crisscrossed

Thân thiện

The children crisscrossed the playground with colorful chalk lines.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Marked with crossing lines: Describes a pattern, surface, or area where lines, paths, or marks intersect repeatedly, forming a network of crossings.

Usage

• The adjective "crisscrossed" is used to describe the visual or physical state of something being covered with intersecting lines. It often implies a dense or complex pattern of crossing.

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The old map was crisscrossed with faint pencil lines marking trade routes.
  • Her face was crisscrossed with fine wrinkles from years of smiling.
  • The valley below was crisscrossed by a network of hiking trails.

Advanced Usage

• "to be crisscrossed by/with something": A common construction to indicate what forms the crossing pattern.
  • The continent is crisscrossed by major rivers and highways.
  • The document was crisscrossed with official stamps and signatures.

Variants and Related Words

• Crisscross (verb): To move back and forth through or over an area, or to mark something with intersecting lines.
  • Birds crisscrossed the sky at dusk.
• Crisscross (noun): A pattern of intersecting lines.
  • The fabric had a neat crisscross of threads.

Synonyms

• Intersecting: Cutting across or through something else.
• Reticulated: Divided or marked like a network or net.
• Crosshatched: Shaded with two or more sets of parallel lines that cross.

Antonyms

• Parallel: (Of lines or paths) side by side and having the same distance continuously between them.
• Straight: Extending uniformly in one direction without a curve or bend.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. marked with crossing lines

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