Meaning

4 senses
  1. A metal beam that connects a piston to a connecting rod in an engine.

    metal block that connects to a piston; it slides on parallel guides and moves a connecting rod back and forth

  2. Large text, like a headline but typically drawn from the article, placed partway through the article to break it up visually.

  3. A screw with a cross-shaped indentation for gripping and turning, as opposed to a flathead.

  4. A note with an x-shaped notehead, indicating a non-tonal sound such as a drumbeat or a rapped syllable.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From cross + head.

From cross + head.

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Forms

plural: crossheads
Singularcrosshead
Pluralcrossheads

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text:crossheading

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
crosshead — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto