Dictionary Definition
crossing
Noun
1 traveling across
2 a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
[syn: ford]
3 a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.)
intersect
4 a junction where one street or road crosses
another [syn: intersection, crossroad, crossway, carrefour]
5 a path (often marked) where something (as a
street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the
other [syn: crosswalk,
crossover]
6 (genetics) the act of mixing different species
or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids [syn:
hybridization,
hybridisation,
crossbreeding,
cross, interbreeding, hybridizing]
7 a voyage across a body of water (usually across
the Atlantic Ocean)
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
Translations
intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross
- Finnish: risteys
- French: carrefour, croisement
place at which a river, railroad, or highway may
be crossed
- Finnish: ylikulkupaikka
voyage across a body of water
- Finnish: ylittäminen, ylitys
- French: traversée
volume formed by the intersection of chancel,
nave and transepts in a cruciform church
- Czech: křížení
References
- Dictionary.com
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
Extensive Definition
Crossing may refer to:
- Crossing (architecture), the junction of the four arms of a cruciform church
- Crossing (river), any means to get from one riverbank to the other.
- Crossing (film), Canadian independent feature film
- Pedestrian crossing, a designated point on a road
- Voice crossing, compositional technique
See also
- Animal Crossing
- Border Crossing
- Cross (disambiguation)
- Crossing the Line
- Crossing the T
- Crossing the Rubicon (disambiguation)
- The Crossing (disambiguation)
- Global Crossing, a fiberoptic communications company
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abjuration, abjurement, abrogation, absolute
contradiction, annulment, approach, asymptote, bottleneck, bucking, carrefour, challenge, cloverleaf, collision course,
commutation,
concentralization,
concentration,
concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congress, contention, contradiction, contraposition, contrary
assertion, contravention, contraversion, controversion, convergence, converging, counteraction, countering, counterworking, course, crossbreeding, crosscurrent, crosspoint, crossroad, crosswalk, crossway, crosswise, cruise, denial, disaffirmation, disallowance, disavowal, disclaimer, disclamation, disownment, disproof, flyover, focalization, focus, forswearing, funnel, gainsaying, globe-trotting,
going, grade crossing,
head wind, hub, hybridism, hybridization, impugnation, impugnment, interbreeding, intercrossing, intersection, journeying, leg, level crossing, locomotion, meeting, miscegenation, mongrelism, motion, movement, moving, mutual approach,
narrowing gap, negation, nullification, ocean trip,
opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnation, overcrossing, overpass, passage, progress, radius, rebutment, rebuttal, recantation, refusal, refutation, rejection, renunciation, repudiation, resistance, retractation, retraction, revocation, rotary, run, sail, sea trip, shakedown cruise,
spokes, standing against,
tangent, thwart, tourism, touristry, traffic circle,
traject, trajet, transit, transversal, travel, traveling, traversal, traverse, undercrossing, undercurrent, viaduct, voyage