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Noun crossing has 7 senses
- crossing - traveling across
--1 is a kind of travel, traveling, travelling
--1 has particulars: ford, fording; traversal, traverse
- ford, crossing - a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
--2 is a kind of body of water, water
--2 is a part of stream, watercourse
- crossing - a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
--3 is a kind of point
- intersection, crossroad, crossway, crossing, carrefour - a junction where one street or road crosses another
--4 is a kind of junction
--4 is a part of road, route
--4 has particulars:
- crossing, crosswalk, crossover - a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
--5 is a kind of path
--5 has particulars: grade separation; pedestrian crossing, zebra crossing
- hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing - (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
--6 is a kind of coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union
--6 has particulars:
- crossing - a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
--7 is a kind of voyage
Verb cross has 8 senses
- traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across - travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"
--1 is one way to pass, go through, go across
Sample sentence:
These men cross the river
- intersect, cross - meet at a point
--2 is one way to meet, ran into, encounter, run across, come across, see
Sample sentences:
Our properties cross at this point
His fields cross mine at this point
- thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk - hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
--3 is one way to prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot cross Sue
- cross - fold so as to resemble a cross; "she crossed her legs"
--4 is one way to fold, fold up, turn up
Antonyms: uncross
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- cross, traverse, span, sweep - to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries"
--5 is one way to cover, extend
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- cross - meet and pass; "the trains crossed"
--6 is one way to intersect, cross
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- cross - trace a line through or across; "cross your `t'"
--7 is one way to write
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed - breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed"
--8 is one way to breed
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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