Word Meanings - CROSSWISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In the form of a cross; across; transversely. Longfellow.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CROSSWISE)

• Transverse
• Athwart
• crosswise
• across
• rectangular

Related words: (words related to CROSSWISE)

• RECTANGULARITY
  The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled.
• TRANSVERSELY
  In a transverse manner.
• CROSSWISE
  In the form of a cross; across; transversely. Longfellow.
• ATHWART
  Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course. Athwart hawse, across the stem of another vessel, whether in contact or at a small distance. -- Athwart ships, across the ship from side to side, or in that direction; --
• ACROSS
  From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course
• TRANSVERSE
  Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to Ant: longitudinal. Transverse axis (of an ellipse or hyperbola) , that axis which passes through the foci. -- Transverse partition , a partition, as of a pericarp,
• RECTANGULAR
  Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees. -- Rec*tan"gu*lar*ly (r, adv. -- Rec*tan"gu*lar*ness, n.
• LACROSSE
  A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught
• INTERTRANSVERSE
  Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ.
• TRIRECTANGULAR
  Having three right angles. See Triquadrantal. (more info) Trig.)
• BIRECTANGULAR
  Containing or having two right angles; as, a birectangular spherical triangle.