across
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- adverb
- /əˈkrɔs/
:
a través de
- The breeze blows across your sweat and across your skin.
- miles across
- feet across
- inches across
Examples
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The pieces slide across the table on their own.
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And you obviously moved across the world to London.
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Within minutes, my parents were sitting across from each other at the kitchen table.
Fiction book (1991) -
Come on let's go across.
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I wonder if we could get across to the public that sustainability can be fun!
Academic text (1991) -
So I think my work applies across all aspects of performance.
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It's a straight shot on the interstate, down and across.
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Molly stops for a moment and then looks back across to the executive area.
Fiction book (1990) -
I think it'll come across nicely on stage.
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The dog ran across the street to greet its owner.
Synonyms
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Above or across something to show movement and position
In a place across something so it lies from one side to the other
Across something instead of along it, sometimes meaning wrong or not as planned
Across the width of something rather than along its length
Across the width of something from one short side to the other
Antonyms
Idioms
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Morphology
Etymology
Across comes from the old prefix a- meaning 'on' or 'in' plus cross, from the idea of a line or mark that goes from one side to the other. So to go across something is to go 'from one side to the other'.