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Wordnet 3.0

ADVERB (2)

1. to the opposite side;
- Example: "the football field was 300 feet across"

2. transversely;
- Example: "the marble slabs were cut across"
[syn: across, crosswise, crossways]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

across adv 1: to the opposite side; "the football field was 300 feet across" 2: transversely; "the marble slabs were cut across" [syn: across, crosswise, crossways]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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