<p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>Made or used for cutting crosswise.</li><li>Cut across the grain or on the bias.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>A transverse cut or course.</li><li>A shortcut by way of an area not ordinarily traversed, as grass or open country; a route that cuts diagonally across a road or path network.</li><li>Mining: an underground passageway, usually from a shaft to a vein of ore or crosswise of a vein of ore.</li><li>Movies, Television: an act or instance of crosscutting; a crosscut saw.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>Crossbreed, to cut or go across.</li><li>Movies, Television: to insert into a scene or sequence (portions of another scene), as to heighten suspense or suggest simultaneous action.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object):</strong></p><ul><li>Movies, Television: to employ the technique of crosscutting.</li></ul>