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Crossing   /krˈɔsɪŋ/   Listen
Crossing

noun
1.
Traveling across.
2.
A shallow area in a stream that can be forded.  Synonym: ford.
3.
A point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect.
4.
A junction where one street or road crosses another.  Synonyms: carrefour, crossroad, crossway, intersection.
5.
A path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other.  Synonyms: crossover, crosswalk.
6.
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids.  Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding.
7.
A voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean).


Cross

verb
(past & past part. crossed; pres. part. crossing)
1.
Travel across or pass over.  Synonyms: cover, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse.
2.
Meet at a point.  Synonym: intersect.
3.
Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.  Synonyms: baffle, bilk, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart.  "Foil your opponent"
4.
Fold so as to resemble a cross.  Antonym: uncross.
5.
To cover or extend over an area or time period.  Synonyms: span, sweep, traverse.  "The parking lot spans 3 acres" , "The novel spans three centuries"
6.
Meet and pass.
7.
Trace a line through or across.
8.
Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties.  Synonyms: crossbreed, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed.  "Mendel tried crossbreeding" , "These species do not interbreed"



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"Crossing" Quotes from Famous Books



... leaving Mr. Follet, had not gone out into the street, but crossing the lawn into the driveway he went past the stable to the wood back of the house from whence he had come so many years ago. His mind and heart were in a tumult. He scarcely thought where he was going till he suddenly became conscious that he was in the old wood where he had rescued Nancy ...
— The Boy from Hollow Hut - A Story of the Kentucky Mountains • Isla May Mullins
... traveling in Europe on business, nor her aunt, Mrs. Thatcher Forbes, in whose charge she had been left. Ostensibly she had been going to visit the Westerleys, that was all: Mrs. Forbes's misgivings as to a twenty-year-old girl crossing the continent alone had been unavailing against ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... you take this pillow from my head, and put another blanket on my feet, and fix the fire, and give me some water, or something? Oh, dear, dear!—" groaned poor Rose Lincoln, as with aching head and lungs, she did penance for her imprudence in crossing the wet, slippery street in thin slippers ...
— The English Orphans • Mary Jane Holmes
... STANDARD TIME COMMERCIAL MAPS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA—showing all the Counties, Railroads, and Principal Towns up to date. This comprehensive map embraces all the country from the Pacific Coast to Eastern New Brunswick, and as far north as the parallel of 52 deg., crossing Hudson's Bay. British Columbia; Manitoba, with its many new settlements; and the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, completed and under construction, are accurately and distinctly delineated. It extends so far south as to Include Key West and more ...
— Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. - A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside • Various
... swim? Quite the contrary: it is a delightful and invigorating exercise. Only you must not imagine you are thereby armed against fate. Swimming for amusement is as different from swimming for life as yachting on the Thames is from crossing the Atlantic. ...
— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill


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