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Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European*h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
Proto-Italic*en
Old Latinen
Latinin
Old Frenchen
Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-der.?
Old Frenchcrois
Anglo-Normanan croizbor.
Middle Englishacros
Englishacross

    FromMiddle Englishacros, from earlyMiddle Englisha-croiz,a-creoyz, fromAnglo-Normanan(“in, on”) +croiz(“in the form of a cross”). More atcross. Bysurface analysis,a- +‎cross.

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    Preposition

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    across

    1. To,toward, orfrom thefar side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
      We rowedacross the river.
      Fortunately, there was a bridgeacross the river.
      He cameacross the street to meet me.
    2. On theopposite side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
      That store isacross the street.
    3. (Southern US, African-American Vernacular) across from: on the opposite side, relative to something that lies between, from (a point of interest).
      • 1994 June 21, Thong P Tong <tongtp@coyote.cig.mot.com>, "Re: Battle Tech Center", message-ID <2u7lsi$79n@delphinium.cig.mot.com>,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games, Usenet [1]:
        And make sure you're parkedacross 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.
      • 1995,Ronald Kessler,Inside the White House, published1996,→ISBN,page243:
        On another occasion, Clinton askedPatterson to drive him to Chelsea's school, Booker Elementary, where Clinton met the department store clerk and climbed into her car.
        "I parkedacross 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."
      • 2011, Danielle Butler,Scars of Eternity, page30:
        A boy that satacross me politely introduced himself as Jackson Klausner.
    4. From oneside to theother within (a space being traversed).
      The meteor streakedacross the sky.
      He walkedacross the room.
      Could you slide thatacross the table to me, please?
      • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:
        I corralled the judge, and we started offacross the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
    5. At or near thefar end of (a space).
      • 2004,Josephine Cox,Lovers and Liars‎[2],→ISBN, page78:
        "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 wasacross the room and out the door.
    6. Spanning.
      This poetry speaksacross the centuries.
    7. Throughout.
      Allacross the country, voters were communicating their representatives.
      • 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, inAmerican Scientist, volume100, number 2, page172:
        Last spring, the periodical cicadas emergedacross eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
      • 2013 June 21,Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 2, page30:
        Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
    8. So as to intersect or pass through or over at an angle.
      Lay the top stickacross the bottom one.
      She had straps fastenedacross the conduit every six feet.
      • 2010,Alex Bledsoe,The Girls with Games of Blood‎[3],Tor,→ISBN, page147:
        He parkedacross the end of the driveway, blocking her in.
    9. In possession of full, up-to-date information about; abreast of.
      Keepacross all the latest news here at Channel 10.
      • 2019 September 20, Lenore Taylor,The Guardian:
        As a regular news reader I thought I wasacross the eccentricities of the US president.

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    Translations

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    from the far side
    on the opposite side
    from one side to another
    bridging a gap
    perpendicularly
    spanning; throughout—see alsospan,‎throughout
    • Spanish:en (es)(multiple separate locations)

    Adverb

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    across (notcomparable)

    1. From oneside to theother.
      she helped the blind manacross;  the river is half a mileacross
      • 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8845:
        [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two micronsacross. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
    2. On the other side.
      If we sail off at noon, when will we beacross?
    3. In aparticular direction.
      He leanedacross for a book.
    4. (crosswording)Horizontally.
      I got stuck on 4across.

    Translations

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    from one side to the other
    on the other side
    in a particular direction
    crosswords: horizontally

    Noun

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    across (pluralacrosses)

    1. (crosswording, often in combination) A word that runshorizontally in the completed puzzlegrid or its associated clue.
      I solved all of theacrosses, but then got stuck on 3 down.

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