crossovern.
/ˈkrɒsəʊvə/, U.S. /ˈkrɔsˌoʊvər/, /ˈkrɑsˌoʊvər/ 1.
a. Textiles. A fabric having the design running across from selvedge to selvedge, instead of along the length.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > patterned > other
tapeta900
tapisa1513
quilting1616
pompadour1758
crossover1795
diamantine1832
chiné1841
nail head1892
floral1897
Paisley1898
basket weave1925
pareu cloth1972
1795 Hull Advertiser 23 May 1/2 1273 yards of..cotton cross-over.
1860 All Year Round 28 Apr. 63 The barragons..quiltings, and cross-overs..for which Bolton was famous.
b. Calico-printing. A bar or stripe of colour printed across another colour.
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1875 A. Ure Dict. Arts IV. 326 Printed as a crossover, it darkens the indigo where it falls.
2.
a. A woman's wrap (usually knitted, or of crochet-work) worn round the shoulders and crossed upon the breast.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > wrap > types of
amicea1382
amytc1384
manto1679
manta1697
palla1706
wrapper1799
wrapa1817
Afghan1850
crossover1868
tea-wrap1909
1868 (The name was then in current use.)
1884 Mrs. Coote Sure Harvest vi. 69 Mrs. Timmins will never lose her rheumatism till she has a warm cross-over to wear over that thin old dress.
1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon I. i. ii. 80 She would wear a grey ulster or a red crossover.
b. Anything so arranged that one part crosses over another; spec., the front of a dress or wrap so arranged.
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1909 Westm. Gaz. 2 Jan. 11/1 An evening dress in satin Rajah, with the bodice arranged in a cross-over.
3. A connection between the up and down lines of a railway by which trains are shunted from one to the other. Also of a tramway.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > rails at points
crossover1884
crossover road1888
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road laid with parallel planks, slabs, or rails > [noun] > laid with rails > for tramcars > rail of > movable, for switching track
point1838
crossover1884
mate1909
1884 Harper's Mag. July 272/2 The incoming trains approach the city on the western track until they reach the ‘cross-over’, which throws them to the eastern track.
1895 Daily News 15 Oct. 3/2 At the starting point are four crossovers to suit any arrangement of traffic.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 29 Nov. 10/2 The castings necessary for the crossovers on electric tramways.
1928 Daily Express 22 Nov. 11/1 The cross-overs available were at Beckenham Junction and Penge.
1967 C. J. Freezer Model Railway Terminol. 5/1 A train proceeding in its correct direction along the main line can run directly over the facing crossover, or must reverse to cross over a trailing crossover.
4. The crossing over of the current from one side of a river to the other.
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 533/1 Just below the Pass of Lillo there is a cross-over in the current.
5. Biology (a) An instance of the process of crossing-over (see crossing-over n. at crossing n. Compounds 2). (b) An individual having characters inherited by crossing-over. Also attributive.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [noun] > changes or actions of genes or chromosomes > cross-over
recombination1903
chiasma1911
crossing-over1912
crossover1912
interference1916
1912 T. H. Morgan & E. Cattell in Jrnl. Exper. Zoöl. 13 91 The sum of the ‘straight’ males is 580, while that of the cross-overs is 292.
1916 Jrnl. Genetics 5 285 The cross-overs appear to occur in numbers exactly proportional to the distance apart of the factors concerned.
1916 Genetics 1 134 Of these thirteen cases which involved crossing over, twelve were crossovers in only one chromosome and were non-crossovers in the other.
1916 Genetics 1 135 A crossover chromosome.
1919 R. C. Punnett Mendelism (ed. 5) xii. 144 It is upon the proportion of ‘crossover’ gametes as compared with ‘non-crossover’ gametes that the distances between the factors along the chromosomes have been determined.
1920 L. Doncaster Introd. Study Cytol. 224 The American investigators call these exceptional combinations cross~overs, since in the combinations of Ab and aB, A and a are regarded as having crossed over from their normal combinations and to have exchanged places.
1964 D. Michie in G. H. Haggis Introd. Molecular Biol. vii. 203 Ultra-fine genetic analyses using fast-breeding micro-organisms are capable of charting the distribution of cross-over events over exceedingly short chromosomal intervals.
Compounds
C1. attributive or as adj. That crosses over; characterized by crossing over or having a part that crosses over another.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > other
smalleOE
lightc1230
round1402
side-necked1430
wanton1489
Spanish1530
tucked1530
lustya1555
civil1582
open-breasted1598
full1601
everlasting1607
sheeten1611
nothinga1616
burly1651
pin-up1677
slouching1691
double-breasted1701
negligée1718
translated1727
uniform1746
undress1777
single-breasted1796
unworn1798
mamalone1799
costumic1801
safeguard1822
Tom and Jerry1830
lightweight1837
fancy dress1844
wrap-1845
hen-skin1846
Mary Stuart1846
well-cut1849
mousquetaire1851
empire1852
costumary1853
solid1859
spring weight1869
Henri II1870
western1881
hard-boiled1882
man-of-war1883
Henley1886
demi-season1890
Gretchen1890
toreador1892
crossover1893
French cut1896
drifty1897
boxy1898
Buster Brown1902
Romney1903
modistic1907
Peter Pan1908
classic1909
Fauntleroy1911
baby doll1912
flared1928
flare1929
tuck-in1929
unpressed1932
Edwardian1934
swingy1937
topless1937
wraparound1937
dressed-down1939
cover-up1942
Sun Yat-sen1942
utility1942
non-utility1948
sudsable1951
off-the-shoulder1953
peasant1953
flareless1954
A-line1955
matador1955
stretch1956
wash-and-wear1959
layered1962
Tom Jones1964
Carnaby Street1965
Action Man1966
Mao-style1967
wear-dated1968
thermal1970
bondage1980
swaggery1980
hoochie1990
mitumba1990
kinderwhore1994
the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [adjective] > having parts crossing over each other
net-traceried1883
crossover1893
1893 ‘M. Gray’ Last Sentence iii. ii White pinafore, cross~over shawl, and velvet hat.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 8 July 13/2 The cross-over bodice.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 4/1 A cross-over ring set with a large brilliant and a cabochon emerald.
1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise i. 8 They stood at corners in their big white aprons and crossover shawls.
1968 Economist 11 May 18/3 Both Governor Branigin and Senator McCarthy were (on different pretexts) soliciting Republican ‘crossover’ votes.
C2.
crossover block n. (see quots.).
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > wire as conductor > [noun] > means of connection
terminal screw1857
crossover block1892
tag1919
1892 T. O'C. Sloane Standard Electr. Dict. (1893) 158 Cross-over block, a piece of porcelain or other material shaped to receive two wires which are to cross each other.
crossover road n.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > rails at points
crossover1884
crossover road1888
1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Cross-over road, a short diagonal line of rails on permanent way, provided with a pair of points or switches at each end, and connecting two parallel lines of rails together.
1893 Athenæum 8 July 68/1 ‘Crossings’ imply something more than merely the gaps left in the rails for a cross-over road.
1896 Daily News 18 Dec. 8/2 He let the goods train on to the up main line, but did not pull over the cross-over road points for the goods train to go across to the down line.
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a. gen. The fact or process of crossing from one state or position to another; exchange; overlap. Also: an instance of this.
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the mind > possession > sharing > [noun] > quality of being shared
commoning?c1450
commonness1530
commonalty1841
crossover1892
commonality1894
sharedness1894
1892 Jrnl. Quekett Microsc. Club July 51 The first arrangement..when applied to the compound microscope gave pseudostereoscopic pictures... There was transposition without a cross-over; it was, therefore, a pseudostereoscope.
1929 C. L. Morgan Mind at Crossways vi. 123 Body and mind are concomitant; but there is no cross-over between concomitants.
1957 Great Bend (Kansas) Sunday Tribune 16 June 1/3 (heading) Jet ‘crossover’ is slated this week... Jet aircraft from the Giant US carrier Saratoga and the British Ark Royal will take off and land on each other's flight decks.
1965 J. McPhee Sense of where you Are (1978) ii. 50 A simple crossover..can force the defensive man to overcommit himself.
1976 Forbes 1 Nov. 64/3 Avco Embassy is a cash-flow producer..but the crossover to profitability is a long way out.
1989 Campaign 26 May 22/4 Some of the techniques for funding radio are the same as they are for television—there is some crossover.
b. Originally U.S. The process or phenomenon by which music belonging to one genre or niche market becomes popular with a different (esp. a wider) audience; a piece of music which undergoes this process. Frequently attributive.
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1973 Let it Rock Apr. 4/1 It is totally American in conception—what the trade press would call a ‘soul chart cert with probable pop crossover’.
1974 Phonograph Record Aug. 49/1 His marvelously fluid vocal stylings give his records the most widespread crossover potential of any reggae product.
1975 Tuscaloosa News (Alabama) 11 June 8 The latest trend is crossovers—songs that make the country charts while also getting on the pop or the middle-of-the-road listings.
1986 Q Oct. 85/4 True to the cliche this album is packed with wide-screen crossover hits like Huey Lewis' Power of Love, [etc.].
1989 Times 19 May 20/5 ‘Crossover’ (opera singers trying to croon Radio 2 material) has made other classical artists into big sellers.
1998 Toronto Star (Nexis) 30 May j5 He was the crossover artist who brought the blues and rock of the black juke joints into the homes of white America.
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crossover vote n. U.S. Politics a vote cast contrary to the voter's usual allegiance; such votes considered collectively.
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1948 Sunday Jrnl. & Star (Lincoln, Nebraska) 4 Apr. 1/5 Stassen told a reporter that he hopes to get a major share of the cross-over votes.
1968 Washington Post 11 Apr. a2/1 McCarthy stressed that the Democratic nominee must appeal to ‘progressive’ Republicans and independents... He cited the crossover vote in Wisconsin as proof of his own appeal in that regard.
1996 S. M. Johnson Leading to Change vi. 160 A school board member emphasized that although some members would occasionally cast crossover votes, ‘there are still clearly two sides of the aisle’.
crossover voter n.
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1950 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 6 Sept. 7/1 Past records indicate that most ‘cross-over’ voters are conscientious. They normally vote for whom they consider the best candidate, rather than the weakest.
2003 Dissent Winter 30/2 Clinton's ‘new Democratic’ appeal to critical swing suburban and blue-collar, crossover voters.
crossover voting n.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [adjective] > type of voting
absentee1858
vote-by-mail1908
solid-shot1935
crossover voting1948
1948 Los Angeles Times 26 May ii. 4/7 It would be interesting to know how much of the Stassen strength in the earlier primaries was the result of crossover voting.
2000 R. V. Friedenberg & J. S. Trent Polit. Campaign Communic. ii. 32 Michigan Democrats switched to a caucus system after they were unsuccessful in their efforts to get the legislature to change the state's law to prevent or inhibit crossover voting.
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U.S. Politics. A crossover vote or voter; cf. crossover vote n. at Additions.
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1952 Washington Post 3 Apr. 5/1 A number of Wisconsin newspapers as well as some CIO unions urged such crossovers.
1964 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post Crescent 8 Apr. c3/5 Byrnes..acknowledged that there were ‘a large number of Republican crossovers’ in the primary, even though he had urged members of his party not to vote in the Democratic primary.
1976 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 70 536 The cross-overs cast ballots in a way significantly different from the Democrats.
2000 G. Boyle Cover Story 351 The guy was a Democrat, but he still needed to pull those Republican votes in to put him over the top. He needed crossovers.
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