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crosswalk
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crosswalk
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At First Avenue the crosswalk is blocked by a Con Ed van and an open manhole cover encircled by yellow rubber cones.
▪ If a child is killed crossing a dangerous street, a stop sign and crosswalk are put in place.
▪ Often, cars turning on to California or Pine would block the crosswalk, forcing pedestrians to weave between cars.
▪ Others, like Pearl Robbins, in her 70s, skipped their turn to cross until the crosswalk was clear of cars.
▪ Rally organizers with colored arm-bands link hands, forming a human chain at the crosswalks.
▪ The other day, I almost ran down an old man in a crosswalk.
▪ The X-shaped crosswalk painted in the middle of the central intersection is the city's heart.
▪ They put the device on 200 pennants suspended from utility poles, and paint it directly on crosswalks in the downtown area.
Wiktionary
crosswalk

n. 1 (context US English) Place where pedestrians can cross a street 2 (context computing English) A mapping between equivalent elements (fields) in multiple database schema vb. To relate / map equivalent elements (fields) in multiple database schema

WordNet
crosswalk

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

Wikipedia
Crosswalk (disambiguation)

A crosswalk is a provision for getting across an impediment (usually a road), from one path or walkway to another.

Crosswalk may also refer to:

  • In accounting and budget:
    • a table that shows the relationship between two other tables. In relational model theory, this is known as an associative entity.
    • a table used to control the allocation of funds
  • Schema crosswalk, in databases, a table that shows equivalent elements in more than one schema
  • Crosswalk.com, a Christian website

Usage examples of "crosswalk".

Crosswalks make so much sense, but laid between two ominous curbs they might as well be at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

It was as if the car had grown wings, letting us soar over the red lights and curbs and crosswalks.

It identified the magic associated with the flyway, and also the crosswalk cantrips, not all of which, as I've noted, are Christian by any means.

The tower itself could not be entered except by suspended crosswalks from the main Keep, or through two small doors from the courtyard.

Yelling stridently to make himself heard, he ordered all except the two highest crosswalks cut.

Makeshift crosswalks were thrown up over the courtyard, and hundreds of archers rushed across to help secure the tower.