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crossing   (TTS Sound)

The noun crossing has 7 senses

• crossing -- (traveling across)


• ford, crossing -- (a shallow area in a stream that can be forded)


• crossing -- (a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect)


• intersection, crossroad, crossway, crossing, carrefour -- (a junction where one street or road crosses another)


• 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)


• 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)


• crossing -- (a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean))

The 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")


• intersect, cross -- (meet at a 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")


• cross -- (fold so as to resemble a cross; "she crossed her legs")


• 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")


• cross -- (meet and pass; "the trains crossed")


• cross -- (trace a line through or across; "cross your `t'")


• 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")