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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crossing
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a border crossing (=a place where you cross a border)
▪ There are problems of delays at border crossings.
grade crossing
level crossing
pedestrian crossing
pelican crossing
railroad crossing
zebra crossing
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
illegal
▪ Border Patrol officials say the tactic discourages illegal border crossings.
▪ Besides limiting legal immigrants, it would address the problem of an estimated 300, 000 illegal border crossings each year.
▪ He relays the discovery to another agent who just finished looking for signs of illegal crossings at the end of the road.
level
▪ Some semaphores still survive - at Caersws and the Llanidloes Road level crossing.
▪ Caersws station, Llanidloes road level crossing and one crossing up near Criccieth remain semaphore operated.
▪ However one hopes that speeds over level crossings will be increased to get the maximum benefit.
new
▪ These projects include an improvement to the A13 - the main east-west road - and a new east-London river crossing.
▪ The parish council were not altogether happy with the road layout around the new pelican crossing, Mr. Hobbs reported.
■ NOUN
border
▪ Other agreements were concluded concerning border crossings, agricultural, scientific and cultural co-operation, recognition of educational qualifications and road transport.
▪ The two cities also are trying to make their united voice felt in the planning of border crossings.
▪ Law enforcement officials consider it the most corrupt of six border crossings in Arizona.
▪ Naturalization Service inspectors search for drugs at border crossings in the Southwest.
Border Patrol officials say the tactic discourages illegal border crossings.
▪ Besides limiting legal immigrants, it would address the problem of an estimated 300, 000 illegal border crossings each year.
ferry
▪ Price includes ferry crossing and insurance.
▪ Several ferry crossings and jetfoil crossing daily.
▪ The price includes half-board hotel accommodation, touring bike and return ferry crossing.
▪ Prices include ferry crossings on Sally Ferries from Ramsgate to Dunkirk.
▪ Prices start from £366 per week for a property that sleeps four, including return ferry crossing.
▪ Details of your outboard and inbound ferry crossing will be included in your travel documentation.
grade
▪ The figure could also be reduced by concentrating on those grade crossings where the benefit relative to cost is greatest.
▪ The city and its suburbs have some 2, 000 public grade crossings, 268 with whistle bans.
pedestrian
▪ The tramway station is now effectively a traffic island, surrounded by a one-way system and linked by pedestrian crossings. 3.
▪ The second concern was the shortage of pedestrian crossings.
▪ There will be a tree lined pedestrianised square, new public toilets, pedestrian crossings and an open space for special events.
▪ She made her way across the road at a pedestrian crossing, and stood in front of City Hall.
▪ They called it a pedestrian crossing, but it wasn't built for people.
▪ O'Neill doesn't seem capable of answering questions, and Landless wouldn't stop for me on a pedestrian crossing.
▪ Secondary distributor roads have no speed signs, but are interrupted by frequent pedestrian crossings of traditional design.
▪ We were approaching a big road junction where there was a controlled Pedestrian crossing.
river
▪ Two small valleys left an isolated hill where a castle was built to defend the river crossing.
▪ The Triborough Bridge was reported to be slow because of potholes while traffic on the other East River crossings was moving.
▪ Schomberg dismissed William's plan, to force the river crossing, as too dangerous but the normally cautious king overruled him.
▪ These projects include an improvement to the A13 - the main east-west road - and a new east-London river crossing.
▪ Others include an excavator for working in marshland, and a catamaran for excavating river crossings.
▪ Magdalene Bridge For centuries successive bridges at Magdalene Street provided the city's principal river crossing.
▪ She had seen Guy fight before at the river crossing, but then he had been quick and efficient.
road
▪ A flagman was stationed at the road crossing.
sea
▪ There is a discernible, almost romantic frisson about a sea crossing, nomatterhow short.
▪ The sea crossing served only to emphasise the idyll we left behind.
▪ It is the first spit of land visible to incoming birds after a considerable sea crossing.
▪ Work was now a day's climbing, as well as a sea crossing away and all but forgotten.
zebra
▪ Crossing roads is always frightening at first, and the patient may have to relearn how to use pelican and zebra crossings.
▪ The zebra crossings are faded to near invisibility and pedestrians look astonished to be allowed to cross by them.
▪ Driving home one night at about 11 o'clock, through a fairly rough area, I stopped at a zebra crossing.
▪ Maybe a zebra crossing could be placed here? 4.
▪ Having assisted an old woman at a zebra crossing, I was granted three wishes.
■ VERB
make
▪ That ford was going to make but a difficult crossing.
▪ He made two crossings through Andersonstown to familiarise them with the work which they would have to do.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ His party made the first east-west crossing of the Sierra Nevada in 1833.
▪ The crossing from Dover to Calais is often very rough.
▪ The crossing took over two weeks.
▪ The Atlantic crossing took nearly three months.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ About two-thirds of all collisions at state public crossings actually occur where everything is functioning properly.
▪ Border Patrol officials say the tactic discourages illegal border crossings.
▪ Protein/reporter combinations were generated by crossing transformants.
▪ The tramway station is now effectively a traffic island, surrounded by a one-way system and linked by pedestrian crossings. 3.
▪ There are 167, 000 crossings nationwide.
▪ There will be a tree lined pedestrianised square, new public toilets, pedestrian crossings and an open space for special events.
▪ Therefore any individual stops which will be required at single pelican crossings etc., will have no effect on charging.
▪ To become foot-sure and fearless in such tightrope bridge crossings, he practiced on easier ones a few inches above the ground.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crossing

Crossing \Cross"ing\, n. [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, or a set of marks across the street pavement indicating that this is a designated location for pedestrians to cross.

  6. Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction.

    I do not bear these crossings.
    --Shak.

Crossing

Cross \Cross\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crossed (kr[o^]st; 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 in love. -- 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 stocks or races; to mix the breed of.

    To cross a check (Eng. Banking), to draw two parallel transverse lines across the face of a check, with or without adding between them the words ``and company'', with or without the words ``not negotiable'', or to draw the transverse lines simply, with or without the words ``not negotiable'' (the check in any of these cases being crossed generally). Also, to write or print across the face of a check the name of a banker, with or without the words ``not negotiable'' (the check being then crossed specially). A check crossed generally is payable only when presented through a bank; one crossed specially, only when presented through the bank mentioned. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

    To cross one's path, to oppose one's plans.
    --Macaulay.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
crossing

1530s, "a marking with a cross," verbal noun from cross (v.). From 1570s as "action of passing across;" 1630s as "place where (a river, a road, etc.) is crossed;" from 1690s as "intersection" (originally of streets). Meaning "action of crossing out by drawing crossed lines through" is from 1650s. Crossing-gate is from 1876.

Wiktionary
crossing
  1. (context rare English) extend or lying across; in a crosswise direction. n. 1 An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross 2 A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed 3 A voyage across a body of water 4 (context architecture English) The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it 5 Movement into a crossed position. v

  2. (present participle of cross English)

WordNet
crossing
  1. n. traveling across

  2. a shallow area in a stream that can be forded [syn: ford]

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

  4. a junction where one street or road crosses another [syn: intersection, crossroad, crossway, carrefour]

  5. a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other [syn: crosswalk, crossover]

  6. (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids [syn: hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing]

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

Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Crossing

Crossing may refer to:

Crossing (2007 film)

Crossing is a 2007 Canadian independent feature film starring Sebastian Spence, Crystal Buble, Bif Naked and Fred Ewanuick. From the writer/director team of Roger Evan Larry and Sandra Tomc.

Crossing (album)

Crossing is an album by American world music/ jazz group Oregon featuring Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless, Glen Moore, and Collin Walcott which was recorded in 1984 and released on the ECM label. This was the final album recorded with Walcott, released after his death in November 1984.

Crossing (physics)

In quantum field theory, a branch of theoretical physics, crossing is the property of scattering amplitudes that allows antiparticles to be interpreted as particles going backwards in time.

Crossing states that the same formula that determines the S-matrix elements and scattering amplitudes for particle A to scatter with X and produce particle B and Y will also give the scattering amplitude for $\scriptstyle \mathrm{A}+\bar{\mathrm{B}}+\mathrm{X}$ to go into Y, or for $\scriptstyle \bar{\mathrm{B}}$ to scatter with $\scriptstyle \mathrm{X}$ to produce $\scriptstyle \mathrm{Y}+\bar{\mathrm{A}}$. The only difference is that the value of the energy is negative for the antiparticle.

The formal way to state this property is that the antiparticle scattering amplitudes are the analytic continuation of particle scattering amplitudes to negative energies. The interpretation of this statement is that the antiparticle is in every way a particle going backwards in time.

Crossing was already implicit in the work of Feynman, but came to its own in the 1950s and 1960s as part of the analytic S-matrix program.

Crossing (architecture)

A crossing, in ecclesiastical architecture, is the junction of the four arms of a cruciform (cross-shaped) church.

In a typically oriented church (especially of Romanesque and Gothic styles), the crossing gives access to the nave on the west, the transept arms on the north and south, and the choir, as the first part of the chancel, on the east.

The crossing is sometimes surmounted by a tower or dome. A large crossing tower is particularly common on English Gothic cathedrals. With the Renaissance, building a dome above the crossing became popular. Because the crossing is open on four sides, the weight of the tower or dome rests heavily on the corners; a stable construction thus required great skill on the part of the builders. In centuries past, it was not uncommon for overambitious crossing towers to collapse. Sacrist Alan of Walsingham's octagon, built between 1322 and 1328 after the collapse of Ely's nave crossing on 22 February 1322, is the "... greatest individual achievement of architectural genius at Ely Cathedral" according to architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner.

A tower over the crossing may be called a lantern tower if it has openings through which light from outside can shine down to the crossing.

In Early Medieval churches, the crossing square was often used as a module, or a unit of measurement. The nave and transept would have lengths that were a certain multiple of the length of the crossing square. This was to ensure that the church was properly proportioned.

Crossing (2008 film)

Crossing (also known as Keurosing) is a 2008 South Korean film directed by Kim Tae-kyun. It has been selected as South Korea's submission to the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The film follows the journey of a North Korean man as he illegally leaves the country to find medicine for his sick wife, portraying the many hardships of the average North Korean citizen. The film had 907,255 admissions in South Korea.

The politics of North Korea in this film are left behind and are mainly in the background. Instead it concentrates more on the life of the average North Korean, such as the hardship in an impoverished state and the fear of getting caught and being persecuted in North Korea. Subtle themes include religion, which runs through the film, as Yong Soo hopes that his son comes back safely, as well as football which is a way in connecting the North Koreans to the outside world.

Usage examples of "crossing".

It was comforting to realize that this river had been crossing Absarokee hunting ground since before they had horses.

The road was as straight as a shot of grain alcohol, and the jackrabbits, well, each individual rabbit had the right to make his or her own choice when it came to crossing the path of an onrushing Airstream turkey.

The Akkadian raft-keepers clapped and cheered, shouting encouragements, seemingly unfazed by the crossing.

Then Alberta James went off - stage, Hubbard crossing to the door with her, an arm around her shoulders.

Capetus, Tiberinus, who, being drowned in crossing the river Albula, gave it a name famous with posterity.

I could now, that that man driving a European sports car rather too fast through the main highway nexus was probably a supporter of the Citizens of Vados, and that consequently the long-faced Amerind lighting a candle and crossing himself before the wall shrine in the market was prepared to hate him on principle.

SAS Radisson Hotel in downtown Amman, the border crossings from Jordan into Israel, and two Christian holy sites, at a time when all these locations were likely to be thronged with American and other tourists.

I found the Cossacks in the villages of that gorge in the greatest excitement, because thousands and thousands of fallow deer were crossing the Amur where it is narrowest, in order to reach the lowlands.

If I succeed in crossings new Cattleya, I plan to call it the Cicely Angleton after my wife.

A fair example of a transatlantic convoy crossing in June 1942 and of the comparatively slight improvement in antisubmarine warfare to that time, is furnished by the story of Convoy ONS-102, from Londonderry to Halifax.

Massawa, brought up to Asmara by train, and then for them to complete the long slow crossing of the Danakil.

I was glad, as I had not been very happy crossing the Voldan Ocean from Karis to Auris in the ancient crate that Gompth had furnished us.

On it lay a figure so heavily draped in copper ornament that Adica could barely make out that she had hair and features beneath a headdress of beaten copper, a broad pectoral, armbands, bracelets and a wide waistband worked into the shape of two axheads crossing.

He opened the gate from the saddle, and they passed through, crossing the barranco, and stopping for a moment to look at the pigs and talk with the herdsman.

Its mud walls were braced with crossing timbers as big as a full-grown man, and its ceiling was formed from whole basswood logs mounted on brackets.