1. A path (often marked) where something (as a street or railway) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
   "Pedestrians used the marked crossing to safely traverse the busy street";
   - crosswalk [N. Amer], crossover, pedestrian crossing
    
2. A junction where one street or road crosses another
   "They agreed to meet at the crossing near the old church";
   - intersection, crossroad, crossway [N. Amer], carrefour
    
3. A point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
   "The accident occurred at the crossing of two busy streets"
    
4. Travelling across
   "Their crossing of the desert took several gruelling days"
    
5. The shallow area of a river or stream where it can be crossed without a bridge
   "The pioneers used the natural crossing to ford the river";
   - ford
    
6. A voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
   "Their crossing of the Atlantic took seven days"
    
7. (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
   "crossing techniques have led to the development of many new crop varieties";
   - hybridization, hybridisation [Brit], crossbreeding, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing, hybridising [Brit]

1. Travel across or pass over
   "The caravan crossed almost 100 miles each day";
   - traverse, track, cover, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across
    
2. Meet or overlap with each other at a point
   "The roads cross under the bridge";
   - intersect
    
3. Meet and pass
   "the trains crossed"
    
4. To cover or extend over an area or time period
   "Rivers cross the valley floor";
   - traverse, span, sweep
    
5. Trace a line through or across
   "cross your ‘t’"; "dot your i's and cross your t's!"
    
6. Fold so as to resemble a cross
   "she crossed her legs"
    
7. Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
   "cross your opponent";
   - thwart, queer [informal], spoil, scotch, foil, frustrate, baffle, bilk [informal], scupper [informal]
    
8. Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
   "cross a horse and a donkey";
   - crossbreed, hybridize, hybridise [Brit], interbreed

Derived forms: crossings

Type of: body of water, breed, bump into, come across, conjugation, continue, coupling, cover, encounter, extend, fold, fold up, forbid, foreclose, forestall, junction, mating, meet, pairing, pass, path, point, preclude, prevent, run across, run into, see, sexual union, travel, traveling [US], travelling [Brit, Cdn], turn up, union, voyage, water, write

Antonym: uncross

Part of: road, route, stream, watercourse

Encyclopedia: Crossing, William