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CROSSE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A long racket with a triangular frame; used in playing lacrosse

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("crosse" is a kind of...):

racket; racquet (a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games)

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 Context examples: 

A junction where one street or road crosses another.

(Intersection, NCI Thesaurus)

Because foscarnet crosses the blood brain barrier, it may be used in the treatment of viral infections of the CNS.

(Foscarnet sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of mass flow rate defined as the mass of matter equal to one kilogram which crosses a given surface during the period of time equal to one second.

(Kilogram per Second, NCI Thesaurus)

Because this agent crosses the blood brain barrier, it may be used in the treatment of viral infections of the central nervous system.

(Foscarnet, NCI Thesaurus)

The part of the pancreas from the point where it crosses the portal vein to the point where it enters the lienorenal ligament.

(Body of the Pancreas, NCI Thesaurus)

A metric unit of volumetric flow rate defined as the rate at which one milliliter of matter crosses a given surface during the period of time equal to one second.

(Milliliter per Second, NCI Thesaurus)

MAVEN, with an elliptical orbit around Mars, has an orbit that crosses those of other spacecraft and the moon Phobos many times over the course of a year.

(NASA Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos, NASA)

When a star crosses precisely in front of a bright star in the background, the gravity of the foreground star focuses the light of the background star, making it appear brighter.

('Iceball' Planet Discovered Through Microlensing, NASA)

The Kepler space telescope hunts for planets by detecting the minuscule drop in a star’s brightness that occurs when a planet crosses in front of it, called a transit.

(NASA Releases Kepler Survey Catalog with Hundreds of New Planet Candidates, NASA)

In particular, around the equinox — the time when the Sun crosses Titan's equator — massive clouds can form in tropical regions and cause powerful methane storms.

(Dust Storms on Titan Spotted for the First Time, NASA)