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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CROSSING, ppr. Drawing; running or passing a line over; erasing; canceling; thwarting; opposing; counteracting; passing over.
CROSSING, n. A thwarting; impediment; vexation.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: traveling across
2: a shallow area in a stream that can be forded [syn: ford, crossing]
3: a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
4: a junction where one street or road crosses another [syn: intersection, crossroad, crossway, crossing, carrefour]
5: 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]
6: (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]
7: a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1575 1. the act or action of crossing: as a. a traversing or traveling across b. an opposing, blocking, or thwarting especially in an unfair or dishonest manner 2. a. a place or structure (as on a street or over a river) where pedestrians or vehicles cross; especially crosswalk b. the place in a cruciform church where the transept crosses the nave c. a place where a railroad track crosses a street

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a place where things (esp. roads) cross. 2 a place at which one may cross a street etc. (pedestrian crossing). 3 a journey across water (had a smooth crossing). 4 the intersection of a church nave and transepts. 5 Biol. mating. Phrases and idioms: crossing over Biol. an exchange of genes between homologous chromosomes (cf. RECOMBINATION).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cross Cross, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crossed (kr?st; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. Crossing.] 1. To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms. 2. To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t. 3. To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream. A hunted hare . . . crosses and confounds her former track. -- I. Watts. 4. To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. ``Your kind letter crossed mine.'' --J. D. Forbes. 5. To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with. In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing. --Shak. An oyster may be crossed in love. -- Sheridan. 6. To interfere and cut off; to debar. [Obs.] To cross me from the golden time I look for. --Shak. 7. To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself. 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. 9. To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of. To cross one's path, to oppose one's plans. --Macaulay.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Crossing Cross"ing, n. [See Cross, v. t. ] 1. The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean. 2. The act of making the sign of the cross. --Bp. Hall. 3. The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds. 4. Intersection, as of two paths or roads. 5. A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street. 6. Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction. I do not bear these crossings. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(crossings) 1. A crossing is a journey by boat or ship to a place on the other side of a sea, river, or lake. The vessel docked in Swansea after a ten-hour crossing. N-COUNT 2. A crossing is a place where two roads, paths, or lines cross. N-COUNT 3. A crossing is the same as a pedestrian crossing. (BRIT; in AM, use crosswalk) A car hit her on a crossing. N-COUNT see also pelican crossing, zebra crossing 4. A crossing is the same as a grade crossing or a level crossing. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Intersection.

Moby Thesaurus

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