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Crossing

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act or action of crossing.

n. A place at which roads, lines, or tracks intersect; an intersection.

n. A place at which a river, railroad, or highway, for example, may be crossed: a railroad crossing; a pedestrian crossing.

n. The intersection of the nave and transept in a cruciform church.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross

n. A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed

n. A voyage across a body of water

n. The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it

adj. Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act by which anything is crossed.

n. The act of making the sign of the cross.

n. The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.

n. Intersection, as of two paths or roads.

n. A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street, or a set of marks across the street pavement indicating that this is a designated location for pedestrians to cross.

n. Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of passing across something: as, the crossing of the Atlantic.

n. Intersection: as, the crossing of bars in latticework.

n. The place at which a road, ravine, mountain, river, etc., is or may be crossed or passed over: as, the crossings of streets.

n. In railroads, the necessary arrangement of rails to form a communication from one track-way to the other.

n. The act of opposing or thwarting; contradiction.

n. The act of making the sign of the cross: as, with many protestations and crossings.

n. The act or process of cross-breeding or cross-fertilizing: hybridization.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. traveling across

n. a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other

n. a shallow area in a stream that can be forded

n. a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)

n. a junction where one street or road crosses another

n. a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect

n. (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids

Word Usage

"He wants to aggressively grab the most interesting software technology the labs is working on and herd it as quickly as possible into new products if it shows potential -- what he calls crossing the chasm from applications to products."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

water body of water voyage point

Cross Reference

opposition crossway movable-point crossing reciprocal crossing grade crossing

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

contradiction thwarting obstruction

Verb Stem

cross

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

tossing

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

overpass embankment