crossing

[kraw-sing, kros-ing]

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that crosses. cross.

2. a place where lines, streets, tracks, etc., cross each other.

3. a place at which a road, railroad track, river, etc., may be crossed. crossed.

4. hybridization; crossbreeding.

5. the act of opposing or thwarting; frustration; contradiction.

6. the intersection of nave and transept in a cruciform church.

7. Railroads.,  a track structure composed of four connected frogs, permitting two tracks to cross each other at grade with sufficient clearance for wheel flanges.

crossing

/ ˈkrɒsɪŋ /

noun

1. the place where one thing crosses another

2. a place, often shown by markings, lights, or poles, where a street, railway, etc, may be crossed

3. the intersection of the nave and transept in a church

4. the act or instance of travelling across something, esp the sea

5. the act or process of crossbreeding

Other Word Forms

• subcrossing noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of crossing¹

1375–1425; late Middle English. See cross, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

The truck had been going east on Bishop Street and making a turn on the roundabout when it hit the woman as she was crossing the street, authorities said.

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It’s a process that can take seven or eight years of crossing combinations and never knowing what you’ll get.

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Insisting she "would never use children as a weapon", Mahmood said she had a duty to get rid of reasons for putting children on dangerous small boats crossing the Channel.

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One elephant was spotted struggling to find a new path after using the location of the Ritz-Carlton as a crossing for more than a decade, Dapash said.

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In most vertebrates, this crossing transfers information from the right eye to the left side of the brain and vice versa.

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Related Words

• bridge 
• crossroad 
• intersection 
• junction 
• overpass 
• passage