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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CRUCIFORM

From Latin crux cross + -form.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CRUCIFORM

cruciform  [ˈkruːsɪˌfɔːm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CRUCIFORM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cruciform can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CRUCIFORM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of cruciform in the English dictionary

The definition of cruciform in the dictionary is shaped like a cross. Other definition of cruciform is a geometric curve, shaped like a cross, that has four similar branches asymptotic to two mutually perpendicular pairs of lines. Equation:x² y² – a² x² – a² y² = 0, where x = y = ± a are the four lines.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CRUCIFORM


aciform
ˈæsɪˌfɔːm
acinaciform
ˌæsɪˈnæsɪˌfɔːm
bacciform
ˈbæksɪˌfɔːm
bursiform
ˈbɜːsɪˌfɔːm
culiciform
kjuːˈlɪsɪˌfɔːm
disciform
ˈdɪsɪˌfɔːm
diversiform
daɪˈvɜːsɪˌfɔːm
ensiform
ˈɛnsɪˌfɔːm
falciform
ˈfælsɪˌfɔːm
lanciform
ˈlɑːnsɪˌfɔːm
limaciform
lɪˈmæsɪˌfɔːm
lumbriciform
lʌmˈbrɪsɪˌfɔːm
perciform
ˈpɜːsɪˌfɔːm
pisiform
ˈpɪsɪˌfɔːm
plexiform
ˈplɛksɪˌfɔːm
radiciform
rəˈdɪsɪˌfɔːm
scoleciform
skəʊˈliːsɪˌfɔːm
unciform
ˈʌnsɪˌfɔːm
ursiform
ˈɜːsɪˌfɔːm
verruciform
vəˈruːsɪˌfɔːm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CRUCIFORM

crucian
crucian carp
cruciate
cruciate ligament
cruciately
crucible
crucible steel
crucifer
cruciferous
crucified
crucifier
crucifies
crucifix
crucifixion
cruciformly
crucify
Crucis
cruciverbal
cruciverbalism
cruciverbalist

WORDS THAT END LIKE CRUCIFORM

choreiform
coliform
cribriform
cuneiform
dress uniform
epileptiform
filiform
form
fusiform
glandiform
multiform
nonuniform
piriform
pyriform
rotiform
school uniform
Scout uniform
spongiform
stratiform
uniform
vermiform

Synonyms and antonyms of cruciform in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cruciform» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CRUCIFORM

Find out the translation of cruciform to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cruciform from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cruciform» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

十字
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cruciforme
570 millions of speakers

English

cruciform
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cruciform
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

صليبي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

крестообразная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cruciforme
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্রুশাকার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cruciforme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cruciform
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kreuzförmig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

十字形
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

십자형
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cruciform
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chữ thập
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

க்ரூசிஃபார்ம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्रूसीफॉर्म
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

haç biçiminde
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cruciforme
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

krzyża
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

хрестоподібна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cruciform
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σταυροειδής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kruisvormige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

korsformig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kors
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cruciform

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CRUCIFORM»

The term «cruciform» is normally little used and occupies the 111.755 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CRUCIFORM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cruciform» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cruciform» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cruciform

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRUCIFORM»

Discover the use of cruciform in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cruciform and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cruciform: Living the Cross-Shaped Life
This book casts a vision for living as disciples of Jesus who are being shaped by the cross (gospel) into people and churches who share and show the cross (gospel) by living as sons and servants of God.
Jimmy Davis, 2011
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Inhabiting the Cruciform God: Kenosis, Justification, and ...
In this groundbreaking study of Pauls soteriology, Michael Gorman builds on his influential Cruciformity: Pauls Narrative Spirituality of the Cross to argue that cruciformity is, at its heart, theoformity what the Christian tradition has ...
Michael J. Gorman, 2009
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The New York Cruciform Lectionary
For elegance and beauty, the Constantinopolitan scribes set standards rarely surpassed. The Gospel lectionary was among the books that attracted the most enthusiastic attention of scribes, illuminators, and their patrons.
Jeffrey C. Anderson, 1992
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Bonhoeffer and Continental Thought: Cruciform Philosophy
Places Bonhoeffer in conversation with contemporary Continental philosophy
Brian Gregor, Jens Zimmermann, 2009
5
The Girl Got Up: A Cruciform Memoir
The Girl Got Up is a new kind of spiritual memoir.
Rachel M. Srubas, 2013
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A Philosophical Anthropology of the Cross: The Cruciform Self
Brian Gregor draws together a hermeneutics of the self—through Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Taylor—and a theology of the cross—through Luther, Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer, and Jüngel.
Brian Gregor, 2013
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DNA Conformation and Transcription
An unpaired loop of 3-4 _ bp typically cntisrs at the tip of the cruciform arms. B) cruclform Atomic force microscopy (AFM) image of a 106 bp in- 5t|'uctl-| re verted repeat extruded into a cruciform with 53 bp arms in the extended conformation in  ...
Takashi Ohyama, 2007
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Cruciform Character - 1967
EDITORS' NOTE: The box of the original tape of this lecture is labeled "Cruciform Character of History" number 5. There seem to have been three formal "Tippett Lectures" at the University of the Pacific. Between the second and third, there also ...
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, 1997
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Beauty of Holiness: Anglicanism and Architecture in Colonial ...
The Assembly granted the parish permission to erect an addition, which in its final form was cruciform. In 1734 the parish of St. George's began a program to enlarge their church. Like St. Andrew's, the expanded church was “seventy feet long ...
Louis P. Nelson, 2009
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These Are Written: Toward a Cruciform Theology of Scripture
Peter Nafzger. They continued his emphasis on the spoken Word in the sacraments, describing them as instances of the “visible word,” the “picture of the Word” in which the Word of God is received with the eyes.
Peter Nafzger

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CRUCIFORM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cruciform is used in the context of the following news items.
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Le Corbusier's brave new India
... much of Paris in 1925 by concreting over the 3rd and 4th arrondissements for a new business district dotted with vast, cruciform skyscrapers. «swissinfo.ch, Jul 15»
2
Sites in Japan, Turkey, Mexico, Uruguay inscribed on UNESCO's …
Since the 5th century, the House of the Virgin Mary, a domed cruciform chapel seven kilometres from Ephesus, became a major place of ... «UNESCO.org, Jul 15»
3
Le Corbusier's Chandigarh: an Indian city unlike any other
... 4th arrondissements for a new business district dotted with vast, cruciform skyscrapers. In Chandigarh, however, such critics are hard to find. «Financial Times, Jul 15»
4
New zoning for Bethlehem's Martin Tower
A symbol of Steel's might, it formed a cruciform that produced more corner offices for executives. After Steel declared bankruptcy in 2001, there ... «Allentown Morning Call, Jul 15»
5
Blessed Junípero Serra: Bringing the Faith to California
The grounds also include the ruins of the “Great Stone Church,” a 200-year-old cruciform church that collapsed in an earthquake not long after ... «National Catholic Register, Jul 15»
6
TKMS starts construction of Singapore's Type 218SG submarines
... Type 212A, which offers enhanced manoeuvrability in confined littoral waters, as opposed to the Type 214's cruciform rudder arrangement. «IHS Jane's 360, Jun 15»
7
The Genius of Catholicism
The old “cruciform” architecture created church buildings shaped like a cross. This means that most of the people are in the middle – in the long ... «Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jun 15»
8
Council planning notices
... and turret clock mechanism, installation of electrical supply, installation of glazing panels over north and south cruciform window openings. «Northumberland Gazette, Jun 15»
9
Student experiments launched by NASA's sounding rocket from …
The Terrier motor is 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter and is configured with 2.5 square feet or 4.8 square feet fin panels arranged in a cruciform ... «SpaceFlight Insider, Jun 15»
10
Jurby Church looks forward to new beginning
A new porch and doors were added with the cruciform stained glass panels depicting aspects of the history of the Parish and of the island. «Isle of Man Today, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Cruciform [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cruciform>. Apr 2024 ».
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