across

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/əˈkɹɒs/

prep 5adv 4noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

blind, bright, far, half, old, small, sweeping

The old man walked across the bridge every morning to reach the market.

VERB + ACROSS

bridge, came, drive, fly, letting, ran, rowed, sat

The old wooden bridge came across the river, connecting our village to the neighboring town.

ACROSS + NOUN

capitol, country, floor, friend, hill, john, lake, night

I ran across an old friend from high school at the grocery store yesterday.

PREP.

around, from, in, through, with

I walked across the field with my dog every morning last summer.

ADV.

almost, away, such

She walked almost across the entire city to find that restaurant.

Definitions

prep

To, toward, or from the far side of (something that lies between two points of interest).

We rowed across the river.

Fortunately, there was a bridge across the river.

On the opposite side of (something that lies between two points of interest).

That store is across the street.

across from: on the opposite side, relative to something that lies between, from (a point of interest).

And make sure you're parked across the mall in the outside lot. […] Last time I was there, I parked in a parking structure and paid an arm and a leg for it.

On another occasion, Clinton asked Patterson to drive him to Chelsea's school, Booker Elementary, where Clinton met the department store clerk and climbed into her car. "I parked across the entrance and stood outside the car looking around, about 120 feet from where they were parked in a lot that was pretty well lit," Patterson recalled. "[…]They stayed in the car for thirty to forty minutes."

From one side to the other within (a space being traversed).

The meteor streaked across the sky.

He walked across the room.

At or near the far end of (a space).

"Mam's baking and Cathleen's asleep. I've got a pile of washing bubbling in the copper, so I'd best be off." With that she was across the room and out the door.

adv

From one side to the other.

she helped the blind man across; the river is half a mile across

[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].

On the other side.

If we sail off at noon, when will we be across?

In a particular direction.

He leaned across for a book.

Horizontally.

I got stuck on 4 across.

noun

A word that runs horizontally in the completed puzzle grid or its associated clue.

I solved all of the acrosses, but then got stuck on 3 down.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adverb — transversely

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

across the board

Pertaining to all categories or things.

[…]in favor of a straight across-the-board salary increase[…]

come across

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, across.

He came across the street towards me.

run across

To cross by running.

The police ran across the bridge to catch the criminal.

put oneself across

To explain one's ideas and opinions clearly so that another person can understand them and get a picture of your personality.

It is very important to put yourself across well at a job interview.

down the road, not across the street

Of the technique for committing suicide, along the radial artery rather than across the wrist from side to side.

We repeated the words ‘down the road, not across the street’ when discussing the use of knives. […] To cut horizontally was to commit the gravest possible sin for a young woman: to

Example Bank

We rowed across the river.

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Fortunately, there was a bridge across the river.

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He came across the street to meet me.

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she helped the blind man across; the river is half a mile across

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If we sail off at noon, when will we be across?

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