crossing : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: crossing	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for crossing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
crossing n traveling across a shallow area in a stream that can be forded Synonym(s): ford, crossing a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect a junction where one street or road crosses another Synonym(s): intersection, crossroad, crossway, crossing, carrefour a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other Synonym(s): crossing, crosswalk, crossover (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids Synonym(s): hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crossing \Cross"ing\, n. [See {Cross}, v. t. ] 1. The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean. 2. The act of making the sign of the cross. --Bp. Hall. 3. The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds. 4. Intersection, as of two paths or roads. 5. A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street. 6. Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction. I do not bear these crossings. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cross \Cross\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crossed} (kr?st; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crossing}.] 1. To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms. 2. To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t. 3. To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream. A hunted hare . . . crosses and confounds her former track. -- I. Watts. 4. To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. [bd]Your kind letter crossed mine.[b8] --J. D. Forbes. 5. To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with. In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing. --Shak. An oyster may be crossed in love. -- Sheridan. 6. To interfere and cut off; to debar. [Obs.] To cross me from the golden time I look for. --Shak. 7. To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself. 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. 9. To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of. {To cross one's path}, to oppose one's plans. --Macaulay.