4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Across \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. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Across \A*cross"\, adv. 1. From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: across adj : placed crosswise; "spoken with a straight face but crossed fingers"; "crossed forks"; "seated with arms across" [syn: {crossed}] [ant: {uncrossed}] adv 1: to the opposite side; "the football field was 300 feet across" 2: in such a manner as to be understood and accepted; "she cannot get her ideas across" [syn: {over}] 3: transversely; "the marble slabs were cut across" [syn: {crosswise}, {crossways}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 51 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, straddle-legged, straddleback, thwart, thwartly, thwartways, toward, transversal, transverse, transversely, traverse, versus
Powered by Blog Dictionary [BlogDict]
Kindly supported by
Vaffle Invitation Code
Get a Freelance Job - Outsource Your Projects | Threadless Coupon
All rights
reserved. (2008-2024)