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Definition: Crossbar |
CrossbarNoun1. A horizontal bar that goes across something. 2. Game equipment consisting of a horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over. 3. Long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crossbar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Any piece of timber supporting the roof between two pit-props. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | The horizontal roof member of a timber set on mine roadways, or a flatsupported by props on the face. See also:beam. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | Spanish (tranca ). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Crossbar |
| English words defined with "crossbar": Anchor stock ♦ Evener ♦ goalpost ♦ Jerusalem cross ♦ pole jump, pole jumper, pole jumping, pole vault, pole vaulter, pole vaulting ♦ Stemple, swingletree ♦ vaulter ♦ whiffletree, whippletree. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crossbar": BAR AND FILLER ASSEMBLER ♦ FELT-CUTTING-MACHINE OPERATOR, fore beam ♦ head-out worker, hogshead liner ♦ junctor, junctor circuit ♦ LINE-OUT WORKER I ♦ PANTOGRAPH SETTER, power-cutting-machine operator. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Crossbar" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Crossbar" is used about 85 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 85 | 35,870 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "crossbar": Crossbar shot. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crossbar | 12 |
crossbar pad | 9 |
crossbar flanged | 8 |
crossbar switch | 5 |
crossbar rack roof | 3 |
crossbar honda odyssey | 2 |
crossbar yakima | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crossbar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tërthore (bias, brace, crosspiece, crossrail, stretcher, strut, tie beam, transom, transversal, yoke), shtyllë horizontale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разпънка (temple), траверса (crossarm, crosspiece, sleeper, tie, traverse), напречна греда (arm, binder, bolster, crossbeam, jig, joist, rail, sill, stretcher, summer-tree, tie beam, transom), лост (bar, bolt, clevis, column, horizontal bar, lever, pinch, pry, tiller). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 志横线. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | závora (bar, barrier, bolt, Pike, push-bolt, rail, Toll bar, toll gate), příèné břevno, horní trubka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | minetoemmer (footer, footlid, holing block, lagging, mine prop, mine timber, mining timber, pillar, pit prop, pit timber, post, prop, split, sprag, strut, stull, timber chock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | schoorpaal of steunpaal voor de mijnen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | propsi (mine prop, pillar, pit prop, pitprops, post, prop, stull), poikkipuu (cross-bar, cross-piece), poikkipiena (batten), poikkipalkki (bridge, cross beam, cross rail, cross slide, ledger, transverse beam), kaivospuu (mine prop, mine timber, mining timber, pillar, pit prop, pit timber, pitprops, post, prop, stull), kaivospropsi, kaivospaalu, kaivospölkky (pit prop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | chapeau (cradle cap), bille, barre transversale (cross bar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | querbalken (cross beam, crossbeam, lintel, macron, transom). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάθετοσ ράβδοσ, καθετή γραμμή (virgule), διαδοκίς,τραβέρσα,ακατέργαστος κορμός, δοκάρια ποδόσφαιρου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | משקוף (framehead, lintel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | keresztrúd (beams, binding joist, cross-arm, lintel, main joist, stretcher), kerékpárváz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cappello del quadro, cappello (cap, hat), canna (barrel, cane, canna, fishing rod, funnel, pipe, Reed, rod, stick), traversa (arbor, beam, crossbeam, crosspiece, crossroad, rail, side street, traverse), asticella. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 木 (gate with a crossbar, lintel, roofed gate), クローン病 (close game, Croatia, crocodile, Crohn's disease, cross, cross counter, cross country skiing, cross kick, cross-check, cross-country race, crossed Nichol prism, crossover, cross-stitch, gross, off-road vehicle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かぶき (gate with a crossbar, Japanese classical drama, kabuki, lintel, roofed gate), クロスバー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 빗장. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ossbarcray esteio de mina (mine prop, pillar, pit prop, pitprops, post, prop, stull). (various references) поперечина (crossarm, cross-arm, crossbeam, crosspiece, cross-piece), планка (batten, flitch, lath, planch, plank, slat, strap, strip). (various references) prečka (jib). (various references) travesaño (crossbeam, cross-piece, rung, transom, traverse), rollo (bolt, coil, jazz, reel, roll, spiel, twist), rollizo (buxom), larguero (lavish, lengthy, slow-working, Stringer, support), de travesaño. (various references) tvärslå (cross-bar, crosspiece, rung, slat), slå (bang, bash, beat, bolt, buffet, cap, capture, cast, catch, dash, defeat, dial, drive, flap, hit, hurt smb., hurtle, impinge, knock, lay, lick, mow, palpitate, pour, punch, ram, sit, slam, slap, slat, smash, smite, strike, stroke, tack, throw, trounce, warble, whang, whip), nare (biting wind), gruvvirke (mine timber, mining timber, pit timber). (various references) kol demiri (crowbar), kale üst direği, enine bağlantı, engel çubuğu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | iugum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crossbar": crossbarred, crossbarring, crossbars. (additional references) | |
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"Crossbar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kosbar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-o-r-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: across, arbors, carbos, carobs, cobras. | |
-3 letters: arbor, basso, boars, boras, brass, carbo, carbs, carob, carrs, cobra, crabs, crass, cross, orcas, roars, saros, scabs, scars, soars, soras, sorbs. | |
-4 letters: abos, arbs, arco, arcs, bars, bass, boar, boas, bora, boss, bras, bros, cabs, carb, carr, cars, cobs, cors, coss, crab, oars, ocas, orbs, orca, orcs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-o-r-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: crossbars. | |
+3 letters: abstractors, crossbarred, crossbearer, scoreboards. | |
+4 letters: broadcasters, chrysarobins, crossbarring, crossbearers, prosobranchs, rebroadcasts. | |
+5 letters: arborescences, carbohydrases, fibrosarcomas, overabstracts, scratchboards, subcontraries. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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