cross-trainv.
/ˌkrɒsˈtreɪn/, U.S. /ˌkrɔsˈtreɪn/, /ˌkrɑsˈtreɪn/ 1. transitive. To train (a person) to perform a new skill or job, esp. one which complements existing skills; to train in a number of related disciplines. Also intransitive.
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1958 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 12 May 25/3 Donovan was named sales education director to organize and direct the training program and to cross-train field personnel of the Underwood Corp.
1977 Aviation Week (Nexis) 4 Apr. 59 Army test pilots were cross-trained in both the YUH-60A and the YUH-61A, but the maintenance people were separated according to which helicopter they were assigned.
1986 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 13 Mar. b3 The ambulances are manned by deputy sheriffs who have cross-trained as emergency medical technicians.
1995 Times 17 Feb. 32 The more enterprising agencies suggested a compromise: take people with experience of other mainframes and cross-train them.
2. intransitive. Sport. To train in several different sports in order to improve fitness or performance in one's main sport.
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1984 Washington Post 26 Jan. b5 Running develops the calves and ignores the shins,..so you want to cross-train with something that strengthens the shins and gives you the needed flexibility.
1998 Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram (Nexis) 21 Feb. 5 When a minor ache or pain arises during training, runners should ‘ice it, take some Ibuprofen and cross train on the bike or Stair Master until they feel strong enough to run’.
2003 MBR Sept. 117/2 I'd only do cycling during the season, but cross-train in the off-season, including XC-skiing.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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cross-train
(i) Also said of things in motion or involving motion, as cross-current (also figurative and attributive), cross-ice, cross-traffic, cross-train; cross-post n.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > an opposing force or agent
counter-cast1596
cross-current1598
contre-carre1646
antagonist1647
antipolliges1652
counter-attractiona1763
counterforce1817
antagonism1821
combatant1880
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [noun] > cross-current
cross-current1598
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Trauérsa,..a crosse currant of waters.
1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 469 Cross-ice, loose ice, affording a dubious and difficult passage to a ship.
1849 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 57 I had to wait..for the cross-train to Haddington.
1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. x. 254 It was a happy cross-current recollection.
1899 Morley in Westm. Gaz. 18 Jan. 5/1 There have been cross-currents, and it was impossible either inside the House of Commons or elsewhere that Sir William Harcourt could speak with the authority of a united party.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 26 Jan. 2/2 Cross-current politics.
1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. (1926) I. xix. 140 Several precious moments were lost as the cross-traffic went by.
1948 T. Sharp Oxf. Replanned iv. 89 Two medieval streets which have also, in the absence of any other single cross-town route, to carry the whole of the cross-traffic of a city of 100,000 inhabitants.
1952 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Aeneid xi. 242 In the middle of these cross-currents, when partisan feeling had reached High pressure..the envoys returned.
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