/kɹɔˈsɪŋz/ - [krosingz] -
We found 3 definitions of crossings from 2 different sources.
NounPlural: crossings |
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crossing - traveling across | ||
traveling, travelling, travel the act of going from one place to another; "he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel" | ||
fording, ford the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse | ||
crossing - a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | ||
crosswalk, crossover | ||
path a way especially designed for a particular use | ||
grade separation a crossing that uses an underpass or overpass | ||
crossing - a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean) | ||
voyage a journey to some distant place | ||
crossing - a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect | ||
point sharp end; "he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"; "he broke the point of his pencil" | ||
crossing - (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | ||
hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing | ||
mating, sexual union, pairing, coupling, conjugation, union the act of grouping things or people in pairs | ||
genetic science, genetics the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms | ||
dihybrid cross hybridization using two traits with two alleles each | ||
monohybrid cross hybridization using a single trait with two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas) | ||
reciprocal cross, reciprocal hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype | ||
crossing - a junction where one street or road crosses another | ||
intersection, crossroad, crossway, carrefour | ||
junction an act of joining or adjoining things | ||
road, route a way or means to achieve something; "the road to fame" | ||
street corner, turning point, corner the intersection of two streets; "standing on the corner watching all the girls go by" | ||
crossing - a shallow area in a stream that can be forded | ||
ford | ||
body of water, water the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean); "they invaded our territorial waters"; "they were sitting by the water's edge" | ||
watercourse, stream a conduit through which water flows |