crosswise
crosswise adjective: crossing; lying across.
Adjective
crosswise (not comparable)
Adverb
crosswise (not comparable)
- transversely; so as to lie across
- Jesse gave a whoop, then was out of the saddle and ducking behind a clump of rhododendron, putting his horse crosswise between himself and the beeves.2014, Lori Benton, The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn, WaterBrook Press, →ISBN, page 4
crosswise meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Sanskrit
crosswise in Tamil
- குறுக்காக, குறுக்கே, குறுக்குவாட்டில், இடையே, மாறாக
crosswise in Telugu
- crosswise, across, transversely
- అడ్డముగా aḍḍamugā
crosswise in Malayalam
- diagonally, obliquely, transversely
- കുറുകെ, വിലങ്ങനെ, കുരിശിന്റെ ആകൃതിയിൽ, കോമ്പാഞ്ഞ്, കോണോടുകോണായി, തിര്യക്
crosswise in Sanskrit
- crosswise, through
- तिरश्चा tiraścā́
- crosswise
- तिरश्च tiraścá
Forms of crosswise
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Origin of crosswise
From Middle English croswyse, crose wyse, equivalent to cross + -wise.
Words formed from crosswise
Questions about crosswise
- What does crosswise mean?
- Crosswise means crossing; lying across.
- What is crosswise in Tamil?
- Crosswise in Tamil is குறுக்காக, குறுக்கே, குறுக்குவாட்டில். See Crosswise meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is crosswise?
- Crosswise can be an adjective or an adverb.
Words near crosswise in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: crosswise (page history and authors); crosswise (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); అడ్డముగా (Telugu) (page history and authors); crosswise (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); तिरश्च (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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