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crossing
(mass) | crossing
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crossing
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Crossing
(gcide) | Cross \Cross\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crossed (kr[o^]st; 115); p.
pr. & vb. n. Crossing.]
1. To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to
cross the arms.
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2. To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross
the letter t.
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3. To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move
over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.
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A hunted hare . . . crosses and confounds her former
track. -- I. Watts.
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4. To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the
same time. "Your kind letter crossed mine." --J. D.
Forbes.
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5. To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to
clash or interfere with.
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In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing.
--Shak.
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An oyster may be crossed in love. -- Sheridan.
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6. To interfere and cut off; to debar. [Obs.]
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To cross me from the golden time I look for. --Shak.
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7. To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the
reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.
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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.
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9. To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or
races; to mix the breed of.
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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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
To cross one's path, to oppose one's plans. --Macaulay.
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Crossing
(gcide) | Crossing \Cross"ing\, n. [See Cross, v. t. ]
1. The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of
the ocean.
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2. The act of making the sign of the cross. --Bp. Hall.
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3. The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.
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4. Intersection, as of two paths or roads.
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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.
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6. Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction.
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I do not bear these crossings. --Shak.
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crossing
(wn) | crossing
n 1: traveling across
2: a shallow area in a stream that can be forded [syn: ford,
crossing]
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, crossing,
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: crossing, 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,
crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing]
7: a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic
Ocean) |
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crossing
(mass) | crossing
- prechod |
border crossing
(encz) | border crossing,hraniční přechod |
crossing
(encz) | crossing,přechod |
crossing guard
(encz) | crossing guard, n: |
crossing over
(encz) | crossing over, n: |
crossings
(encz) | crossings,křížení n: pl. Zdeněk Brožcrossings,přejezdy n: pl. Zdeněk Brožcrossings,překročení n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
double-crossing
(encz) | double-crossing, n: |
grade crossing
(encz) | grade crossing,úrovňový přejezd Zdeněk Brož |
leg crossing
(encz) | leg crossing,křížení nohou n: noha přes nohu Pino |
level crossing
(encz) | level crossing, n: |
overcrossing
(encz) | overcrossing, n: |
pedestrian crossing
(encz) | pedestrian crossing, n: |
pelican crossing
(encz) | pelican crossing, n: |
school crossing
(encz) | school crossing, n: |
zebra crossing
(encz) | zebra crossing,přechod pro chodce n: [brit.] Cascaval |
Air crossing
(gcide) | Air \Air\ ([^a]r), n. [OE. air, eir, F. air, L. a["e]r, fr. Gr.
'ah`r, air, mist, for 'a[digamma]hr, fr. root 'a[digamma] to
blow, breathe, probably akin to E. wind. In sense 10 the
French has taking a meaning fr. It. aria atmosphere, air, fr.
the same Latin word; and in senses 11, 12, 13 the French
meaning is either fr. L. aria, or due to confusion with F.
aire, in an older sense of origin, descent. Cf. A["e]ry,
Debonair, Malaria, Wind.]
1. The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth;
the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid,
transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.
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Note: By the ancient philosophers, air was regarded as an
element; but modern science has shown that it is
essentially a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen, with a
small amount of carbon dioxide, the average proportions
being, by volume: oxygen, 20.96 per cent.; nitrogen,
79.00 per cent.; carbon dioxide, 0.04 per cent. These
proportions are subject to a very slight variability.
Air also always contains some vapor of water.
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2. Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile.
"Charm ache with air." --Shak.
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He was still all air and fire. [Air and fire being
the finer and quicker elements as opposed to earth and
water.] --Macaulay
.
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3. A particular state of the atmosphere, as respects heat,
cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as,
a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc.
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4. Any a["e]riform body; a gas; as, oxygen was formerly
called vital air. [Obs.]
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5. Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind.
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Let vernal airs through trembling osiers play.
--Pope.
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6. Odoriferous or contaminated air.
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7. That which surrounds and influences.
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The keen, the wholesome air of poverty.
--Wordsworth.
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8. Utterance abroad; publicity; vent.
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You gave it air before me. --Dryden.
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9. Intelligence; information. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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10. (Mus.)
(a) A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in
consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical
and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single
voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to
plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody;
a tune; an aria.
(b) In harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc.,
the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern
harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called
the air.
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11. The peculiar look, appearance, and bearing of a person;
mien; demeanor; as, the air of a youth; a heavy air; a
lofty air. "His very air." --Shak.
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12. Peculiar appearance; apparent character; semblance;
manner; style.
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It was communicated with the air of a secret.
--Pope.
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12. pl. An artificial or affected manner; show of pride or
vanity; haughtiness; as, it is said of a person, he puts
on airs. --Thackeray.
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14. (Paint.)
(a) The representation or reproduction of the effect of
the atmospheric medium through which every object in
nature is viewed. --New Am. Cyc.
(b) Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of
that portrait has a good air. --Fairholt.
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15. (Man.) The artificial motion or carriage of a horse.
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Note: Air is much used adjectively or as the first part of a
compound term. In most cases it might be written
indifferently, as a separate limiting word, or as the
first element of the compound term, with or without the
hyphen; as, air bladder, air-bladder, or airbladder;
air cell, air-cell, or aircell; air-pump, or airpump.
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Air balloon. See Balloon.
Air bath.
(a) An apparatus for the application of air to the body.
(b) An arrangement for drying substances in air of any
desired temperature.
Air castle. See Castle in the air, under Castle.
Air compressor, a machine for compressing air to be used as
a motive power.
Air crossing, a passage for air in a mine.
Air cushion, an air-tight cushion which can be inflated;
also, a device for arresting motion without shock by
confined air.
Air fountain, a contrivance for producing a jet of water by
the force of compressed air.
Air furnace, a furnace which depends on a natural draft and
not on blast.
Air line, a straight line; a bee line. Hence
Air-line, adj.; as, air-line road.
Air lock (Hydr. Engin.), an intermediate chamber between
the outer air and the compressed-air chamber of a
pneumatic caisson. --Knight.
Air port (Nav.), a scuttle or porthole in a ship to admit
air.
Air spring, a spring in which the elasticity of air is
utilized.
Air thermometer, a form of thermometer in which the
contraction and expansion of air is made to measure
changes of temperature.
Air threads, gossamer.
Air trap, a contrivance for shutting off foul air or gas
from drains, sewers, etc.; a stench trap.
Air trunk, a pipe or shaft for conducting foul or heated
air from a room.
Air valve, a valve to regulate the admission or egress of
air; esp. a valve which opens inwardly in a steam boiler
and allows air to enter.
Air way, a passage for a current of air; as the air way of
an air pump; an air way in a mine.
In the air.
(a) Prevalent without traceable origin or authority, as
rumors.
(b) Not in a fixed or stable position; unsettled.
(c) (Mil.) Unsupported and liable to be turned or taken
in flank; as, the army had its wing in the air.
on the air, currently transmitting; live; -- used of radio
and television broadcasts, to indicate that the images and
sounds being picked up by cameras and microphones are
being broadcast at the present moment.
Note: In call-in programs where individuals outside a radio
or television studio have telephoned into the station,
when their voice is being directly broadcast, the host
of the program commonly states "You're on the air." as
a warning that the conversation is not private.
To take air, to be divulged; to be made public.
To take the air, to go abroad; to walk or ride out.
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crossing guard
(gcide) | crossing guard \cross"ing guard`\, n.
a person who stands at a street crossing to assist children
to cross the street safely; -- usually used near schools
during the times that children are entering or leaving the
school.
Note: Crossing guards may be employed by a municipality as
auxiliary police officers, or may be unpaid volunteers.
Some wear uniforms, others do not. They are commonly
older citizens who are retired or not employed
full-time at other tasks. At some schools, older
students from the school are trained to perform the
function of crossing guards.
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Grade crossing
(gcide) | Grade \Grade\ (gr[=a]d), n. [F. grade, L. gradus step, pace,
grade, from gradi to step, go. Cf. Congress, Degree,
Gradus.]
1. A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order;
relative position or standing; as, grades of military
rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour.
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They also appointed and removed, at their own
pleasure,
teachers of every grade. --Buckle.
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2. In a railroad or highway:
(a) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation
from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually
stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise
or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy
grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in
264.
(b) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a
road; a gradient.
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3. (Stock Breeding) The result of crossing a native stock
with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than
three fourths of the better blood, it is called high
grade.
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At grade, on the same level; -- said of the crossing of a
railroad with another railroad or a highway, when they are
on the same level at the point of crossing.
Down grade, a descent, as on a graded railroad.
Up grade, an ascent, as on a graded railroad.
Equating for grades. See under Equate.
Grade crossing, a crossing at grade.
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Intercrossing
(gcide) | Intercross \In`ter*cross"\ (?; 115), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.
Intercrossed; p. pr. & vb. n. Intercrossing.]
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1. To cross each other, as lines.
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2. (Biol.) To fertilize by the impregnation of one species or
variety by another; to impregnate by a different species
or variety.
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overcrossing
(gcide) | overcrossing \overcrossing\ n.
a bridge designed for pedestrians.
Syn: footbridge, pedestrian bridge.
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crossing
(wn) | crossing
n 1: traveling across
2: a shallow area in a stream that can be forded [syn: ford,
crossing]
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, crossing,
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: crossing, 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,
crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing]
7: a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic
Ocean) |
crossing guard
(wn) | crossing guard
n 1: someone who helps people (especially children) at a traffic
crossing |
crossing over
(wn) | crossing over
n 1: the interchange of sections between pairing homologous
chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis [syn: {crossing
over}, crossover] |
double-crossing
(wn) | double-crossing
n 1: an act of betrayal; "he gave us the old double cross"; "I
could no longer tolerate his impudent double-crossing"
[syn: double cross, double-crossing] |
grade crossing
(wn) | grade crossing
n 1: intersection of a railway and a road on the same level;
barriers close road when trains pass [syn: {level
crossing}, grade crossing] |
level crossing
(wn) | level crossing
n 1: intersection of a railway and a road on the same level;
barriers close road when trains pass [syn: {level
crossing}, grade crossing] |
overcrossing
(wn) | overcrossing
n 1: a bridge designed for pedestrians [syn: footbridge,
overcrossing, pedestrian bridge] |
pedestrian crossing
(wn) | pedestrian crossing
n 1: street crossing where pedestrians have right of way; often
marked in some way (especially with diagonal stripes) [syn:
pedestrian crossing, zebra crossing] |
pelican crossing
(wn) | pelican crossing
n 1: an acronym for pedestrian light control; a pedestrian
crossing with traffic lights that are controlled by
pedestrians |
school crossing
(wn) | school crossing
n 1: a pedestrian crossing where school children cross a street
on the way to school |
zebra crossing
(wn) | zebra crossing
n 1: street crossing where pedestrians have right of way; often
marked in some way (especially with diagonal stripes) [syn:
pedestrian crossing, zebra crossing] |
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