 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
across
adjective: placed crosswise; "spoken with a straight face but crossed
fingers"; "crossed forks"; "seated with arms across"
[syn: {crossed}] [ant: {uncrossed}]
adverb
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Across \A*cross"\ (#; 115), preposition [Pref. a- + cross: cf. F. en
croix. See Cross, noun]
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Across \A*cross"\, adverb
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.
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
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