'Crossing' definitions:
Definition of 'crossing'
From: WordNet
noun
Traveling across
noun
A shallow area in a stream that can be forded [syn: ford, crossing]
noun
A point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
noun
A junction where one street or road crosses another [syn: intersection, crossroad, crossway, crossing, carrefour]
noun
A path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other [syn: crossing, crosswalk, crossover]
noun
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids [syn: hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing]
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A voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
Definition of 'Crossing'
From: GCIDE
- Cross \Cross\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crossed (kr[o^]st; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. Crossing.]
- 1. To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream. [1913 Webster]
- A hunted hare . . . crosses and confounds her former track. -- I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. "Your kind letter crossed mine." --J. D. Forbes. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with. [1913 Webster]
- In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- An oyster may be crossed in love. -- Sheridan. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To interfere and cut off; to debar. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- To cross me from the golden time I look for. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name. [1913 Webster]
- 9. To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of. [1913 Webster]
- To cross a check (Eng. Banking), to draw two parallel transverse lines across the face of a check, with or without adding between them the words "and company", with or without the words "not negotiable", or to draw the transverse lines simply, with or without the words "not negotiable" (the check in any of these cases being crossed generally). Also, to write or print across the face of a check the name of a banker, with or without the words "not negotiable" (the check being then crossed specially). A check crossed generally is payable only when presented through a bank; one crossed specially, only when presented through the bank mentioned. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- To cross one's path, to oppose one's plans. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Crossing'
From: GCIDE
- Crossing \Cross"ing\, n. [See Cross, v. t. ]
- 1. The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The act of making the sign of the cross. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Intersection, as of two paths or roads. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street, or a set of marks across the street pavement indicating that this is a designated location for pedestrians to cross. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 6. Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction. [1913 Webster]
- I do not bear these crossings. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'crossing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Crossing'
- Cross,
- Crosse,
- Crossed,
- Crossness,
- The Crossings,
- cross off,
- cross out,
- crossing over,
- Beaver Crossing,
- Cross City,
- Cross County,
- Cross Hill,
- Cross Lanes,
- Cross Mountain,
- Cross Plains,
- Cross Roads,
- Cross Timber,
- Cross Timbers,
- Cross action,
- Cross aisle,
- Cross and pile,
- Cross axle,
- Cross bedding,
- Cross bill,
- Cross bitt,
- Cross bond,
- Cross bottony,
- Cross breed,
- Cross breeding,
- Cross buttock,
- Cross country,
- Cross fertilization,
- Cross file,
- Cross fire,
- Cross forked,
- Cross frog,
- Cross furrow,
- Cross handle,
- Cross keelson,
- Cross lode,
- Cross moline,
- Cross of Calvary,
- Cross of the resurrection,
- Cross potent,
- Cross purpose,
- Cross reference,
- Cross sea,
- Cross stroke,
- Cross wind,
- Cross wires,
- Cross, AR,
- Crossed lens,
- Crossed riveting,
- Egyptian cross,
- Fiery cross,
- Fire cross,
- Geneva cross,
- Grade crossing,
- Greek cross,
- Halls Crossing,
- Holy Cross,
- Invention of the cross,
- Iron cross,
- La Crosse,
- La Crosse, IN,
- Latin cross,
- Lowry Crossing,
- Maltese cross,
- Market cross,
- Papal cross,
- Patriarchal cross,
- Pectoral cross,
- Peltier's cross,
- Preaching cross,
- Rebated cross,
- Red Cross,
- Rosy cross,
- Southern Cross,
- Station of the cross,
- Stimson Crossing,
- Tau cross,
- The Crossings, FL,
- To cross a check,
- To cross the cudgels,
- To cross the line,
- To do a thing on the cross,
- To take up the cross,
- Victoria cross,
- Way of the cross,
- Weeping cross,
- Woods Cross,
- at cross purposes,
- calvary cross,
- celtic cross,
- cross bit,
- cross bun,
- cross calvary,
- cross dressing,
- cross examination,
- cross examine,
- cross eye,
- cross faults,
- cross grained,
- cross hair,
- cross hatching,
- cross infection,
- cross of lorraine,
- cross oneself,
- cross product,
- cross purposes,
- cross question,
- cross section,
- cross street,
- cross the Rubicon,
- cross thwart,
- cross vine,
- cross wire,
- crossed eye,
- crossed friar,
- crossing guard,
- dihybrid cross,
- double cross,
- jerusalem cross,
- level crossing,
- lorraine cross,
- monohybrid cross,
- navy cross,
- northern cross,
- noughts and crosses,
- pedestrian crossing,
- pelican crossing,
- reciprocal cross,
- school crossing,
- sign of the cross,
- star crossed,
- stations of the cross,
- zebra crossing,
- Beaver Crossing, NE,
- Congregation of the Holy Cross,
- Cross City, FL,
- Cross County, AR,
- Cross Hill, SC,
- Cross Lanes, WV,
- Cross Mountain, TX,
- Cross Plains, TN,
- Cross Plains, TX,
- Cross Plains, WI,
- Cross Roads, PA,
- Cross Roads, TX,
- Cross Timber, TX,
- Cross Timbers, MO,
- Cross botton'e,
- Cross estoil'e,
- Cross fitch'e,
- Cross-armed,
- Cross-banded,
- Cross-bearer,
- Cross-birth,
- Cross-bun,
- Cross-buttock,
- Cross-crosslet,
- Cross-days,
- Cross-examination,
- Cross-examine,
- Cross-examined,
- Cross-examiner,
- Cross-examining,
- Cross-eye,
- Cross-eyed,
- Cross-fertilize,
- Cross-fertilized,
- Cross-fertilizing,
- Cross-garnet,
- Cross-pawl,
- Cross-question,
- Cross-questioned,
- Cross-questioning,
- Cross-reading,
- Cross-spale,
- Cross-spall,
- Cross-springer,
- Cross-staff,
- Cross-stitch,
- Cross-stone,
- Cross-tail,
- Cross-tie,
- Cross-tining,
- Cross-vaulting,
- Cross-week,
- Halls Crossing, UT,
- Holy Cross, AK,
- Holy Cross, IA,
- Knights grand cross,
- La Crosse County,
- La Crosse, FL,
- La Crosse, KS,
- La Crosse, VA,
- La Crosse, WA,
- La Crosse, WI,
- Lowry Crossing, TX,
- Owens Cross Roads,
- Parallax of the cross wires,
- Saint Andrew's cross,
- Saint Anthony's cross,
- Saint George's cross,
- Saint Patrick's cross,
- Star-crossed,
- Stimson Crossing, WA,
- To be at cross-purposes,
- To cross one's path,
- To go cross lots,
- Woods Cross, UT,
- cross-check,
- cross-classification,
- cross-country,
- cross-cultural,
- cross-division,
- cross-dress,
- cross-dresser,
- cross-fertilisation,
- cross-fertilise,
- cross-fertilization,
- cross-file,
- cross-grained,
- cross-index,
- cross-legged,
- cross-linguistic,
- cross-linguistically,
- cross-link,
- cross-linkage,
- cross-linked,
- cross-linking,
- cross-match,
- cross-mate,
- cross-modal,
- cross-modality,
- cross-ply,
- cross-pollinate,
- cross-pollinating,
- cross-pollination,
- cross-purpose,
- cross-questioner,
- cross-refer,
- cross-reference,
- cross-section,
- cross-sectional,
- cross-sentential,
- cross-shaped,
- cross-town,
- distinguished flying cross,
- distinguished service cross,
- double-cross,
- double-crossing,
- half cross stitch,
- hot cross bun,
- nuclear cross section,
- st andrews's cross,
- st. andrew's cross,
- st. anthony's cross,
- test-cross,
- Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross,
- Cross-cut file,
- Holy-cross day,
- La Crosse County, WI,
- Owens Cross Roads, AL,
- cross double fitch'e,
- cross forked of three points,
- cross-country jumping,
- cross-country riding,
- cross-country skiing,
- cross-florida waterway,
- cross-leaved heath,
- crossed decussate intersectant intersecting,
- low st andrew's cross,
- crabbed crabby cross fussy fussbudgety grouchy grumpy bad-tempered ill-tempered