Meaning of ACROSS
| Pronunciation: | | u'kros
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- [adv] transversely; "the marble slabs were cut across"
- [adv] to the opposite side; "the football field was 300 feet across"
- [adv] in such a manner as to be understood and accepted; "she cannot get her ideas across"
- [adj] placed crosswise; "spoken with a straight face but crossed fingers"; "crossed forks"; "seated with arms across"
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| | Synonyms: | | crossed, crosstown, cross-town, crossways, crosswise, decussate, intersectant, intersecting, over |
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| | Antonyms: | | uncrossed | | |
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| | Definition: | | Across
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\A*cross"\ (#; 115), prep. [Pref. a- + cross: cf. F. en
croix. See Cross, n.]
From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction
opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a
river. --Dryden.
{To come across}, to come upon or meet incidentally.
--Freeman.
{To go across the country}, to go by a direct course across a
region without following the roads.
\A*cross"\, adv.
1. From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across.
--Shak.
2. Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. [Obs.]
The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the
actions of Christ. --Bp. Hall.
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| | Related Terms: | | across the grain, against, astraddle, astride, athwart, athwartships, bendwise, beyond, bias, biased, biaswise, catercorner, catercornered, confronting, contrariwise, contrawise, crisscross, cross, cross-grained, crossway, crossways, crosswise, diagonal, facing, fronting, horseback, in front of, in opposition to, kittycorner, oblique, obliquely, on, on horseback, over against, overthwart, past, sideways, sidewise, slant, straddle, straddleback, straddle-legged, thwart, thwartly, thwartways, toward, transversal, transverse, transversely, traverse, versus |
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