crossest)

1. Transverse; lying across the main direction.

   At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.

   • the cross refraction of the second prism

2. (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.

   His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.

3. (now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
   • , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.50:

     As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences.

   • c. 1650, Jeremy Taylor, Of Contentedness

     a cross fortune

   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica

     the cross and unlucky issue of my designs

   • 1694, Robert South, Christianity Mysterious, and the Wisdom of God in Making it So (sermon preached at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 1694)

     The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvellously cross to the common experience of mankind.
4. Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.

   She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job.

   Please don't get cross at me. (or) Please don't get cross with me.

   • 1650/1651, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     He had received a cross answer from his mistress.

5. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.

   cross interrogatories

   cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other

Synonyms

• (opposite to): contrarily, opposed, reverse, antipodal
• (mildly angry): angry, annoyed, irritated

Derived terms

Translations

Preposition

cross

1. (archaic) across
2. cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.

Related terms

• dot
• × (the multiplication sign)

Translations

Verb

cross (third-person singular simple present crosses, present participle crossing, simple past and past participle crossed)

1. To make or form a cross.
   1. To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.

   2. To lay or draw something across, such as a line.

   3. To mark with an X.

   4. To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.^W

      • An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

   5. (reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
   6. (transitive) To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
2. To move relatively.
   1. (transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
   2. (intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.

   3. (transitive) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
      • November 4, 1866, James David Forbes, letter to E. C. Batten Esq.

        Your kind letter crossed mine.

   4. (sports) Relative movement by a player or of players.
      1. (cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
      2. (soccer) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.

      3. (rugby) To score a try.
3. (social) To oppose.
   1. (transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.

   2. (transitive, obsolete) To interfere and cut off ; to debar.
   3. (law) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
4. (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.

5. (transitive) To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
   • 1924, Commerce Reports (volume 1, issue 13, page 849)

     The English practice of crossing checks so that payment may be made to the bank account or to order is prevalent.

Synonyms

• (to cross-fertilize or crossbreed): cross-fertilize, crossbreed

Hyponyms

• crisscross

Derived terms

• becross
• crossing
• crossover
• crossword

Related terms

Translations

French

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??s/

Noun

cross m (uncountable)

1. (sports) cross-country

Further reading

• “cross” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From English.

Noun

cross m (invariable)

1. motocross
2. cross (boxing punch, tennis shot)
3. slice (golf shot)

Derived terms

• crossista

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cros, croz, crosse, crosce

Etymology

From Old English cros, borrowed from Old Norse kross, borrowed from Old Irish cros, borrowed from Latin crux.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kr?s/

Noun

cross (plural crosses)

1. the Holy Cross; Christ's cross.
2. A representation of the cross of Christ; the cross as a Christian symbol, including:
   1. The sign of the cross.
   2. A crucifix or crosier.
   3. (figuratively) The cross in Christian metaphors, such as:
      1. crucifixion
      2. suffering, penury
      3. (biblical) Christianity
3. The cross as a symbol elsewhere, for example:
   1. The intersection of drawn lines, especially as a signature.
   2. (heraldry) A heraldic cross
4. gallows, gibbet

Descendants

• English: cross
  • ? Japanese: ??? (kurosu)
• Scots: cross, cros
• Yola: cress

References

• “cros, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.