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cross·ing

(krô′sĭng, krŏs′ĭng)

1. The act or action of crossing.

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

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

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

4. Biology The process of crossbreeding; hybridization.

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crossing

(ˈkrɒsɪŋ)

1. the place where one thing crosses another

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

3. (Architecture) the intersection of the nave and transept in a church

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

5. (Breeds) the act or process of crossbreeding

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cross•ing

(ˈkrɔ sɪŋ, ˈkrɒs ɪŋ)

n.

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

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: a pedestrian crossing designated by white stripes.

4. hybridization; crossbreeding.

5. the act of opposing or thwarting.

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

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

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Noun	1.	crossing - traveling across travel, traveling, travelling - the act of going from one place to another; "he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel" fording, ford - the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse traversal, traverse - taking a zigzag path on skis
	2.	crossing - a shallow area in a stream that can be forded ford body of water, water - the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean); "they invaded our territorial waters"; "they were sitting by the water's edge" stream, watercourse - a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
	3.	crossing - a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect point - the precise location of something; a spatially limited location; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street"
	4.	crossing - a junction where one street or road crosses another carrefour, crossroad, crossway, intersection street corner, turning point, corner - the intersection of two streets; "standing on the corner watching all the girls go by" junction - the place where two or more things come together grade crossing, level crossing - intersection of a railway and a road on the same level; barriers close road when trains pass road, route - an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
	5.	crossing - a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other crosswalk, crossover grade separation - a crossing that uses an underpass or overpass path - a way especially designed for a particular use pedestrian crossing, zebra crossing - street crossing where pedestrians have right of way; often marked in some way (especially with diagonal stripes)
	6.	crossing - (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids crossbreeding, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding, cross mating, pairing, sexual union, union, coupling, conjugation - the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" dihybrid cross - hybridization using two traits with two alleles each monohybrid cross - hybridization using a single trait with two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas) reciprocal cross, reciprocal - hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype testcross, test-cross - a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring genetic science, genetics - the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms
	7.	crossing - a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean) voyage - a journey to some distant place

crossing

adjective

Situated or lying across:

crosswise, thwart, transversal, transverse, traverse.

Translations

رِحْلـة بَحْريّـهعُبُورمَعْـبَـر

přeplavbakřižovatkapřechodpřejezd

overfartovergangsørejse

Kreuzung Überfahrt Furt

διάβαση

cruce travesía

ylikulkutie

traversée carrefour intersection métissage passage

prijelaz

átkeléskeresztezõdés

gangbrautsigling, sjóferî

incrocio traversata valico crociata

交差点

횡단로

oversteek

gangfelt kryssing overfart overgang planovergang

skrzyżowanie

travessia

пересечение пересечение моря

plavba cez more

prehod za pešce

överfart

การข้าม

geçitdeniz yolculuğu

đi tàu sang biển bên kia

十字路口横渡渡海旅行

crossing

[ˈkrɒsɪŋ]

A. N

1. (esp by sea) → travesía f

2. (= road junction) → cruce m; (= pedestrian crossing) → paso m de peatones; (= level crossing) → paso m a nivel
cross at the crossing → crucen en el paso de peatones

B. CPD crossing guard N (US) persona encargada de ayudar a los niños a cruzar la calle
crossing point N → paso m; (at border) → paso m fronterizo

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

crossing

[ˈkrɒsɪŋ] n

(= journey by boat) → traversée f
the crossing from Dover to Calais → la traversée de Douvres à Calais

(for pedestrians, across road) → passage m clouté; (across railway line) → passage m à niveau

(= junction) (across railway line, road) → croisement mcrossing point n (across road, border) → point m de passage; (across river) → gué mcross-legged [ˌkrɒsˈlɛgd]

adv [sit] → en tailleur

adj [person] → assis(e) en tailleur

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

crossing

(= act) → Überquerung f; (= sea crossing) → Überfahrt f

(= crossing place) → Übergang m; (= crossroads) → Kreuzung f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

crossing

[ˈkrɒsɪŋ] n (sea-passage) → traversata; (of equator) → attraversamento; (road junction) → incrocio, crocicchio (also pedestrian crossing) → strisce fpl pedonali, passaggio pedonale; (level crossing) → passaggio a livello
cross at the crossing → attraversare sulle strisce

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

cross²

(kros) – plural ˈcrosses – noun

1. a symbol formed by two lines placed across each other, eg + or x.

2. two wooden beams placed thus (+), on which Christ was nailed.

3. the symbol of the Christian religion.

4. a lasting cause of suffering etc. Your rheumatism is a cross you will have to bear.

5. the result of breeding two varieties of animal or plant. This dog is a cross between an alsatian and a labrador.

6. a monument in the shape of a cross.

7. any of several types of medal given for bravery etc. the Victoria Cross.

verb

1. to go from one side to the other. Let's cross (the street); This road crosses the swamp.

2. (negative uncross) to place (two things) across each other. He sat down and crossed his legs.

3. to go or be placed across (each other). The roads cross in the centre of town.

4. to meet and pass. Our letters must have crossed in the post.

5. to put a line across. Cross your `t's'.

6. to make (a cheque or postal order) payable only through a bank by drawing two parallel lines across it.

7. to breed (something) from two different varieties. I've crossed two varieties of rose.

8. to go against the wishes of. If you cross me, you'll regret it!

cross-

1. going or placed across. cross-winds; cross-pieces.

2. of mixed variety. a cross-breed.

ˈcrossing noun

1. a place where a road etc may be crossed. a pedestrian-crossing; a level-crossing.

2. a journey over the sea. I was seasick as it was a very rough crossing.

ˈcrossbow noun

a medieval type of bow fixed to a shaft with a mechanism for pulling back and releasing the string.

ˈcross-breed noun

an animal bred from two different breeds.

ˈcross-bred adjective

ˌcrossˈcheck verb

to check information, calculations etc by using different sources or a different method.

noun

the act of crosschecking.

cross-ˈcountry adjective

across fields etc, not on roads. a cross-country run.

ˌcross-country ˈskiing noun

the sport of skiing with narrow skis across the countryside, through woods etc.

ˌcross-exˈamine verb

in a court of law, to test or check the previous evidence of (a witness) by questioning him.

ˈcross-exˌamiˈnation noun

ˌcross-ˈeyed adjective

having a squint.

ˈcross-fire noun

the crossing of lines of gunfire from two or more points.

at cross-purposes

of two or more people, confused about what they are saying or doing because of misunderstanding one another. I think we're talking at cross-purposes.

ˌcross-reˈfer verb

to give a cross-reference (to). In this dictionary went is cross-referred to go.

ˌcross-ˈreference noun

a reference from one part of a book, list etc to another, eg crept see creep.

ˈcrossroads noun singular

a place where two or more roads cross or meet. At the crossroads we'll have to decide which road to take.

ˌcross-ˈsection noun

1. (a drawing etc of) the area or surface made visible by cutting through something, eg an apple.

2. a sample as representative of the whole. He interviewed a cross-section of the audience to get their opinion of the play.

crossword (puzzle)

a square word-puzzle in which the blanks in a pattern of blank and solid checks are to be filled with words reading across and down, the words being found from clues.

cross one's fingers

to place a finger across the one next to it, for good luck.

cross out

to draw a line through. He crossed out all her mistakes.

crossing

→ عُبُور přeplavba overfart Kreuzung διάβαση cruce , travesía ylikulkutie traversée prijelaz traversata 交差点 횡단로 oversteek overgang skrzyżowanie travessia пересечение моря överfart การข้าม geçit đi tàu sang biển bên kia 横渡

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'The monarchs of Iran and Turan sent him some very rare birds;' and, continues the courtly historian, 'His Majesty by crossing the breeds, which method was never practised before, has improved them astonishingly.' About this same period the Dutch were as eager about pigeons as were the old Romans.

The improvement is by no means generally due to crossing different breeds; all the best breeders are strongly opposed to this practice, except sometimes amongst closely allied sub-breeds.

In plants the same gradual process of improvement, through the occasional preservation of the best individuals, whether or not sufficiently distinct to be ranked at their first appearance as distinct varieties, and whether or not two or more species or races have become blended together by crossing, may plainly be recognised in the increased size and beauty which we now see in the varieties of the heartsease, rose, pelargonium, dahlia, and other plants, when compared with the older varieties or with their parent-stocks.

As soon, however, as gardeners picked out individual plants with slightly larger, earlier, or better fruit, and raised seedlings from them, and again picked out the best seedlings and bred from them, then, there appeared (aided by some crossing with distinct species) those many admirable varieties of the strawberry which have been raised during the last thirty or forty years.

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In crossing the rivers I can well believe that the difficulty may be very great: at this season there was little trouble, but in the summer they must be very hazardous.

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23 the Russian troops were crossing the river Enns.

They'll be fired on at the crossing. And why are they dawdling there?"

Then came the distant report of a shot, and our troops could be seen hurrying to the crossing.

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To risk the crossing under their eyes would have meant undoubted capture.

She had almost completed the crossing when they came in sight of her.

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[Rising and crossing R., front of him.] Don't stir, I am merely going to finish my flowers.

[Rising and crossing stage to C.] We are only married two years.

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