English dictionary
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English noun: crossing | |||
| 1. | crossing (act) traveling across | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | travel, traveling, travelling | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | ford, fording, traversal, traverse | ||
| 2. | crossing (object) a shallow area in a stream that can be forded | ||
| Synonyms | ford | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | body of water, water | ||
| Part meronym | stream, watercourse | ||
| 3. | crossing (location) a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | point | ||
| 4. | crossing (artifact) a junction where one street or road crosses another | ||
| Synonyms | carrefour, crossroad, crossway, intersection | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | junction | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | corner, grade crossing, level crossing, street corner, turning point | ||
| Part meronym | road, route | ||
| 5. | crossing (artifact) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | ||
| Synonyms | crossover, crosswalk | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | path | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | grade separation, pedestrian crossing, zebra crossing | ||
| 6. | crossing (act) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | ||
| Synonyms | cross, crossbreeding, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | dihybrid cross, monohybrid cross, reciprocal, reciprocal cross, test-cross, testcross | ||
| Domain category | genetic science, genetics | ||
| 7. | crossing (act) a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean) | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | voyage | ||
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