- crossed line
- crossed line nounA telephone line connected in error to a different line or circuit• • •Main Entry: ↑cross
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crossed line — ► crossed line a telephone connection that has been wrongly made with the result that another call can be heard. Main Entry: ↑cross … English terms dictionary
crossed line — a telephone connection that has been wrongly made with the result that another call can be heard. → cross … English new terms dictionary
crossed — [krɔst US kro:st] adj if a telephone line is crossed, it is connected by mistake to two or more telephones, so that you can hear other people s conversations ▪ I phoned him up and got a crossed line … Dictionary of contemporary English
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Crossed Lines (album) — Crossed Lines Studio album by 78 Saab Released 18 October, 2004 Recorded Megaphon Sony St … Wikipedia
line — In Fanny Burney s Cecilia (1782) the question is asked Where, then, do you draw the line?, meaning how far can a person expect to be independent. The image of drawing lines has fed English idiom for several centuries, extending to the more… … Modern English usage
Line-crossing ceremony — U.S. Sailors and Marines participate in a line crossing ceremony aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) as the ship passes the Equator May 16, 2008. It has been a long naval tradition to initiate pollywogs, sailors who have never crossed the Equator,… … Wikipedia
Crossed product — In mathematics, and more specifically in the theory of von Neumann algebras, a crossed product is a basic method of constructing a new von Neumann algebra from a von Neumann algebra acted on by a group. It is related to the semidirect product… … Wikipedia
Crossed — Cross Cross, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crossed} (kr[o^]st; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crossing}.] 1. To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms. [1913 Webster] 2. To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
line — I. /laɪn / (say luyn) noun 1. a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface. 2. something resembling a traced line, as a band of colour, a seam, a furrow, etc.: lines of stratification in… …
