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Crossroads vs Conjunction - What's the difference?

crossroads | conjunction |

As nouns the difference between crossroads and conjunction

is that crossroads is while conjunction is the act of joining, or condition of being joined.

crossroads

English

Noun

(head)
  • A place where one road crosses another; an intersection of two or more roads.
  • (by extension) A centrally located position
  • (by analogy) A decision point; a turning point or opportunity to change direction, course, or goal.
  • (nonstandard) A fork in the road.
  • * 2005 , Phil Nordyke, All American, all the way: the combat history of the 82nd Airborne , page 723:
  • The Company A commander, Captain Helmer, was at the crossroads where the road split, with the left fork leading to Udenbreth, when he saw a group of men coming toward him.
  • * 2010 , Raeanne Thayne, A Cold Creek Baby , page 199:
  • When she reached the crossroads where the trail split, one part of her yearned to head toward the lake.

    Quotations

    * * 2005 , Jake Logan, Slocum and the Sierra Madras Gold : *: The shiny wet black triangle at the crossroads of where her legs split. * 2010 , M. K. Hobson, The Native Star : *: When they came to a crossroads where the road split off into four cardinal directions, Stanton stood squinting up at the signpost for a long time.

    conjunction

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
  • (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
  • *, vol.1. ch.29:
  • Certaine Nations (and amongst others, the Mahometane) abhorre Conjunction with women great with childe.
  • (grammar) A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related. Example: Bread, butter and cheese.
  • (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
  • (astrology) An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
  • (logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the (\and) operator.
  • Coordinate terms

    * (in logic) disjunction

    Hypernyms

    * (in logic) logical connective

    Meronyms

    * (in logic) conjunct

    Derived terms

    * inferior conjunction * superior conjunction * conjunctive normal form

    See also

    * disjunction