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What's The Definition Of Across?
[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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Across: crossed | crosstown | cross-town | crossways | crosswise | decussate | intersectant | intersecting | over Related Terms | Find terms related to Across: 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 See Also | Across In Webster's Dictionary \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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