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CROSSING
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I. (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 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)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
Synonyms:
cross; crossbreeding; crossing; hybridisation; hybridization; hybridizing; interbreeding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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 4
Meaning:
A path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
Synonyms:
crossing; crossover; crosswalk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
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 5
Meaning:
A junction where one street or road crosses another
Synonyms:
carrefour; crossing; crossroad; crossway; intersection
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
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 6
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 7
Meaning:
A shallow area in a stream that can be forded
Synonyms:
crossing; ford
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb cross
Context examples:
This may be due to the motion of the host star plowing through the interstellar medium, like the bow wave from a boat crossing a lake.
(Hubble Finds Huge System of Dusty Material Enveloping the Young Star HR 4796A, NASA)
I found that he had been in command of a whaler which was due to return from the Arctic seas at the very time when my father was crossing to Norway.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There she still sat when Alleyne reached the crossing.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Be guarded in crossing the London streets, for I am told that the hackney coaches are past all imagining.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But he made straight for the door, crossing the roadway to save time; and as he came, he drew a key from his pocket like one approaching home.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
An anatomic structure formed by the crossing of the two optic nerves under the hypothalamus.
(Optic chiasm, NCI Thesaurus)
The researchers recreated this genomic merger by crossing the two ancient peanuts species and analyzing the results in seven generations of offspring plants.
(Peanut Genome Sequenced with Unprecedent Accuracy, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Lipid-soluble metoprine is capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier.
(Metoprine, NCI Thesaurus)
If the mutineers succeeded in crossing the stockade, he argued, they would take possession of any unprotected loophole and shoot us down like rats in our own stronghold.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The field of ice is almost a league in width, but I spent nearly two hours in crossing it.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
