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US
/ˈkɹɔsɪŋ/
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[ UK /kɹˈɒsɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈɒsɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
- a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
- traveling across
- a junction where one street or road crosses another
- a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
How To Use crossing In A Sentence
- Reports of a youth on the line at a level crossing yesterday sparked an alert on the railways.
- This involved crossing a part of the line where there were several sidings and branch lines, on which a good deal of pushing of trucks and carriages to and fro -- that is "shunting" -- was going on. The Iron Horse
- They kept to the brush and trees, and invariably the man halted and peered out before crossing a dry glade or naked stretch of upland pasturage. War
- Absorbing and retracing my history, memories of the special, never forgotten days, when our family made the crossing over the lagoon to the hummocks beyond.
- Evelyn answered, crossing her arms across her chest, as if daring her mother to challenge her.
- A 15-year-old boy was killed in front of his father and brother when a speeding stolen car ploughed into him on a pedestrian crossing.
- It's an hour after sunrise on day three of the photographic safari and a solitary vulture is crossing a flat sky. Times, Sunday Times
- They were going to the pelican crossing, but stepped off the kerb because they were frightened by a dog on the pavement.
- The congested, hypertense crossing point of the River Jordan, between Jordan "proper" and the Israeli-held West Bank, is to this day known as the Allenby Bridge, after T.E. Lawrence's commander. The Perils of Partition
- A young girl and her little brother were seriously hurt when a car ploughed into them on a crossing.