CROSSING
crossing
(noun) traveling across
crossing
(noun) a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing
(noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
crossing, crosswalk, crossover
(noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
intersection, crossroad, crossway, crossing, carrefour
(noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another
crossing
(noun) a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
ford, crossing
(noun) a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
crossing (plural crossings)
An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.
A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.
The act by which terrain or a road etc. is crossed.
A voyage across a body of water
(architecture) The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it
Movement into a crossed position.
(graph theory) A pair of intersecting edges.
A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque
Adjective
crossing (not comparable)
(rare) Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction.
Verb
crossing
present participle of cross
Anagrams
• scorings, scorsing
Source: Wiktionary
Cross"ing, n. Etym: [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.
CROSS
Cross (krs; 115), n. Etym: [OE. crois, croys, cros; the former fr.
OF. crois, croiz, F. croix, fr. L. crux; the second is perh. directly
fr. Prov. cros, crotz. fr. the same L. crux; cf. Icel. kross. Cf.
Crucial, Crusade, Cruise, Crux.]
1. A gibbet, cosisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely
upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal
piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was
anciently used in the execution of criminals.
Nailed to the cross By his own nation. Milton.
2. The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink,
etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of
Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a
Christian people, and of Christendom.
The custom of making the sign of the cross with the hand or finger,
as a means of conferring blessing or preserving from evil, is very
old. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
Before the cross has waned the crescent's ray. Sir W. Scott.
Tis where the cross is preached. Cowper.
3. Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial;
disappointment; opposition; misfortune.
Heaven prepares a good man with crosses. B. Jonson.
4. A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also, that
side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in
general.
I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no
money in your purse. Shak.
5. An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross; a
badge or ornamental device of the general shape of a cross; hence,
such an ornament, even when varying considerably from that form;
thus, the Cross of the British Order of St. George and St. Michael
consist of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it.
6. (Arch.)
Definition: A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted bu a cross,
set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross;
Charing Cross in London.
Dun-Edin's Cross, a pillared stone, Rose on a turret octagon. Sir W.
Scott.
7. (Her.)
Definition: A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties.
See the Illustration, above.
8. The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those
unable to write.
Five Kentish abbesses . . . .subscribed their names and crosses.
Fuller.
9. Church lands. [Ireland] [Obs.] Sir J. Davies.
10. A line drawn across or through another line.
11. Hence: A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle
breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.
Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul
Jones and Jeremy Diddler. Lord Dufferin.
12. (Surveying)
Definition: An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main
course.
13. (Mech.)
Definition: A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually
form's right angle. Cross and pile, a game with money, at which it is
put to chance whether a coin shall fall with that side up which bears
the cross, or the other, which is called pile, or reverse; the game
called heads or tails.
– Cross bottony or bottoné. See under Bottony.
– Cross estoilé (Her.). a cross, each of whose arms is pointed like
the ray of a star; that is, a star having four long points only.
– Cross of Calvary. See Calvary, 3.
– Southern cross. (Astron.) See under Southern.
– To do a thing on the cross, to act dishonestly; -- opposed to
acting on the square. [Slang] -- To take up the cross, to bear
troubles and afflictions with patience from love to Christ.
Cross (krs), a.
1. Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique;
intersecting.
The cross refraction of the second prism. Sir I. Newton.
2. Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting;
adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse. "A cross fortune." Jer.
Taylor.
The cross and unlucky issue of my design. Glanvill.
The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvelously cross to the
common experience of mankind. South.
We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross, One must be
happy by the other's loss. Dryden.
3. Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfullness, or
ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.
He had received a cross answer from his mistress. Jer. Taylor.
4. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually
inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as
when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation
to each other. Cross action (Law), an action brought by a party who
is sued against the person who has sued him, upon the same subject
matter, as upon the same contract. Burrill.
– Cross aisle (Arch.), a transept; the lateral divisions of a
cruciform church.
– Cross axie. (a) (Mach.) A shaft, windlass, or roller, worked by
levers at opposite ends, as in the copperplate printing press. (b) A
driving axle. with cranks set at an angle of 90º with each other.
– Cross bedding (Geol.), oblique lamination of horizontal beds, --
Cross bill. See in the Vocabulary.
– Cross bitt. Same as Crosspiece.
– Cross bond, a form of bricklaying, in which the joints of one
stretcher course come midway between those of the stretcher courses
above and below, a course of headers and stretchers intervening. See
Bond, n., 8.
– Cross breed. See in the Vocabulary.
– Cross breeding. See under Breeding.
– Cross buttock, a particular throw in wrestling; hence, an
unexpected defeat or repulse. Smollet.
– Cross country, across the country; not by the road. "The cross-
country ride." Cowper.
– Cross fertilization, the fertilization of the female products of
one physiological individual by the male products of another, -- as
the fertilization of the ovules of one plant by pollen from another.
See Fertilization.
– Cross file, a double convex file, used in dressing out the arms
or crosses of fine wheells.
– Cross fire (Mil.), lines of fire, from two or more points or
places, crossing each other.
– Cross forked. (Her.) See under Forked.
– Cross frog. See under Frog.
– Cross furrow, a furrow or trench cut across other furrows to
receive the water running in them and conduct it to the side of the
field.
– Cross handle, a handle attached transversely to the axis of a
tool, as in the augur. Knight.
– Cross lode (Mining), a vein intersecting the true or principal
lode.
– Cross purpose. See Cross-purpose, in the Vocabulary.
– Cross reference, a reference made from one part of a book or
register to another part, where the same or an allied subject is
treated of.
– Cross sea (Naut.), a chopping sea, in which the waves run in
contrary directions.
– Cross stroke, a line or stroke across something, as across the
letter t.
– Cross wind, a side wind; an unfavorable wind.
– Cross wires, fine wires made to traverse the field of view in a
telescope, and moved by a screw with a graduated head, used for
delicate astronomical observations; spider lines. Fixed cross wires
are also used in microscopes, etc.
Syn.
– Fretful; peevish. See Fretful.
Cross, prep.
Definition: Athwart; across. [Archaic or Colloq.] A fox was taking a walk
one night cross a village. L'Estrange. To go cross lots, to go across
the fields; totake a short cut. [Colloq.]
Cross, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crossed (krst; 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. "Your kind letter crossed mine." 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 onlove. 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 stoocks or races; to
mix the breed of. To cross one's path, to oppose one's plans.
Macualay.
Cross, v. i.
1. To lie or be athwart.
2. To move or pass from one side to the other, or from place to
place; to make a transit; as, to cross from New York to Liverpool.
3. To be inconsistent. [Obs.]
Men's actions do not always cross with reason. Sir P. Sidney.
4. To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.
If two individuals of distinct races cross, a third is invariably
produced different from either. Coleridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition