noun
- Traveling across.
- A shallow area in a stream that can be forded.
- synonyms: ford
- A point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect.
- A junction where one street or road crosses another.
- synonyms: intersection, crossroad, crossway, carrefour
- A path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad. can be crossed to get from one side to the other)
- Genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids.
- synonyms: hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing
- A voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean. )
verb
- Travel across or pass over.
- usage: "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"
- synonyms: traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across
- Meet at a point.
- Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.
- usage: "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
- Fold so as to resemble a cross.
- usage: "she crossed her legs"
- synonyms: cross
- To cover or extend over an area or time period.
- usage: "Rivers traverse the valley floor, "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries"
- Meet and pass.
- usage: "the trains crossed"
- synonyms: cross
- Trace a line through or across.
- usage: "cross your `t'"
- synonyms: cross
- Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties.
- usage: "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed"
- synonyms: crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed
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