crossing
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- noun
- /ˈkrɔsɪŋ/
:
cruce (carretera/frontera)
- The ferry service makes the crossing between the islands every hour.
- border crossing
- illegal crossing
- make a crossing
You you're all soaking, whether it's crossing rivers or just sweating.
- You you're all soaking, whether it's crossing rivers or just sweating.
- Something physically restrain him from crossing into an open door, a barrier.
- So the practice of the the act of crossing the room is a practice.
- The vision board would be Lewis crossing the arms on the metal.
Examples
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A long, winding bus journey and a ferry crossing brought me to the main island of Eysturoy.
Academic text (1995) -
Earhart and top-notch ace Bill Stultz have to get airborne-- quite a feat once their plane is fully loaded for the Atlantic crossing.
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The army was so large the crossing took five days.
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Was it a rough crossing?
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I'm packing this for the crossing.
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Be careful crossing streets
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I think half the millionaires in America have booked passage on this crossing.
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A lorry-load of construction men packed up for the crossing and the duty-free.
Fiction book (1998) -
After a relatively smooth 80-minute crossing to the island, we addressed our first challenge: getting ashore.
Academic text (2001) -
The nuns there have been organising crossings into Switzerland.
Synonyms
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A journey by ship from one place to another
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A movement across a slope or area to go from one side to the other
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Movement across or through a place
A route or way used to go from one place to another
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
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A place where a road crosses train tracks at the same level with gates or signals
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A place on the road with wide white stripes where people walking can cross and cars must stop
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An exchange of genes between matching chromosomes during cell division that makes sperm and egg cells
A place where a road and train tracks cross at the same level with barriers that close for trains
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Crossing comes from the verb cross, which means 'to go from one side to the other', and you can see the same idea in across, so a crossing is the act of moving across something.