Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- prep. On, at, or from the other side of: across the street.
- prep. So as to cross; through: drew lines across the paper.
- prep. From one side of to the other: a bridge across a river.
- prep. Into contact with: came across my old roommate.
- adv. From one side to the other: The footbridge swayed when I ran across.
- adv. On or to the opposite side: We came across by ferry.
- adv. Crosswise; crossed.
- adv. In such a manner as to be comprehensible, acceptable, or successful: put our idea across; get a message across.
- adj. Being in a crossed position: seated with arms across.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- From side to side; in a crossing or crossed manner; crosswise.
- From one side to another; transversely; in a transverse line: as, what is the distance across? I came across in a steamer.
- Adversely; contrarily: as, “things go across,” Mir. for Mags., p. 344
- From side to side of, as opposed to along, which is in the direction of the length; athwart; quite over: as, a bridge is laid across a river.
- Transverse to the length of; so as to intersect at any angle: as, a line passing across another.
- Beyond; on the other side of.
Wiktionary
- prep. To, toward, or from the far side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
- prep. On the opposite side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
- prep. southern US, African American Vernacular On the opposite side, relative to something that lies between, from (a point of interest).
- prep. From one side to the other within (a space being traversed).
- prep. At or near the far end of (a space).
- prep. Spanning.
- prep. Throughout,
- prep. So as to intersect or pass through or over at an angle.
- adv. From one side to the other.
- adv. On the other side.
- adv. In a particular direction.
- adv. crosswords Horizontally.
- n. crosswords A clue whose solution runs horizontally in the grid.
GNU Webster's 1913
- prep. From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over.
- adv. From side to side; crosswise.
- adv. obsolete Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. to the opposite side
- adv. transversely.
Etymologies
- Middle English acros, from a-croiz, from Anglo-Norman an ("on") + Old French croiz ("in the form of a cross"), from Latin crux (Wiktionary)
- Middle English acrois, from Anglo-Norman an croiz : an, in (from Latin in; see in-2) + croiz, cross (from Latin crux; see cross). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Again, bogs are not infrequently come across -- _across_, by the way, is hardly the word to use.”
“Because," Lovell hastened to say; "because she can't go across -- no, that wasn't right -- why -- ahem! why does a hen go _across_ the road, Miss”
“Romantic emails had been exchanged with Jane: Write your name across the sky.”
“I know you get asked this all the time but how do brands build a name across China?”
The Huffington Post: Tom Doctoroff: Advertising in China: What's New, What's Not
“I will rage into light, become a new star in the endless nothing, I will burn the gold of your name across the sleeping hours, and then I will let you go.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Henry: Men and Women, Ballet, and the Shock of Recognition
“Mr. Jolly estimates he has sewn 12,000 mother-of-pearl buttons onto a single suit, some of which spell out his title across his back: the Pearly King of Crystal Palace.”
The Wall Street Journal: A Peacemaker Tries to Reunite London's Warring 'Pearlies'
“He felt like he had chased a name across the open sea, and now he felt foolish and naked.”
“She wrote the title across the top of the page in large letters, then scrawled the words beneath, separating the lines as if the spell was a stanza of poetry.”
“Whispers carried his name across the arid Mojave Desert.”
“Not to anyone who would watch Willebrandt inscribe her name across the history of the 1920s.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘across’.
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
about, above, across, after, afterwards, again, against, all, almost, alone, along, already and 291 more...
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All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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preposition
Collection of prepositions! Inspired by AWAD week of 3 - 9 Nov 2008.
pace, maugre, ere, circa, chez, about, above, across, after, against, among, around and 24 more...
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See comments on pipsiculture and homosexuality, which have nothing to do with each other except that I read comments on them at around the same time on the same day.
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Cross My Heart
words and phrases containing cross
crosswise, crisscross, crosscut, across, crossword, crossbreed, cross-pollinate, double cross, crossroads, cross off, crosstown, sign of the cross and 93 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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frequent toefl
Words that I do not know or unsure for toefl
appurtenances, aptitude, arbitrary, arboretum, argot, arrears, avocation, avuncular, badger, bait, warden, bane and 428 more...
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The Old English Influence
Modern English words impacted by and descended from Old English.
a, aback, abaft, abide, about, above, abode, accursed, accurst, ache, acknowledge, acorn and 109 more...
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embrace, perfect, imagine, dance, water, color, echo, hollow, sorrow, beauty, impossible, violet and 438 more...
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Most often mispronounced words
across, affidavit, antarctic, arctic, ask, athlete, barbiturate, barbed wire, business, cavalry, candidate, cardsharp and 50 more...
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Oxford 3000
Oxford 3000 is a list of the most common 3000 words in the English language publishe by OUP.
The keywords of the Oxford 3000 have been carefully selected by a group of language experts and ex...a, an, abandon, abandoned, ability, able, unable, about, above, abroad, absence, absent, absolute and 65 more...
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Dictation words
Dictation Word list
suddenly, plumber, transport, discipline, leaking, stethoscope, railway, fiercely, aeroplane, travelling, electrician, thieves and 49 more...
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Basic English -- operations
Basic English -- 100 words for operations
come, get, give, go, keep, let, make, put, seem, take, be, do and 88 more...
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now-positions
without prepping
for, to, from, toward, in, through, with, on, against, into, at, by and 48 more...
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