crossing
Americannoun
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the act of a person or thing that crosses.
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a place where lines, streets, tracks, etc., cross each other.
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a place at which a road, railroad track, river, etc., may be crossed.
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hybridization; crossbreeding.
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the act of opposing or thwarting; frustration; contradiction.
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the intersection of nave and transept in a cruciform church.
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Railroads. a track structure composed of four connected frogs, permitting two tracks to cross each other at grade with sufficient clearance for wheel flanges.
noun
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the place where one thing crosses another
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a place, often shown by markings, lights, or poles, where a street, railway, etc, may be crossed
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the intersection of the nave and transept in a church
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the act or instance of travelling across something, esp the sea
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the act or process of crossbreeding
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Rwanda, which is just across the border from the Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu, has closed crossing points.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
In the 15th century, the Danish monarchy started collecting “sound dues” on ships crossing the Baltic Sea passing through Øresund, a narrow strait between the port towns of Helsingor and Helsingborg.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
The “wormhole” interpretation emerged decades after Einstein and Rosen’s work, when physicists speculated about crossing from one side of spacetime to the other, most notably in the late-1980s research.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
The authorities there have temporarily suspended flights, buses and all other public transport crossing the border as a result of the outbreak.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
“Have them now, while they’re still a little warm,” she says, as if we’re having a picnic on the beach instead of crossing the sea to go to Spain.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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