CROSS-INDEX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cross-index mean? 

• CROSS-INDEX (noun)
  The noun CROSS-INDEX has 1 sense:

1. a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work

  Familiarity information: CROSS-INDEX used as a noun is very rare.

• CROSS-INDEX (verb)
  The verb CROSS-INDEX has 1 sense:

1. make an index that refers from one point to the next

  Familiarity information: CROSS-INDEX used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROSS-INDEX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

cross-index; cross-reference

Hypernyms ("cross-index" is a kind of...):

acknowledgment; citation; cite; credit; mention; quotation; reference (a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage)

Derivation:

cross-index (make an index that refers from one point to the next)

• CROSS-INDEX (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they cross-index    ... he / she / it cross-indexes   
Past simple: cross-indexed   
Past participle: cross-indexed   
-ing form: cross-indexing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make an index that refers from one point to the next

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

These references are cross-indexed

Hypernyms (to "cross-index" is one way to...):

index (list in an index)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

cross-index (a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work)

 Context examples 

The first day Holmes had spent in cross-indexing his huge book of references.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the other was deep in one of Clark Russell’s fine sea-stories until the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of the sea waves.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)