'Cross fire' definitions:
Definition of 'Cross fire'
From: GCIDE
- Cross \Cross\ (kr[o^]s), a.
- 1. Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting. [1913 Webster]
- The cross refraction of the second prism. --Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse. "A cross fortune." --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- The cross and unlucky issue of my design. --Glanvill. [1913 Webster]
- The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvelously cross to the common experience of mankind. --South. [1913 Webster]
- We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross, One must be happy by the other's loss. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman. [1913 Webster]
- He had received a cross answer from his mistress. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other. [1913 Webster]
- Cross action (Law), an action brought by a party who is sued against the person who has sued him, upon the same subject matter, as upon the same contract. --Burrill.
- Cross aisle (Arch.), a transept; the lateral divisions of a cruciform church.
- Cross axle. (a) (Mach.) A shaft, windlass, or roller, worked by levers at opposite ends, as in the copperplate printing press. (b) A driving axle, with cranks set at an angle of 90[deg] with each other.
- Cross bedding (Geol.), oblique lamination of horizontal beds.
- Cross bill. See in the Vocabulary.
- Cross bitt. Same as Crosspiece.
- Cross bond, a form of bricklaying, in which the joints of one stretcher course come midway between those of the stretcher courses above and below, a course of headers and stretchers intervening. See Bond, n., 8.
- Cross breed. See in the Vocabulary.
- Cross breeding. See under Breeding.
- Cross buttock, a particular throw in wrestling; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse. --Smollet.
- Cross country, across the country; not by the road. "The cross-country ride." --Cowper.
- Cross fertilization, the fertilization of the female products of one physiological individual by the male products of another, -- as the fertilization of the ovules of one plant by pollen from another. See Fertilization.
- Cross file, a double convex file, used in dressing out the arms or crosses of fine wheels.
- Cross fire (Mil.), lines of fire, from two or more points or places, crossing each other.
- Cross forked. (Her.) See under Forked.
- Cross frog. See under Frog.
- Cross furrow, a furrow or trench cut across other furrows to receive the water running in them and conduct it to the side of the field.
- Cross handle, a handle attached transversely to the axis of a tool, as in the augur. --Knight.
- Cross lode (Mining), a vein intersecting the true or principal lode.
- Cross purpose. See Cross-purpose, in the Vocabulary.
- Cross reference, a reference made from one part of a book or register to another part, where the same or an allied subject is treated of.
- Cross sea (Naut.), a chopping sea, in which the waves run in contrary directions.
- Cross stroke, a line or stroke across something, as across the letter t.
- Cross wind, a side wind; an unfavorable wind.
- Cross wires, fine wires made to traverse the field of view in a telescope, and moved by a screw with a graduated head, used for delicate astronomical observations; spider lines. Fixed cross wires are also used in microscopes, etc.
- Syn: Fretful; peevish. See Fretful. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cross fire'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alternation,
- antiaircraft fire,
- battledore and shuttlecock,
- commutation,
- cooperation,
- counterchange,
- curtain fire,
- direct fire,
- dry fire,
- exchange,
- file fire,
- fire,
- fire of demolition,
- firepower,
- fireworks,
- firing,
- flack,
- flak,
- give-and-take,
- ground fire,
- gunfight,
- gunfire,
- gunplay,
- high-angle fire,
- horizontal fire,
- interchange,
- interdiction fire,
- intermutation,
- interplay,
- lex talionis,
- machine-gun fire,
- measure for measure,
- mortar fire,
- musketry,
- mutual admiration,
- mutual support,
- mutual transfer,
- mutuality,
- percussion fire,
- permutation,
- pistol fire,
- quid pro quo,
- raking fire,
- rapid fire,
- reciprocality,
- reciprocation,
- reciprocity,
- retaliation,
- ricochet fire,
- rifle fire,
- shellfire,
- shoot-out,
- shooting,
- something for something,
- time fire,
- tit for tat,
- transposal,
- transposition,
- vertical fire,
- zone fire