crossing
noun
[ ˈkrɒsɪŋ ]
• a place where roads or railway lines cross.
• "a stream of cars was waiting for the railway crossing barriers to be opened"
• a place at which one may safely cross something, especially a street.
• "we were thirty yards from the crossing when a man stepped off the pavement"
• the action of crossing something.
• "the crossing of the Pennines"
• crossbreeding.
cross
verb
• go or extend across or to the other side of (an area, stretch of water, etc.).
• "she has crossed the Atlantic twice"
Similar:
travel across,
go across,
cut across,
make one's way across,
traverse,
range over,
tramp over,
wander over,
negotiate,
navigate,
cover,
span,
bridge,
arch,
ford,
extend across,
stretch across,
pass over,
arch over,
vault over,
• pass in an opposite or different direction; intersect.
• "the two lines cross at 90°"
• draw a line or lines across; mark with a cross.
• "voters should ask one question before they cross today's ballot paper"
• (of a person) make the sign of the cross in front of one's chest as a sign of Christian reverence or to invoke divine protection.
• "Beatie crossed herself quickly at the mention of the dead"
• pass (the ball) across the field towards the centre when attacking.
• "he could not get to the line to cross the ball"
• cause (an animal of one species, breed, or variety) to breed with one of another species, breed, or variety.
• "many animals of the breed were crossed with the closely related Guernsey"
• oppose or stand in the way of (someone).
• "no one dared cross him"
Similar:
oppose,
resist,
defy,
thwart,
frustrate,
foil,
obstruct,
impede,
hinder,
hamper,
block,
check,
deny,
contradict,
argue with,
quarrel with,
stand up to,
take a stand against,
take issue with,
put up a fight against,
set one's face against,
fly in the face of,
gainsay,
controvert,
Origin:
late Old English (in the sense ‘monument in the form of a cross’): from Old Norse kross, from Old Irish cros, from Latin crux .
