Look up: crossing

1. Crossing
   Crossing is a decorating term referring to the distribution of paint evenly to a surface. In crossing, the paint is brushed on and then the brush taken across the work at a right angle to the direction of the previous stroke. With each stroke the pressure on the brush is reduced so as to eliminate brush marks.
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2. crossing
   Area of a church where the at nave, choir, and transept intersect.
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3. Crossing
   the area where the choir, nave, and transepts meet.
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4. crossing
   [n] - a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect 2. [n] - a path (often marked) where a street or railroad can be crossed 3. [n] - a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean) 4. [n] - traveling across
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5. Crossing
   Part of a church where the transepts cross the nave.
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6. crossing
   In architecture, the space formed in a cruciform church by the intersection of the east-west arm (nave and choir) with the north-south arm (transepts). In medieval churches it was often crowned...
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7. Crossing
   One rail crossing another on the same level.
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8. Crossing
   The central space at the junction of the nave, chancel and transepts of a cruciform church.
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9. crossing
   the fertilisation of the male gametes of one individual by the female gametes of another,whether in nature or artificially Category: Medicine • the intersection of two transport lines,guideways,railway tracks or highways,or of a railway track and a highway.Crossings may be at the same le...
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10. Crossing
    In a cruciform church, the area where the four arms of the cross meet. In many cruciform churches there is a tower over the crossing Related Words: Cruciform
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11. Crossing
    The space in a cruciform church formed by the intersection of the nave and the transept.
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12. Crossing
    The area in the centre of a cruciform church, where the east-west and north-south arms cross.
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13. Crossing
    Cross'ing noun [ See Cross , transitive verb ] 1. The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean. 2. The act of making the sign of the cross. Bp. Hall. 3. The ...
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14. crossing
    crosswalk noun a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
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15. crossing
    noun a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
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16. crossing
    noun a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
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17. Crossing
    • (v. t.) Intersection, as of two paths or roads. • (v. t.) The act of making the sign of the cross. • (v. t.) Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction. • (v. t.) The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean. • (v. t.) The act of interbreeding; a mixing o...
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18. Crossing
    The area of intersection in a Cruciform church, formed by joining the Nave, Transept & Chancel.
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19. crossing
    
    • a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
    • a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
    • the act of mixing different breeds of animals
    • meet at a point
    • hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
    • to cover a wide area
    • meet and pass
    • breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
    
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20. crossing
    the passage of a telecommunication line from one side of the electrical line to the other
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21. crossing
    A crossing is the result of breeding two Vitis vinifera plants. This is distinct from a hybrid which involves using American vines.
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22. Crossing
    Breeding horses of different pedigrees
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23. Crossing
    (physics) In quantum field theory, a branch of theoretical physics, `crossing` is the property of scattering amplitudes that allows antiparticles to be interpreted as particles going backwards in time. Crossing states that the same formula that determines the S-matrix elements and scattering ...
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24. Crossing
    (architecture) A `crossing`, in ecclesiastical architecture, is the junction of the four arms of a cruciform (cross-shaped) church. In a typically oriented church (especially of Romanesque and Gothic styles), the crossing gives access to the nave on the west, the transept arms on the north an...
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