crossing

Plural: crossings

Noun

• A place where roads or paths intersect; a journey across.
• traveling across
• a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
• a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
• a junction where one street or road crosses another
• a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
• (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
• a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
• Cross-breeding.
• Opposition; thwarting.
• An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.
• A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.
• The act by which terrain or a road etc. is crossed.
• A voyage across a body of water.
• The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it.
• Movement into a crossed position.
• A pair of intersecting edges.
• A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque.
• The appropriation of a form of language by somebody who is not a member of the group that speaks it.
• Ellipsis of pedestrian crossing.

Verb

• travel across or pass over
• meet at a point
• hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
• fold so as to resemble a cross
• to cover or extend over an area or time period; ,
• meet and pass
• trace a line through or across
• breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
• present participle and gerund of cross

Adj

• Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction.

Examples

• The board featured a busy CROSSING, allowing multiple words to be formed.

Synonyms

baffle, bilk, carrefour, cover, cross, crossbreed, crossbreeding, crossover, crossroad, crosswalk, crossway, cut across, cut through, foil, ford, frustrate, get across, get over, hybridisation, hybridise, hybridization, hybridize, hybridizing, interbreed, interbreeding, intersect, intersection, pass over, queer, scotch, span, spoil, sweep, thwart, track, traverse

Antonyms

uncross

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