Word Finder - crossing

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To make or form a cross.

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To move relatively.

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(social) To oppose.

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To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.

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They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.

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To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.

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An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.

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A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.

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The act by which terrain or a road etc. is crossed.

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A voyage across a body of water

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The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it

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Movement into a crossed position.

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A pair of intersecting edges.

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A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque

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Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction.

I warned her about crossing the line.

The men were crossing themselves.

School crossing guards offer better protec­tion.

If she had been alone, she might have taken a chance crossing the field, but not with Jonathan.

Jenn asked, crossing her arms.

Darian watched him, gauging the emotions crossing his features.

She dressed and grabbed a comb from her locker, crossing to the mirror above the sinks.

She searched his face before relenting and crossing to the door.

She calmed further, another emotion soon crossing her gaze.

Taran watched the tormented emotions crossing Vara's eyes.

I wonder if this is what it was like for the pioneers crossing the prairie.

Jessi went to the door, crossing her arms at the weird charge around the kid named Jonny.

After randomly crossing paths with someone whose mind he couldn't penetrate, he'd suddenly found her in his house.

Xander looked at her again, a flicker of something she thought might be cunning crossing his features.

Damian asked, crossing his arms.

He entered the mortal realm a year before without knowing the fates of any of the other Original Beings, before crossing paths with Jule, the Original Immortal, and Eden, the Original Human.

The western Mediterranean is cut off by a bank crossing the narrow strait between Sicily and Cape Bon, usually known as the Adventure Bank, on which the depth is nowhere 200 fathoms. The mean depth of the western basin is estimated at 881 fathoms, and the deepest sounding recorded is 2040 fathoms. In the eastern Mediterranean the mean depth is nearly the same as in the western basin.

The crossing is surmounted by a dome, and the extremity of the north transept by a fine square tower over 160 ft.

On the outbreak of war in 1859 he was placed in command of the Alpine infantry, defeating the Austrians at Casale on the 8th of May, crossing the Ticino on the 23rd of May, and, after a series of victorious fights, liberating Alpine territory as far as the frontier of Tirol.

Messina fell on the 10th of July, but Garibaldi, instead of crossing to Calabria, secretly departed for Aranci Bay in Sardinia, where Bertani was fitting out an expedition against the papal states.

Crossing the Orange River at this spot in September 1848, Sir Harry noted that it was "a beautiful site for a town," and in the May following the town was founded.

Siamese cats may have the tail either straight or kinked, but whether the latter feature belongs of right to the breed, or has been acquired by crossing with the ordinary black and tabby kink-tailed cats of the country, is not known.

Caesar occupied it in 49 B.C. after his crossing of the Rubicon.

After crossing the Hydra - 6 tes (Ravi) he once more came into contact with hostile tribes, and the work of storming petty towns began again.

The finer particles of clay in the line of the joint are washed away, while the sandy particles, which nearly all natural clays contain, remain behind and form a constantly deepening porous vein of sand crossing the base of the puddle.

The spy reported that the French, after crossing the bridge at Vienna, were advancing in immense force upon Kutuzov's line of communication with the troops that were arriving from Russia.

This soldier was looking at the cathedral and crossing himself.

He looked up, a surprised expression crossing his face, as if he'd told her something he wasn't supposed to.

He hugged her, a darker thought crossing his mind as he held her and their child close.

Damian turned down the stereo blasting trance music and faced her, crossing his arms as she closed the door.

If she closed her eyes, she would see the black memories crossing through his mind, but she allowed him his privacy.

Damian asked, crossing to his desk.

Dusty studied him, an odd look crossing his face.

Jule nodded, a dark look crossing his features.

She waved her band in front of the access pad to her room and entered, crossing to grab her sketch book.

Surprised, she hesitated before crossing to him.

Effie looked up, a broad smile crossing her face.

Dean, crossing his fingers at being on a roll, decided to ask about the death of Shipton's son.

He'd found her voice soothing and enjoyed talking to her when he was her Guardian, enough so that he'd looked forward to their paths crossing.

Brady met her gaze again, taking in the array of emotions crossing her features.

He reached out with one hand and lifted her chin before crossing his hands behind his back.

She looked at him hard for a moment before crossing the room to sit on the chair across from him.

No one makes it onto the bank with the security the feds installed to keep us Easterners from crossing, he said with a shake of his head.

He'd spent his life relatively alone, crossing between the underworld and human world as needed.  Death had been far from co-dependent, and he'd had free rein.  Until two days ago, when he crossed into the underworld with Katie slung across his shoulder.  He'd forgotten what it was to have someone completely dependent on him.

She frowned, a ripple of something else crossing her pale features.

It is a mighty river, rising in the Rocky Mountains, and crossing eighteen degrees of longitude.

In January 1535 he entered the river Plate, where he followed the northern shore to the island of San Gabriel, and then crossing over he landed by a little stream, still called Riachuelo.

The city is built with its streets running between the cardinal points of the compass and crossing each other at right angles.

At or near the tower Hananeel the wall turned south along the east side of the Tyropoeon valley, and then again westward, crossing the valley at a point probably near the remarkable construction known as Wilson's arch.

He finds near kinsmen for them in the Ainus of Japan, the Khmers and Chams of Cambodia and among some of the Micronesian islanders who, in spite of much crossing, still exhibit marked Caucasic types.