crossing vs ford

crossing and ford both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
crossing	Yes	No	No	No
ford	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, ford is a hyponym of crossing; that is, ford is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than crossing:

crossing: traveling across
ford: the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse

Other hyponyms of crossing include fording, traversal, traverse.

As nouns, crossing and ford are synonyms defined as:

crossing (noun)	ford (noun)
a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)	the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse
traveling across	a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
a junction where one street or road crosses another
a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
a shallow area in a stream that can be forded

crossing (verb)	ford (verb)
	cross a river where it's shallow