crossing

1. 1.

   traveling across

   Broadertravel

   Narrowerfordtraversal
2. 2.

   a shallow area in a stream that can be forded

   Synonymsford

   Broaderbody of water

   Part ofstream
3. 3.

   a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect

   Broaderpoint
4. 4.

   a junction where one street or road crosses another

   Synonymsintersectioncrossroadcrosswaycarrefour

   Broaderjunction

   Narrowercornerlevel crossing

   Part ofroad
5. 5.

   a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other

   Synonymscrosswalkcrossover

   Broaderpath

   Narrowergrade separationpedestrian crossing
6. 6.

   (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids

   Synonymshybridizationhybridisationcrossbreedingcrossinterbreedinghybridizing

   Broadercoupling

   Narrowerdihybrid crossmonohybrid crossreciprocal crosstestcross

   genetics

7. 7.

   a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)

   Broadervoyage

Other forms of crossing

plural

crossings·

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.

Questions about crossing

What does crossing mean?

crossing means "traveling across". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crossing?

crossing has 2 syllables: cros-sing. The stress falls on "cros". In IPA it is /ˈkɹɔsɪŋ/.

What is another word for crossing?

Close synonyms include ford, intersection, crossroad, crossway, carrefour. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crossing a common word?

crossing is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.