crossings
Where paths meet
Crossings are places where paths, roads, or routes intersect or where passage from one side to another is possible: pedestrian crossings, railroad crossings, border crossings.
The word also names instances of traversing something: Atlantic crossings, river crossings.
A crossing can be perilous or routine depending on what's being crossed and under what conditions.
Ocean bordering Europe
- PacificEarth's vastest ocean
- channelPassage for transmission
- ferryVessel for scheduled crossings
- oceanMassive saltwater body
sea · strait · passage · sailing · transatlantic · maiden · perilous · rough
Traditional practices or import taxes
- immigrationRelocating abroad permanently
- checkpointInspection station on route
- frontierEdge of settlement
- passportGovernment-issued travel credential
visa · patrol · smuggling · asylum · refugee · barrier · demarcation · control
Point of beginning
- passageSegment of text
- milestoneNotable event marking progress
- riteCeremonial act or practice
- liminalAt a threshold
transformation · watershed · bridge · shift · metamorphosis · pivotal · coming-of-age · initiation
Movement along routes
- stoplightIntersection flow controller
- crosswalkMarked street-crossing zone
- pedestriansPeople traveling on foot
- junctionPoint where things meet
signal · yield · corner · right-of-way · gridlock · lanes · jaywalking · overpass
Atlantic
Ocean bordering Europe
ocean · sea · strait · passage · sailing · transatlantic · maiden · perilous · rough · calm
customs
Traditional practices or import taxes
- immigrationRelocating abroad permanently
- checkpointInspection station on route
- frontierEdge of settlement
passport · visa · patrol · smuggling · asylum · refugee · barrier · demarcation · control · entry
threshold
Point of beginning
liminal · transformation · watershed · bridge · shift · metamorphosis · pivotal · coming-of-age · initiation · graduation
traffic
Movement along routes
- stoplightIntersection flow controller
- crosswalkMarked street-crossing zone
- pedestriansPeople traveling on foot
junction · signal · yield · corner · right-of-way · gridlock · lanes · jaywalking · overpass · underpass
interchange
Reciprocal transfer between parties
mesh · grid · infrastructure · junction · interconnection · matrix · switching · routing · pathways · convergence
- railroadstrains, train, tracks, track, locomotive
- pedestrian safetycrosswalks, sidewalks, pedestrian signals, pedestrian zones, pedestrian bridges
- African explorationDavid Livingstone, Henry Stanley, expeditions, explorers, Richard Burton
- Railroad Buildingrail networks, branch lines, trunk lines, surveying, grading
- Viking explorationLeif Erikson, Erik the Red, Vinland, longships, Iceland
- rail yardsswitchyard, marshalling yards, receiving yard, yard crew, yardmaster
crossingsdetours
Indirect alternate routes
bypasses · circumnavigations · roundabouts · diversions · going around
crossingsblockages
Things stopping flow
obstructions · impasses · barriers · dead ends · standstills
- Animal CrossingLife simulation franchise
- ferry crossingBoat trip across water
- crossing fingersLuck-wishing hand gesture
- crossing the lineExceeding acceptable boundaries
- crossing one's fingersSuperstitious hand gesture for luck
- water crossingTraversing a body