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 cross·ing /ˈkrɔsɪŋ/
 橫斷,渡航,交叉點,渡口

 crossing
 交叉

 Cross, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crossed p. pr. & vb. n. Crossing.]
 1. To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms.
 2. To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t.
 3. To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.
    A hunted hare . . . crosses and confounds her former track.   -- I. Watts.
 4. To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. “Your kind letter crossed mine.”
 5. To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with.
    In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing.   --Shak.
    An oyster may be crossed in love.   -- Sheridan.
 6. To interfere and cut off; to debar. [Obs.]
    To cross me from the golden time I look for.   --Shak.
 7. To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.
 8. To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name.
 9. To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.
 To cross a check Eng. Banking, to draw two parallel transverse lines across the face of a check, with or without adding between them the words “and company”, with or without the words “not negotiable”, or to draw the transverse lines simply, with or without the words “not negotiable” (the check in any of these cases being crossed generally). Also, to write or print across the face of a check the name of a banker, with or without the words “not negotiable” (the check being then crossed specially). A check crossed generally is payable only when presented through a bank; one crossed specially, only when presented through the bank mentioned.
 To cross one's path, to oppose one's plans. --Macaulay.

 Cross·ing, n.
 1. The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean.
 2. The act of making the sign of the cross.
 3. The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.
 4. Intersection, as of two paths or roads.
 5. A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street, or a set of marks across the street pavement indicating that this is a designated location for pedestrians to cross.
 6. Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction.
    I do not bear these crossings.   --Shak.
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 crossing
      n 1: traveling across
      2: a shallow area in a stream that can be forded [syn: ford]
      3: a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
      4: a junction where one street or road crosses another [syn: intersection,
          crossroad, crossway, carrefour]
      5: a path (often marked) where something (as a street or
         railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
         [syn: crosswalk, crossover]
      6: (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties
         of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids [syn: hybridization,
          hybridisation, crossbreeding, cross, interbreeding,
          hybridizing]
      7: a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic
         Ocean)