different between rotten vs cross
rotten
English
Etymology
From Middle English roten, from Old Norse rotinn (“decayed, rotten”), past participle of an unrecorded verb related to Old Norse rotna (“to rot”) and Old English rotian (“to rot”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rut?n? (“to rot”). More at rot.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /???tn?/, [????n?]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???tn?/
- Rhymes: -?t?n
Adjective
rotten (comparative rottener or more rotten, superlative rottenest or most rotten)
- Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents.
- If you leave a bin unattended for a few weeks, the rubbish inside will turn rotten.
- 1596-99?, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, scene iii:
- Antonio: Mark you this, Bassanio, / The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. / An evil soul producing holy witness / Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, / A goodly apple rotten at the heart. / O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
- In a state of decay.
- The floors were damaged and the walls were rotten.
- His mouth stank and his teeth were rotten.
- Cruel, mean or immoral.
- That man is a rotten father.
- This rotten policy will create more injustice in this country.
- Bad or terrible.
- Why is the weather always rotten in this city?
- It was a rotten idea to take the boat out today.
- She has the flu and feels rotten.
Usage notes
- Nouns to which “rotten” is often applied: wood, food, egg, meat, fruit, tomato, apple, banana, milk, vegetable, stuff, tooth, smell, person, kid, bastard, scoundrel, weather.
Derived terms
Translations
Adverb
rotten (comparative more rotten, superlative most rotten)
- To an extreme degree.
- That kid is spoilt rotten.
- The girls fancy him something rotten.
Anagrams
- Trento, torent
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r?t?(n)/
- Rhymes: -?t?n
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch rotten, reformed from earlier roten, from Old Dutch *roton, from Proto-Germanic *rut?n?.
Verb
rotten
- To rot, to go bad, to decay.
Inflection
Derived terms
- doorrotten
- verrotten
- wegrotten
Etymology 2
Noun
rotten
- Plural form of rot
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r?t?n/, [???t?n], [???tn?]
- Hyphenation: rot?ten
Etymology 1
From Middle High German roten, derived from rote (whence modern Rotte), from Old French rote, from Latin rupta.
Verb
rotten (weak, third-person singular present rottet, past tense rottete, past participle gerottet, auxiliary haben)
- (obsolete) To form into a gang, to rout, to squad.
Conjugation
Derived terms
- zusammenrotten (remains common)
Etymology 2
From Middle High German roten, roden, from Proto-Germanic *rud?n?.
Verb
rotten (weak, third-person singular present rottet, past tense rottete, past participle gerottet, auxiliary haben)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of roden (“to clear woods, to make arable”)
Conjugation
Derived terms
- ausrotten (remains common)
Etymology 3
From Middle Low German rotten, alteration (perhaps intensivation) of older r?ten, from Old Saxon rot?n, from Proto-Germanic *rut?n?.
Verb
rotten (weak, third-person singular present rottet, past tense rottete, past participle gerottet, auxiliary haben)
- To rot, to decay.
Conjugation
Usage notes
- As a simplex chiefly with certain adverbs, like vor sich hin. More common in compounds.
Synonyms
- faulen
- verfaulen
Derived terms
- dahinrotten
- verrotten
Middle English
Verb
rotten
- Alternative form of roten (“to rot”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- rotta f
Noun
rotten m
- definite masculine singular of rotte: rat (rodent)
West Frisian
Noun
rotten
- plural of rôt
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cross
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)
- 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.
- (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
- (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
- (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
- (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
- (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.
- 1641, Ben Jonson, Timber
- The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
- (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
- (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
- 1856, Lord Dufferin, Letters from High Latitudes
- (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
- (soccer) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
- A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
- A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
- (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.
- (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir J. Davies to this entry?)
- A line drawn across or through another line.
- (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
- (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
- (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)
- 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
- (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
- His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.
- (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.
- , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.50:
- 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.
- 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
- (archaic) across
- 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)
- To make or form a cross.
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
- To mark with an X.
- 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’.
- (reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
- (transitive) To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- To move relatively.
- (transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- (intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
- (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.
- November 4, 1866, James David Forbes, letter to E. C. Batten Esq.
- (sports) Relative movement by a player or of players.
- (cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
- (soccer) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- (transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- (social) To oppose.
- (transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- (transitive, obsolete) To interfere and cut off ; to debar.
- (law) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
- (transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
- (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.
- 1924, Commerce Reports (volume 1, issue 13, page 849)
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)
- (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)
- motocross
- cross (boxing punch, tennis shot)
- 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)
- the Holy Cross; Christ's cross.
- A representation of the cross of Christ; the cross as a Christian symbol, including:
- The sign of the cross.
- A crucifix or crosier.
- (figuratively) The cross in Christian metaphors, such as:
- crucifixion
- suffering, penury
- (biblical) Christianity
- The cross as a symbol elsewhere, for example:
- The intersection of drawn lines, especially as a signature.
- (heraldry) A heraldic cross
- 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.
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