reticulado

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: 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.

Example: Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one.

Definition: Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.

Definition: A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).

Example: Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross.

Definition: (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.

Definition: A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.

Example: She made the cross after swearing.

Definition: A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.

Example: She was wearing a cross on her necklace.

Definition: (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.

Example: It's a cross I must bear.

Definition: The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other

Example: A quick cross of the road.

Definition: An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.

Definition: (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.

Definition: A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.

Definition: A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.

Definition: A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).

Definition: A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)

Definition: 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.

Definition: Church lands.

Definition: A line drawn across or through another line.

Definition: An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.

Definition: A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.

Definition: (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.

Definition: The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.

Definition: Crossfire.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To make or form a cross.

Definition: To move relatively.

Definition: (social) To oppose.

Definition: To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.

Example: They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.

Definition: 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.

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Transverse; lying across the main direction.

Example: At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.

Definition: Opposite, opposed to.

Example: His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.

Definition: Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.

Definition: Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.

Example: Please don't get cross at me. (or) Please don't get cross with me.

Definition: Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.

Example: cross interrogatories

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Across

Example: She walked cross the mountains.

Definition: Cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.

Example: The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.

Phonetic: "/wɛb/"

Part Of Speech: proper noun

Definition: The World Wide Web.

Example: Some of that content is now only available on the Web.

Phonetic: "/wɛb/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.

Example: The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.

Definition: (by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web.

Definition: (sometimes capitalized) Specifically, the World Wide Web.

Example: Let me search the web for that.

Definition: The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.

Example: He caught the ball in the web.

Definition: A latticed or woven structure.

Example: The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.

Definition: (usually with "spin", "weave", or similar verbs) A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.

Example: Careful—she knows how to spin a good web, but don't lean too hard on what she says.

Definition: A plot or scheme.

Definition: The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.

Definition: The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.

Definition: A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.

Definition: The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.

Definition: A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.

Definition: (lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.

Definition: A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.

Definition: A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.

Definition: A major broadcasting network.

Phonetic: "/wɛb/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To construct or form a web.

Definition: To cover with a web or network.

Definition: To ensnare or entangle.

Definition: To provide with a web.

Definition: To weave.