road vs crossing

road and crossing both are nouns.

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

road (noun)	crossing (noun)
a way or means to achieve something	a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation	traveling across
	(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