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trouble
English
Etymology
Verb is from Middle English troublen, trublen, turblen, troblen, borrowed from Old French troubler, trobler, trubler, metathetic variants of tourbler, torbler, turbler, from Vulgar Latin *turbul?re, from Latin turbula (“disorderly group, a little crowd or people”), diminutive of turba (“stir; crowd”). The noun is from Middle English truble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tr?b??l; IPA(key): /?t??b(?)l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?t??b(?)l/, /?t??-/
- Rhymes: -?b?l
- Hyphenation: trou?ble
Noun
trouble (countable and uncountable, plural troubles)
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- A violent occurrence or event.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller
- She never took the trouble to close them.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- Indeed, by the report of our elders, this nervous preparation for old age is only trouble thrown away.
- 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller
- A malfunction.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
Usage notes
- Verbs often used with "trouble": make, spell, stir up, ask for, etc.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:difficult situation
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of trouble collocated with these words.
Verb
trouble (third-person singular simple present troubles, present participle troubling, simple past and past participle troubled)
- (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
- What she said about narcissism is troubling me.
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains to do something.
- I won't trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.26:
- Why trouble about the future? It is wholly uncertain.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.26:
Related terms
- turbid
- turbulent
Translations
Further reading
- trouble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- trouble in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- -buterol, Boulter, boulter
French
Etymology 1
Deverbal of troubler or from Old French troble.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?ubl/
Noun
trouble m (plural troubles)
- trouble
- (medicine) disorder
Derived terms
- trouble de la personnalité
- trouble obsessionnel compulsif
Verb
trouble
- first-person singular present indicative of troubler
- third-person singular present indicative of troubler
- first-person singular present subjunctive of troubler
- third-person singular present subjunctive of troubler
- second-person singular imperative of troubler
Etymology 2
From Old French troble, probably from a Vulgar Latin *turbulus (with metathesis), itself perhaps an alteration of Latin turbidus with influence from turbulentus; cf. also turbula. Compare Catalan tèrbol, Romanian tulbure.
Adjective
trouble (plural troubles)
- (of a liquid) murky, turbid, muddy, thick, clouded, cloudy; not clear
Derived terms
- pêcher en eau trouble
Further reading
- “trouble” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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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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