Crossing
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To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 9. To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of. [1913 Webster] To cross a check (Eng. Banking), to draw two parallel transverse lines across the face of a check, with or without adding between them the words "and company", with or without the words "not negotiable", or to draw the transverse lines simply, with or without the words "not negotiable" (the check in any of these cases being crossed generally). Also, to write or print across the face of a check the name of a banker, with or without the words "not negotiable" (the check being then crossed specially). A check crossed generally is payable only when presented through a bank; one crossed specially, only when presented through the bank mentioned. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] To cross one's path, to oppose one's plans. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] Crossing \Cross"ing\, n. [See Cross, v. t. ] 1. The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean. [1913 Webster] 2. The act of making the sign of the cross. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] 3. The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds. [1913 Webster] 4. Intersection, as of two paths or roads. [1913 Webster] 5. 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. [1913 Webster +PJC] 6. Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction. [1913 Webster] I do not bear these crossings. --Shak. [1913 Webster]  crossing 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)  crossing [krɔsiŋ] Kreuzung; Überfahrt; Übergang  crossing fajkeresztezôdés gyalogátkelôhely keresztbeporzás keresztcsévélés keresztezés keresztezôdés kitérô légáthidalás metszôdés vasútiátjáró vezeték-keresztezés váltó áthaladás átkelés útkeresztezôdés  crossing Kreuzung f; Straßenkreuzung f crossing Kreuzung f [biol.] crossing Nervenbahnenkreuzung f [anat.] crossing Überfahrt f crossing Übergang m crossing Überquerung f; Durchquerung f crossing kreuzend; durchquerend crossing überquerend crossing verschränkend  128 Moby Thesaurus words for "crossing": abjuration, abjurement, abrogation, absolute contradiction, annulment, approach, asymptote, bottleneck, bucking, carrefour, challenge, cloverleaf, collision course, commutation, concentralization, concentration, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congress, contention, contradiction, contraposition, contrary assertion, contravention, contraversion, controversion, convergence, converging, counteraction, countering, counterworking, course, crossbreeding, crosscurrent, crosspoint, crossroad, crosswalk, crossway, crosswise, cruise, denial, disaffirmation, disallowance, disavowal, disclaimer, disclamation, disownment, disproof, flyover, focalization, focus, forswearing, funnel, gainsaying, globe-trotting, going, grade crossing, head wind, hub, hybridism, hybridization, impugnation, impugnment, interbreeding, intercrossing, intersection, journeying, leg, level crossing, locomotion, meeting, miscegenation, mongrelism, motion, movement, moving, mutual approach, narrowing gap, negation, nullification, ocean trip, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnation, overcrossing, overpass, passage, progress, radius, rebutment, rebuttal, recantation, refusal, refutation, rejection, renunciation, repudiation, resistance, retractation, retraction, revocation, rotary, run, sail, sea trip, shakedown cruise, spokes, standing against, tangent, thwart, tourism, touristry, traffic circle, traject, trajet, transit, transversal, travel, traveling, traversal, traverse, undercrossing, undercurrent, viaduct, voyage Crossing related |
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