| 单词 | crossing |
| 释义 | crossing (once / 217 pages) 1n 2n 3n 4n WORD FAMILY crossing: crossings, overcrossing+/cross: crossed, crosser, crossest, crossing, crossly, crossness, uncross/crossed: intercrossed/uncross: uncrossed, uncrosses, uncrossing USAGE EXAMPLESNintendo is planning mobile versions of its popular “Fire Emblem” and “Animal Crossing” games. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Spanish officials said about 1,100 migrants attempted the crossing. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) Maduro abruptly closed Venezuela’s border with Brazil and Colombia on multiple occasions last year, ordering the crossings reopened with just as little notice. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect Hyper point the precise location of something; a spatially limited location 2n a junction where one street or road crosses another 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper carrefour, crossroad, crossway, intersection corner, street corner, turning point the intersection of two streets grade crossing, level crossingintersection of a railway and a road on the same level; barriers close road when trains pass blind cornera street corner that you cannot see around as you are driving junction the place where two or more things come together 1n a shallow area in a stream that can be forded Syn|Hyper ford body of water, water the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean) 2n a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other Syn|Hypo|Hyper crossover, crosswalk grade separation a crossing that uses an underpass or overpass pedestrian crossing, zebra crossingstreet crossing where pedestrians have right of way; often marked in some way (especially with diagonal stripes) pelican crossingan acronym for pedestrian light control; a pedestrian crossing with traffic lights that are controlled by pedestrians school crossinga pedestrian crossing where school children cross a street on the way to school path a way especially designed for a particular use 3n traveling across 3Hypo|Hyper ford, fording the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse traversal, traversetaking a zigzag path on skis shallow fordingfording at a shallow place deep fordingfording at a deep place in the stream travel, traveling, travelling the act of going from one place to another n a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean) 4Hyper voyage a journey to some distant place n (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids Syn|Hypo|Hyper cross, crossbreeding, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding dihybrid cross hybridization using two traits with two alleles each monohybrid crosshybridization using a single trait with two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas) reciprocal, reciprocal crosshybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype test-cross, testcrossa 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 conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes |
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