crosswalk

English

New York crosswalks

Alternative forms

xwalk (abbreviation)

Etymology

From cross +‎ walk.

Noun

crosswalk (plural crosswalks)

(US) A point designated for pedestrians to cross a street.
(databases) A mapping between equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.

Synonyms

crossing
pedestrian crossing

Hyponyms

pelican crossing, puffin crossing, toucan crossing
zebra crossing
crossover

Translations

place where pedestrians can cross a street

Azerbaijani: yayaq keçidi
Belarusian: пешаходны пераход m (pješaxódny pjeraxód)
Burmese: လူကူးကူး (luku:ku:)
Catalan: pas de vianants (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 斑馬線, 斑马线 (baan¹ maa⁵ sin³), 行人穿越道 (hang⁴ jan⁴ cyun¹ jyut⁶ dou⁶)
Mandarin: 斑馬線／斑马线 (zh) (bānmǎxiàn), 行人穿越道 (xíngrén chuānyuèdào)
Min Nan: 斑馬線 (zh-min-nan), 斑马线 (pan-má-sòaⁿ, pan-bé-sòaⁿ), 過路線, 过路线 (kòe-lō͘-sòaⁿ, kè-lō͘-sòaⁿ)
Czech: přechod pro chodce (cs) m
Dutch: oversteekplaats (nl), zebrapad (nl) n
Esperanto: transirejo
Estonian: jalakäijate ületamine
Finnish: suojatie (fi)
French: passage piéton (fr) m
German: Zebrastreifen (de) m, Fußgängerübergang (de) m
Hindi: पैदल यात्री क्रॉसिंग m (paidal yātrī krŏsiṅg)
Hungarian: gyalogátkelőhely (hu)
Indonesian: jalur pejalan kaki
Irish: trasrian síogach m, trasrian coisithe m
Italian: strisce pedonali f pl
Japanese: 横断歩道 (ja) (おうだんほどう, ōdan hodō)
Korean: 횡단 보도 (hoengdan bodo)
Macedonian: пешачки премин m (pešački premin)
Malay: trek pejalan kaki
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gangfelt n, fotgjengerovergang m
Portuguese: faixa de pedestres f, faixa (pt)
Romanian: trecere pietonală f
Russian: пешехо́дный перехо́д (ru) m (pešexódnyj perexód)
Spanish: cruce (es) m, paso de peatones
Swedish: övergångsställe (sv) n
Tagalog: tawiran (tl)
Tajik: пиёдагард (tg) (piyodagard)
Turkish: yaya geçidi (tr)
Uzbek: piyodalar izi
Welsh: croesfan zebra f

Verb

crosswalk (third-person singular simple present crosswalks, present participle crosswalking, simple past and past participle crosswalked)

(databases) To map equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.

Anagrams

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