CROSSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crossing mean? 

• CROSSING (noun)
  The noun CROSSING has 7 senses:

1. traveling across

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

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

4. a junction where one street or road crosses another

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

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

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

  Familiarity information: CROSSING used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROSSING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Traveling across

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("crossing" is a kind of...):

travel; traveling; travelling (the act of going from one place to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crossing"):

ford; fording (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)

Derivation:

cross (travel across or pass over)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A shallow area in a stream that can be forded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

crossing; ford

Hypernyms ("crossing" is a kind of...):

body of water; water (the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean))

Holonyms ("crossing" is a part of...):

stream; watercourse (a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("crossing" is a kind of...):

point (the precise location of something; a spatially limited location)

Derivation:

cross (meet at a point)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A junction where one street or road crosses another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

carrefour; crossing; crossroad; crossway; intersection

Hypernyms ("crossing" is a kind of...):

junction (the place where two or more things come together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crossing"):

corner; street corner; turning point (the intersection of two streets)

grade crossing; level crossing (intersection of a railway and a road on the same level; barriers close road when trains pass)

Holonyms ("crossing" is a part of...):

road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)

Derivation:

cross (meet at a point)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

crossing; crossover; crosswalk

Hypernyms ("crossing" is a kind of...):

path (a way especially designed for a particular use)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crossing"):

grade separation (a crossing that uses an underpass or overpass)

pedestrian crossing; zebra crossing (street crossing where pedestrians have right of way; often marked in some way (especially with diagonal stripes))

Derivation:

cross (travel across or pass over)

Sense 6

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cross; crossbreeding; crossing; hybridisation; hybridization; hybridizing; interbreeding

Hypernyms ("crossing" is a kind of...):

conjugation; coupling; mating; pairing; sexual union; union (the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes)

Domain category:

genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crossing"):

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; reciprocal cross (hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype)

test-cross; testcross (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)

Derivation:

cross (breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties)

Sense 7

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("crossing" is a kind of...):

voyage (a journey to some distant place)

Derivation:

cross (travel across or pass over)

 Context examples 

Swept away by the creative impulse, he got off the electric car, without vexation, two blocks beyond his crossing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The passenger turned his face away, at the same time putting out his two fingers and crossing himself.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Tumor spread in continuity beyond the original site of growth without crossing the midline.

(Evans Stage II, NCI Thesaurus)

The hoarse shriek of a locomotive whistling a crossing told him where he was.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Developed in Denmark by crossing native pigs with the Large White pig breed.

(Landrace Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

It is merely crossing, said Mr. Micawber, trifling with his eye-glass, merely crossing.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As I passed the corner which leads from Bentinck Street on to the Welbeck Street crossing a two-horse van furiously driven whizzed round and was on me like a flash.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Females obtained from the screening were used to breed future generations by crossing them to unselected males.

(AB Zebrafish, NCI Thesaurus)

A bundle of nerve fibers crossing from one side to the other side of the brain or spinal cord.

(Commissure, NCI Thesaurus)

This is its last major crossing en route to becoming the first probe to make a close encounter with distant Pluto on July 14, 2015.

(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)