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Definition: Crisscrossed |
CrisscrossedAdjective1. Marked with crossing lines. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crisscrossed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references) |
Synonym: CrisscrossedSynonym: crisscross (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: crisscross (public administration, sports & leisure), noughts and crosses, tack-tack-toe. |
Crosswords: Crisscrossed |
| English words defined with "crisscrossed": crisscross. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crisscrossed": fractured ground. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Segretti crisscrossed the country, at least a dozen times. (All the President's Men; writing credit: Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The bar of cold white light swung over their heads and crisscrossed the field. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Crisscrossed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Crisscrossed" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 50% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crisscrossed rake shovel snow | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crisscrossed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 交叉往来. (various references) | ||||
German | durchkreuzte wiederholt. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | isscrossedcray | ||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crisscrossed" (pronounced kri"skrô'st) |
| 3 | -ô' s t | holocaust. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-i-o-r-r-s-s-s-s" | |
-2 letters: crisscross. | |
-3 letters: scissored. | |
-4 letters: crosiers, crossers, dossiers, drossier, scissors. | |
-5 letters: ciceros, cirrose, ciscoes, codices, corders, corries, crosier, crossed, crosser, crosses, dorsers, dossers, dossier, drosses, orrices, orrises, records, recross, scissor, scorers, seisors, soccers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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