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say it: KRAW-sing
crossing is a noun meaning "traveling across". It is pronounced /ˈkɹɔsɪŋ/ — KRAW-sing. It carries 7 recorded senses.
a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
a junction where one street or road crosses another
a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
genetics
a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for crossing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.