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   crossing

   /ˈkrɒsɪŋ/

   noun

   • 1. a place where roads or railway lines cross: "a stream of cars was waiting for the railway crossing barriers to be opened" Similar junctioncrossroadsintersectioninterchangelevel crossingmotorway junctionrailway junction
   • ▪ the intersection of a church nave and the transepts: "the cathedral has a lantern tower over the crossing"
   • 2. a place at which one may safely cross something, especially a street: "we were thirty yards from the crossing when a man stepped off the pavement" Similar street crossingBritish:pedestrian crossingzebra crossingpelican crossinginformal:the green man
   • ▪ a place at which one may cross a border between countries: "a border crossing"
   • 3. the action of crossing something: "the crossing of the Pennines"
   • ▪ a journey across water in a ship: "a short ferry crossing" Similar traversaltraversepassagevoyagejourneycruisesail
   • 4. crossbreeding.

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