Patchwork and Cross

noun

• A theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas.
  • synonyms: hodgepodge, jumble
• A quilt made by sewing patches of different materials together.
  • synonyms: patchwork quilt
• Sewing consisting of pieces of different materials sewn together in a pattern. .

(n.) Work composed of pieces sewed together, especially pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly clumsily composed; a thing putched up.

noun

• A wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece.
• A marking that consists of lines that cross each other.
  • synonyms: crisscross, mark
• A representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified; used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry.
• Any affliction that causes great suffering.
  • usage: "that is his cross to bear"; "he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns"
  • synonyms: crown of thorns
• Genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species. (
  • usage: "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey"
  • synonyms: hybrid, crossbreed
• Genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids.
  • synonyms: hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, interbreeding, hybridizing

verb

• Travel across or pass over.
  • usage: "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"
  • synonyms: traverse, track, cover, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across
• Meet at a point.
  • synonyms: intersect
• Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.
  • usage: "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
  • synonyms: thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, frustrate, baffle, bilk
• Fold so as to resemble a cross.
  • usage: "she crossed her legs"
• To cover or extend over an area or time period.
  • usage: "Rivers traverse the valley floor, "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries"
  • synonyms: traverse, span, sweep
• Meet and pass.
  • usage: "the trains crossed"
• Trace a line through or across.
  • usage: "cross your `t'"
• Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties.
  • usage: "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed"
  • synonyms: crossbreed, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed

adjective

• Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis.
  • usage: "cross members should be all steel"; "from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully"; "transversal vibrations"; "transverse colon"
  • synonyms: transverse, transversal, thwartwise
• Annoyed and irritable.
  • synonyms: crabbed, crabby, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered

• (n.) A monument in the form of a cross or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London.
• (n.) A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.
• (n.) A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals.
• (v.t.) To interfere and cut off; to debar.
• (a.) Characterized by or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.
• (n.) A line drawn across or through another line.
• (prep.) Athwart; across.
• (v.t.) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
• (a.) Made in an opposite direction or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other.
• (n.) Church lands.
• (a.) Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.
• (a.) Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse.
• (v.i.) To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.
• (v.t.) To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms.
• (n.) A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle.
• (v.t.) To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t.
• (n.) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
• (v.t.) To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with.
• (n.) A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also, that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.
• (v.t.) To cancel by marking crosses on or over or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off or over; as, to cross out a name.
• (v.t.) To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.
• (n.) Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.
• (v.i.) To move or pass from one side to the other or from place to place; to make a transit; as, to cross from New York to Liverpool.
• (v.t.) To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.
• (n.) The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write.
• (v.i.) To lie or be athwart.
• (v.i.) To be inconsistent.
• (n.) The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger or in ink, etc. or actually represented in some material; the symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom.
• (n.) A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above.
• (v.t.) To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.
• (n.) An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross; a badge or ornamental device of the general shape of a cross; hence, such an ornament, even when varying considerably from that form; thus, the Cross of the British Order of St. George and St. Michael consists of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it.

Securities transaction in which the same broker acts as agent for both sides of the trade; a legal practice only if the broker first offers the securities publicly at a price higher than the bid.