| crossing | | |
| n. (act) | 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. |
| n. (object) | 2. crossing, ford | a shallow area in a stream that can be forded. |
| ~ 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. |
| n. (location) | 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" |
| n. (artifact) | 4. carrefour, crossing, crossroad, crossway, intersection | a junction where one street or road crosses another. |
| ~ 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. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. crossing, crossover, crosswalk | a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other. |
| ~ 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). |
| n. (act) | 6. cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding | (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids. |
| ~ mating, pairing, sexual union, coupling, union, 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. |
| n. (act) | 7. crossing | a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean). |
| ~ voyage | a journey to some distant place. |
| x | | |
| n. (quantity) | 1. 10, decade, ten, tenner, x | the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system. |
| ~ large integer | an integer equal to or greater than ten. |
| n. (communication) | 2. ex, x | the 24th letter of the Roman alphabet. |
| ~ latin alphabet, roman alphabet | the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe. |
| ~ alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter | the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech.; "his grandmother taught him his letters" |
| n. (artifact) | 3. adam, cristal, disco biscuit, ecstasy, go, hug drug, x, xtc | street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine. |
| ~ mdma, methylenedioxymethamphetamine | a stimulant drug that is chemically related to mescaline and amphetamine and is used illicitly for its euphoric and hallucinogenic effects; it was formerly used in psychotherapy but in 1985 it was declared illegal in the United States.; "MDMA is often used at parties because it enables partygoers to remain active for long periods of time" |
| adj. | 4. 10, ten, x | being one more than nine. |
| ~ cardinal | being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order.; "cardinal numbers" |
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