Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.
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- noun The
reading of thelines of anewspaper directlyacross the page, instead of down thecolumns , thus producing aludicrous combination ofideas .
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Examples
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It wasn't until there was a major policy change at Marvel where everything had to be an EVENT that the title began to require so much cross-reading.
Self-Contained Title Experiment | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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The fact that time seems to pass very slowly to us, and space seems so vast, is a product of our remotely and electromagnetically observing (cross-reading) our 4D event horizon existence in extreme, but mathematically predictable and definable gravitational time dilation, at certain coordinates in the manifold … place in scale … space/time.
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Of course, I took the time to link the two together, to ensure as much cross-reading as possible, and over the two weeks that followed my very young blog not yet two months old! experienced levels of traffic that are small beans by some site's standards but pretty good for a four-week-old blog that tries to marry art, technology, education and daily life by some guy who animates in PowerPoint.
Archive 2006-07-01 Jeremiah McNichols 2006
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The _World's_ cross-reading is a capital one, bringing the pigs together nicely, and suggesting the following remarks:
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Remember the old proverb, "Cross-writing makes cross-reading."
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Stuart Dodgson Collingwood 1903
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These are full of a strange, subdued, old, midsummer interest to me: and though, from the numerous effacements, it is much like cross-reading to make them out; yet, I must here copy a few at random: --
Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855
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House of Commons, young Burke actually ran away, which an Orangeman compared to a cross-reading in the newspapers: -- Yesterday the Catholic resolutions were moved, etc., but, the pistol missing fire, the villains ran off!
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801
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Recently, they started a Round Robin where members would be coerced invited to join in this exercise so that there will be cross-reading between blogs in Team Blue.
Anime Nano! 2009
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a lump of metal; but the _World_ of March 26th has an accidental, though none the less curious, "cross-reading," which brings foreign pig directly into contact with domestic.
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He does a great job of cross-reading and working his progressions as the play goes along and as the play breaks down, making plays with his feet sometimes. "
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