across
/əˈkɹɔs/ preposition A2- 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).
- 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).
- Spanning. · This poetry speaks across the centuries.
- Throughout. · All across the country, voters were communicating their representatives.
- So as to intersect or pass through or over at an angle. · Lay the top stick across the bottom one.· She had straps fastened across the conduit every six feet.
From the library
A VERY LARGE OAK was uprooted by the wind and thrown across a stream.
The Tin Woodman began to use his axe at once, and, just as the two Kalidahs were nearly across, the tree fell with a crash into the gulf, carrying the ugly, snarling brutes with it, and both were dashed to pieces on the sharp rocks at the bottom.
A FOX, running before the hounds, came across a Woodcutter felling an oak and begged him to show him a safe hiding-place.
His road home lay across a stream into which his Ass, making a false step, fell by accident and rose up again with his load considerably lighter, as the water melted the sack.
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