Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb to match items from two or more lists.

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Examples

  • After USC realized its mistake, the organ procurement organization used blood samples it had on reserve to conduct what is known as a "cross-match"- a test to see if the transplanted kidney was compatible with the person who received it, Stewart said.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2011

  • After USC realized its mistake, the organ procurement organization used blood samples it had on reserve to conduct what is known as a "cross-match"- a test to see if the transplanted kidney was compatible with the person who received it, Stewart said.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2011

  • We want to now use the data that has been generated by INEC in relation to the fingerprint vis a vis the fingerprint impression on the ballot papers to cross-match and ascertain whether indeed truly the voters who were registered at various polling units were indeed the people who had actually voted for the purpose of that election, said Malami.

    Nigerian President Prepares for Inauguration 2011

  • We want to now use the data that has been generated by INEC in relation to the fingerprint vis a vis the fingerprint impression on the ballot papers to cross-match and ascertain whether indeed truly the voters who were registered at various polling units were indeed the people who had actually voted for the purpose of that election, said Malami.

    Nigerian President Prepares for Inauguration 2011

  • Collecting user and friends 'IDs would let companies build up individual profiles of people who it could cross-match against other data collected from censuses and public information to create detailed profiles of people.

    Facebook apps 'leaking details to advertisers' Charles Arthur 2010

  • They were particularly interested to check Mr Goodman's current email contacts to cross-match them with those from his time at the NoW.

    Police question Coulson and Goodman as phone-hacking investigations widen 2011

  • The State Department discovered through a cross-match of records in 2005 that a fraudulent passport had been issued in Branham's name.

    Accused identity thief caught at BWI 2010

  • IBM Solution: cross-match families from their existing residences into crowded dilapidated slums so that in a single day, thousands of people could be efficiently transferred from point A to point B.

    American Corporate Complicity Created Undeniable Nazi Nexus 2009

  • Doctors paused long enough to cross-match the patients blood type before rolling him into the carriers operating room at 1:20 P.M. Doctors performed an exploratory surgery of the sailors abdomen and removed part of his small intestine.

    The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009

  • The tissue cross-match we did of their blood was nonreactive.

    Change of Heart Jodi Picoult 2008

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