What's the difference between crossing and crosswalk?
Crossing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cross
(v. t.) The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean.
(v. t.) The act of making the sign of the cross.
(v. t.) The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.
(v. t.) Intersection, as of two paths or roads.
(v. t.) A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street.
(v. t.) Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, when cross-linked to anti-CD4 or anti-CD8 antibodies a markedly enhanced proliferation of the corresponding subpopulation is observed.
(2) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(3) The quaternary structure of ribonucleotide reductase of Escherichia coli was investigated, with the use of purified B1 and B2 proteins and bifunctional cross-linking agents.
(4) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(5) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(6) 10D1 mAb induced a substantial proliferation of peripheral blood T cells when cross-linked with goat anti-mouse Ig antibody.
(7) Mapping of the cross-link position between U2 and U6 RNAs is consistent with base-pairing between the 5' domain of U2 and the 3' end of U6 RNA.
(8) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
(9) Plasma for beta-endorphin assay was preincubated with sepharose-bound anti-beta-lipotropin to remove beta-lipotropin that cross-reacted with the beta-endorphin RIA.
(10) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
(11) Further purification of ZAB by filtration through Sephadex G-100 gave a preparation (ZAB2) which contained the common antigen as shown by the cross-reactivity of anti-ZAB2 rat serum with seven stains of N. gonorrhoeae.
(12) On the other hand, as a cross-reference experiment, we developed a paper work test to do in the same way as on the VDT.
(13) No reversions to wild-type levels were observed in 555 heterozygous offspring of crosses between homozygous Campines and normals.
(14) No cross reactions were found between bluetongue and epizootic haemorrhagic disease of deer viruses.
(15) Seven patients were treated with combination chemotherapy, consisting of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) or MOPP (chloromethine, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone), in some cases followed by non-cross-resistant second line chemotherapy, if no complete response was attained.
(16) [125I]AaIT was shown to cross the midgut of Sarcophaga through a morphologically distinct segment of the midgut previously shown to be permeable to a cytotoxic, positively charged polypeptide of similar molecular weight.
(17) Blood was cross-matched preoperatively in 47.7% of patients and 90% of this blood was either not administered or given as a delayed nonurgent procedure.
(18) Conjugational recombination in Escherichia coli was investigated by monitoring synthesis of the lacZ+ product, beta-galactosidase, in crosses between lacZ mutants.
(19) Crossed immunoelectrophoresis and sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation of the patient's plasma showed his prothrombin to be qualitatively indistinguishable from normal prothrombin by these techniques.
(20) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
Crosswalk
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(2) The lack of pedestrian crossing devices, crosswalks, or sidewalks, however, was not associated with an increased risk.
(3) Fair to ask, probably not fair to conclude, unless you also ask how many of the decisions that went into Lampard’s delayed arrival, and Pirlo’s languid sightseeing tour in New York (the viral Vine of him standing transfixed by the near post as NYC concede from a corner makes him look like nothing so much as a country visitor trying to figure out a midtown crosswalk) were also made over Kreis’s head.
(4) The works in between include the fine ensemble piece Crosswalk; a new duet, Jenn and Spencer; and Festival Dance, a setting of Hummel's Piano Trio in E that weaves together some of Morris's most elaborately inventive patterns and motifs.
(5) They are used in many communities to keep a uniform and low speed on a residential street or to reduce speeds at specific locations, such as intersections or pedestrian crosswalks.
(6) I also didn’t want to add an extra piece of kit to carry around, like a key fob.” Neate oversaw the creation of both a software app for a smartphone – which uses existing accessibility options such as iPhone’s Voiceover or Samsung’s TalkBack – and a hardware device that can be installed on the control box of a crosswalk.
(7) There was also that time he hawked underwear with David Beckham, and when he created Crosswalk, the Musical, which involved putting on a full production of Grease in a Los Angeles crosswalk (much to the horror of drivers stuck at the red light).
(8) After learning how blind people experienced the world, he recognised a problem with the conventional way that they interact with crosswalks.
(9) The introduction of the sign alone 50 feet (15.15 m) before the crosswalk increased the distance before the crosswalk that motorists yielded to pedestrians and reduced the percentage of motor vehicle-pedestrian conflicts whether the flashing light was activated or not.
(10) One-hundred and sixty motorists passing through a marked crosswalk were participants.
(11) The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the effects of signs reading "STOP HERE FOR PEDESTRIANS" alone and in conjunction with advance stop lines on pedestrian safety at multilane crosswalks with pedestrian-activated amber flashing lights.
(12) Another finding from these studies was that a crosswalk should be located less than two meters from the intersection to optimize pedestrian safety.
(13) The authors describe a crosswalk, or translation, from DSM-III-R to ICD-9-CM.
(14) Motorist and pedestrian behaviors measured throughout this experiment included the occurrence of various types of motor vehicle-pedestrian conflicts; the distance that motorists stopped before the crosswalk when yielding to pedestrians; and the percentage of motorists yielding to pedestrians.
(15) Data collected at 152 crosswalks has been used to estimate the parameters of a multivariate model of the frequency of "red-walking."
(16) A brown friend of mine was pushed and kicked a few weeks ago by an elderly white lady for daring to walk in front of her in a crosswalk.
(17) During the actual incident, the jogger recognised that the driver of the vehicle had not seen him, but nevertheless he proceeded to enter a crosswalk that had already been 75% traversed by the car, leaving himself only 0.6 metres of space, a half of the lane width normally required by a runner.