crossing

cross·ing  (krôsng, krsng)

n.

1. The act or action of crossing.

2.

a. A place at which roads, lines, or tracks intersect; an intersection.

b. A place at which a river, railroad, or highway, for example, may be crossed: a railroad crossing; a pedestrian crossing.

3. The intersection of the nave and transept in a cruciform church.

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crossing

Noun

1. a place where a street, railway, or river may be crossed

2. the place where one thing crosses another

3. a journey across water

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	crossing - traveling across                     travel, traveling, travelling - 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 traversal, traverse - taking a zigzag path on skis
	2.	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" stream, watercourse - a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
	3.	crossing - a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect point - the precise location of something; a spatially limited location; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street"
	4.	crossing - a junction where one street or road crosses another carrefour, crossroad, crossway, intersection street corner, turning point, corner - the intersection of two streets; "standing on the corner watching all the girls go by" junction - the place where two or more things come together grade crossing, level crossing - intersection of a railway and a road on the same level; barriers close road when trains pass road, route - an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
	5.	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 grade separation - a crossing that uses an underpass or overpass path - a way especially designed for a particular use pedestrian crossing, zebra crossing - street crossing where pedestrians have right of way; often marked in some way (especially with diagonal stripes)
	6.	crossing - (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids crossbreeding, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding, cross mating, pairing, sexual union, union, coupling, conjugation - the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" 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 test-cross, testcross - a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring genetic science, genetics - the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms
	7.	crossing - a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean) voyage - a journey to some distant place

Translations

crossing [ˈkrɔsɪŋ] n (on road) → cruce m;

(RAIL) → paso a nivel (= sea passage); travesía;

(also: pedestrian crossing) → paso de peatones

crossing [ˈkrɔsɪŋ] cross n → croisement m, carrefour m (= sea passage); traversée f;

(also: pedestrian crossing) → passage clouté;

how long does the crossing take? → combien de temps dure la traversée?

crossing [ˈkrɔsɪŋ] cross n → Überfahrt f;

(also: pedestrian crossing) → Fußgängerüberweg m

crossing [ˈkrɔsɪŋ] n → incrocio (= sea-passage); traversata;

(also: pedestrian crossing) → passaggio pedonale