The difference between Cross and Go

When used as nouns, cross means 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, whereas go means the act of going.

When used as verbs, cross means to place across or athwart, whereas go means to move through space (especially to or through a place).


Cross is also preposition with the meaning: across.

Cross is also adjective with the meaning: transverse.

check bellow for the other definitions of Cross and Go

  1. Cross as a noun:

    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.

    Examples:

    "Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one."

  2. Cross as a noun (heraldiccharge):

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

  3. Cross as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross."

  4. Cross as a noun:

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

  5. Cross as a noun (Christianity):

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

    Examples:

    "She made the cross after swearing."

  6. Cross as a noun (Christianity):

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

    Examples:

    "She was wearing a cross on her necklace."

  7. Cross as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "It's a cross I must bear."

  8. Cross as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "A quick cross of the road."

  9. Cross as a noun (biology):

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

  10. Cross as a noun (by extension):

    A hybrid of any kind.

  11. Cross as a noun (boxing):

    A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.

  12. Cross as a noun (football):

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

  13. Cross as a noun:

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

  14. Cross as a noun:

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

  15. Cross as a noun (obsolete):

    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.

  16. Cross as a noun (obsolete, Ireland):

    Church lands.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Sir J. Davies"

  17. Cross as a noun:

    A line drawn across or through another line.

  18. Cross as a noun (surveying):

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

  19. Cross as a noun:

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

  20. Cross as a noun (Rubik's Cube):

     Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.

  21. Cross as a noun (cartomancy):

    The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.

  1. Cross as an adjective:

    Transverse; lying across the main direction.

    Examples:

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

  2. Cross as an adjective (archaic):

    Opposite, opposed to.

    Examples:

    "His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness."

  3. Cross as an adjective (now, rare):

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

  4. Cross as an adjective:

    Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.

    Examples:

    "She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job."

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

  5. Cross as an adjective:

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

    Examples:

    "cross interrogatories"

    "cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other"

  1. Cross as a preposition (archaic):

    across

    Examples:

    "She walked cross the mountains."

  2. Cross as a preposition:

    cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.

    Examples:

    "The [[Lorentz force]] is q times v cross B."

  1. Cross as a verb (reflexive, to cross oneself):

    To make or form a cross. To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect. To lay or draw something across, such as a line. To mark with an X. To write lines at right angles. To make the sign of the cross over oneself.

    Examples:

    "She frowned and crossed her arms."

    "to cross the letter t"

    "'Cross the box which applies to you."

  2. Cross as a verb (transitive):

    To move relatively. To go from one side of (something) to the other. To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another. To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. Relative movement by a player or of players. # Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs. # To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side. # To score a try. #* {{quote-journal|lang=en|date=February 12, 2011|author=Mark Orlovac|work=BBC |title=[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/9393726.stm England 59-13 Italy] |passage=England cut loose at the end of the half, Ashton, Mark Cueto and Mike Tindall all crossing before the break.}}

    Examples:

    "Why did the chicken cross the road?"

    "You need to cross the street at the lights."

    "Ships crossing from [[starboard]] have right-of-way."

    "He crossed the ball into the penalty area."

  3. Cross as a verb (social):

    To oppose. To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of. To interfere and cut off; to debar. To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.

    Examples:

    "You'll rue the day you tried to cross me, Tom Hero!" bellowed the villain."

  4. Cross as a verb (biology):

    To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.

    Examples:

    "They managed to cross a sheep with a goat."

  5. Cross as a verb:

    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.

  1. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To move: To move through space (especially to or through a place). To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc). To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion). To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving. To leave; to move away. To walk; to travel on one's feet.

    Examples:

    "Why don’t you go with us? This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago. Chris, where are you going? There's no public transit where I'm going. Wow, look at him go!"

    "Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell."

    "Fans want to see the Twelfth Doctor go to the 51st century to visit River in the library."

    "We've only gone twenty miles today. This car can go circles around that one."

    "We went swimming. Let's go shopping."

    "Please don't go! I really must be going. Workmen were coming and going at all hours of the night."

  2. Go as a verb (intransitive, chiefly, of a, machine):

    To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).

    Examples:

    "The engine just won't go anymore."

  3. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To start; to begin (an action or process).

    Examples:

    "Get ready, get set, go! [[on your marks, get set, go On your marks, get set, go]]! [[on your marks On your marks]], set, go!"

    "Here goes nothing. Let's go and hunt."

  4. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To take a turn, especially in a game.

    Examples:

    "It’s your turn; go."

  5. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To attend.

    Examples:

    "I go to school at the schoolhouse. She went to Yale. They only go to church on Christmas."

  6. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To proceed: To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state). To proceed (especially to do something foolish).

    Examples:

    "That went well. "How are things going?" "Not bad, thanks."

    "Why'd you have to go and do that?"

    "Why'd you have to go do that?"

    "He just went and punched the guy. "

  7. Go as a verb:

    To follow or travel along (a path): To follow or proceed according to (a course or path). To travel or pass along.

    Examples:

    "Let's go this way for a while."

    "She was going that way anyway, so she offered to show him where it was."

  8. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To extend (from one point in time or space to another).

    Examples:

    "This property goes all the way to the state line."

  9. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To lead (to a place); to give access to.

    Examples:

    "Does this road go to Fort Smith?"

  10. Go as a verb (copula):

    To become.

    Examples:

    "You'll go blind. I went crazy / went mad. After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight."

  11. Go as a verb:

    To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.

  12. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To continuously or habitually be in a state.

    Examples:

    "I don't want my children to go hungry. We went barefoot in the summer."

  13. Go as a verb:

    To come to (a certain condition or state).

    Examples:

    "they went into debt'', ''she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock'', ''the local shop wants to go digital, and eventually go global"

  14. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.

    Examples:

    " The traffic light went straight from green to red."

  15. Go as a verb:

    To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).

    Examples:

    "How did your meeting with Smith go?"

  16. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To tend (toward a result).

    Examples:

    "Well, that goes to show you. These experiences go to make us stronger."

  17. Go as a verb:

    To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.

    Examples:

    "qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter"

  18. Go as a verb (intransitive, of time):

    To pass, to be used up: To elapse, to pass; to slip away. To end or disappear. To be spent or used up.

    Examples:

    "The time went slowly."

    "After three days, my headache finally went."

    "His money went on drink."

  19. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To die.

  20. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be discarded.

    Examples:

    "This chair has got to go."

  21. Go as a verb (intransitive, cricket):

    To be lost or out: To be lost. To be out.

  22. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To break down or apart: To collapse or give way, to break apart. To break down or decay.

    Examples:

    "This meat is starting to go off. My mind is going. She's 83; her eyesight is starting to go."

  23. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be sold.

    Examples:

    "Everything must go. The car went for five thousand dollars."

  24. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.

    Examples:

    "The property shall go to my wife. The award went to Steven Spielberg."

  25. Go as a verb (transitive, intransitive):

    To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.

    Examples:

    "How long can you go without water? We've gone without your help for a while now. I've gone ten days now without a cigarette. Can you two go twenty minutes without arguing?!"

  26. Go as a verb (transitive, sports):

    To have a certain record.

    Examples:

    "They've gone one for three in this series. The team is going five in a row."

  27. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be authoritative, accepted, or valid: To have (final) authority; to be authoritative. To be accepted. To be valid.

    Examples:

    "Whatever the boss says goes, do you understand?"

    "Anything goes around here."

  28. Go as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To say (something), to make a sound: To say (something, aloud or to oneself). To make the (specified) sound. To sound; to make a noise.

    Examples:

    "I go, "As if!" And she was all like, "Whatever!"

    "As soon as I did it, I went "that was stupid."

    "Cats go "meow". Motorcycles go "vroom"."

    "I woke up just before the clock went."

  29. Go as a verb:

    To be expressed or composed (a certain way).

    Examples:

    "The tune goes like this. As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic."

  30. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To resort (to).

    Examples:

    "I'll go to court if I have to."

  31. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To apply or subject oneself to: To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something). To work (through or over), especially mentally.

    Examples:

    "I'm going to join a sports team.'' ''I wish you'd go and get a job.'' ''He went to pick it up, but it rolled out of reach."

    "He's going to leave town tomorrow''."

    "You didn't have to go to such trouble. I never thought he'd go so far as to call you. She went to great expense to help them win."

    "I've gone over this a hundred times. Let's not go into that right now."

  32. Go as a verb (intransitive, often followed by a preposition):

    To fit (in a place, or together with something): To fit. To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink. To belong (somewhere).

    Examples:

    "Do you think the sofa will go through the door? The belt just barely went around his waist."

    "This shade of red doesn't go with the drapes. White wine goes better with fish than red wine."

    "My shirts go on this side of the wardrobe. This piece of the jigsaw goes on the other side."

  33. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To date.

    Examples:

    "How long having they been going together? He's been going with her for two weeks."

  34. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To attack: To fight or attack. To attack.

    Examples:

    "I went at him with a knife."

  35. Go as a verb:

    To be in general; to be usually.

    Examples:

    "As sentences go, this one is pretty boring."

  36. Go as a verb (transitive):

    To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.

    Examples:

    "Let's go halves on this."

  37. Go as a verb (transitive):

    To yield or weigh.

    Examples:

    "Those babies go five tons apiece."

  38. Go as a verb (transitive, intransitive):

    To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.

    Examples:

    "That's as high as I can go. We could go two fifty."

    "I'll go a ten-spot. I'll go you a shilling."

  39. Go as a verb (transitive, colloquial):

    To enjoy.

    Examples:

    "I could go a beer right about now."

  40. Go as a verb (intransitive, colloquial):

    To urinate or defecate.

    Examples:

    "I really need to go. Have you managed to go today, Mrs. Miggins?"

  1. Go as a noun (uncommon):

    The act of going.

  2. Go as a noun:

    A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).

    Examples:

    "You’ve been on that pinball machine long enough—now let your brother have a go."

    "It’s your go."

  3. Go as a noun:

    An attempt, a try.

    Examples:

    "I’ll give it a go."

  4. Go as a noun:

    An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.

    Examples:

    "We will begin as soon as the boss says it's a go."

  5. Go as a noun:

    An act; the working or operation.

  6. Go as a noun (slang, dated):

    A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.

  7. Go as a noun (dated):

    The fashion or mode.

    Examples:

    "quite the go"

  8. Go as a noun (dated):

    Noisy merriment.

    Examples:

    "a high go"

  9. Go as a noun (slang, archaic):

    A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.

  10. Go as a noun:

    Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.

    Examples:

    "There is no go in him."

  11. Go as a noun (cribbage):

    The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.

  12. Go as a noun:

    A period of activity.

    Examples:

    "ate it all in one go"

  13. Go as a noun (obsolete, British slang):

    A dandy; a fashionable person.

  1. Go as a noun (board game):

    A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.