See also: <span class="searchmatch">cross</span>-<span class="searchmatch">purpose</span> <span class="searchmatch">cross</span> <span class="searchmatch">purpose</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">cross</span> <span class="searchmatch">purposes</span>) Alternative form of <span class="searchmatch">cross</span>-<span class="searchmatch">purpose</span>....
<span class="searchmatch">cross</span> <span class="searchmatch">purpose</span> <span class="searchmatch">cross</span> <span class="searchmatch">purpose</span> Attested (in the plural form) since the 1660s, originally meaning ‘contradictory intentions.’ <span class="searchmatch">cross</span>-<span class="searchmatch">purpose</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">cross</span>-purposes)...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">cross</span>-<span class="searchmatch">purposes</span> <span class="searchmatch">cross</span> <span class="searchmatch">purposes</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">cross</span> <span class="searchmatch">purpose</span>. (plural-noun) Conflicting, or contrary meanings or ideas, usually arising unintentionally...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">cross</span> <span class="searchmatch">purposes</span> <span class="searchmatch">cross</span>-<span class="searchmatch">purposes</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">cross</span>-<span class="searchmatch">purpose</span> <span class="searchmatch">cross</span>-<span class="searchmatch">purposes</span> (uncountable) (dated) A conversational game, in which questions and answers...
Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) at <span class="searchmatch">cross</span>-<span class="searchmatch">purposes</span> (idiomatic) Mutually misunderstanding each other's plans, intentions...
common <span class="searchmatch">purpose</span> metapurpose all-<span class="searchmatch">purpose</span> all-<span class="searchmatch">purpose</span> flour by-<span class="searchmatch">purpose</span> <span class="searchmatch">cross</span>-<span class="searchmatch">purpose</span> <span class="searchmatch">cross</span> <span class="searchmatch">purpose</span> dative of <span class="searchmatch">purpose</span> defeat the <span class="searchmatch">purpose</span> dual-<span class="searchmatch">purpose</span> fit for...
crossguard <span class="searchmatch">cross</span>-handed <span class="searchmatch">cross</span>-inhibition <span class="searchmatch">cross</span>-inhibitory crossish <span class="searchmatch">crossly</span> <span class="searchmatch">cross</span>-multiplication <span class="searchmatch">crossness</span> crosspatch <span class="searchmatch">cross</span> <span class="searchmatch">purposes</span> <span class="searchmatch">cross</span>-section <span class="searchmatch">cross</span>-wise...
Corriedale (plural Corriedales) A sheep of a dual-<span class="searchmatch">purpose</span> breed that is a <span class="searchmatch">cross</span> between Merino and Lincoln sheep....
terrain and specially designed roads, meant to simulate a <span class="searchmatch">cross</span>-country ride within a <span class="searchmatch">purpose</span>-built circuit. RX (abbreviation) autocross motocross rally...
together; disagreeing with each other. Antonym: in sync out of step at <span class="searchmatch">cross</span>-<span class="searchmatch">purposes</span> “out of sync”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022...