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Pick up that cross.
Move those crosses here.
He was very cross.
He said it very crossly.
She was even crosser.
He was the crossest.
Why did he cross the road?
When she crosses.
Is he crossing?
She crossed the road.

  • 2024 A reference to a calculation or an idea that occurs to one being jotted down on an available scrap of paper, such as the back of an envelope. (Received...
    10 KB (1,056 words) - 08:46, 2 June 2024
  • 112–113: The reader will not need to be warned that the calculations involved are of the back of an envelope type and statements of the form ‘a equals b’...
    3 KB (339 words) - 20:17, 10 May 2024
  • grid paper, graph paper (idiomatic) back-of-the-envelope ruutupaperilaskelma ― back-of-the-envelope calculation logaritmipaperi millimetripaperi puolilogaritmipaperi...
    607 bytes (68 words) - 15:19, 3 July 2023
  • Richard Feynman, who used a back-of-the-envelope calculation using classical physics to determine that element 137 is the last stably neutrally charged...
    1 KB (111 words) - 02:04, 19 August 2024
  • to teach dimensional analysis or the approximation of extreme scientific calculations: often a back-of-the-envelope problem with limited data. Synonym:...
    444 bytes (57 words) - 04:46, 2 September 2022
  • packets shall be coloured black and covered in health warnings and extreme images, making writing on the back virtually impossible. back-of-the-envelope...
    1 KB (158 words) - 08:49, 23 October 2023
  • take (category Requests for review of Dutch translations)
    quite out of ſhape, by happening to miſtake a Figure in the Calculation. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing. He took a mental inventory...
    94 KB (10,631 words) - 17:38, 31 August 2024