different between crossing vs crossling

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??s??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??s??/, (dated) /?k???s??/)
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?k??s??/
• Rhymes: -?s??, -??s??
• Rhymes: -?s??

Noun

crossing (plural crossings)

1. An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.
2. A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.
3. The act by which terrain or a road etc. is crossed.
4. A voyage across a body of water
5. (architecture) The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it
6. Movement into a crossed position.
   • 1989, Stephen N. Tchudi, Diana D. Mitchell, Explorations in the Teaching of English (page 270)

     For example, experts in kinesics — body language — recognize that a person sends out hundreds of nonverbal signals — eyebrow twitches, frowns, leg crossings and uncrossings — every second while he or she is speaking and listening.

7. (graph theory) A pair of intersecting edges.
8. A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque

Derived terms

• crossing keeper
• diamond crossing
• grade crossing
• level crossing

Translations

Adjective

crossing (not comparable)

1. (rare) Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction.

Verb

crossing

1. present participle of cross

References

• “crossing” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

Anagrams

• scorings, scorsing

English

Etymology

From cross +? -ling.

Noun

crossling (plural crosslings)

1. A cross between two types, varieties, races, or breeds; a blend; a hybrid.
   • 1913, Pacific Medical Journal:

     […] with only one or two exceptions, where the case was not quite clear, belonged to the homo Europaeus type, or were crosslings very near akin to that race. The same thing was proved in France and Spain, also of the more modern great men.

   • 1967, The Rubber Age:

     The ideal net work sought was one which contained only monosulfidic crosslings and lacked modification of the rubber chains by cyclic sulfide groups.

See also

• mixling