across
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
across/əˈkrɒs/
▶preposition & adverb from one side to the other of (something).
■ expressing movement over (a place or region).
■ on or towards the other side of.
– phrases
across the board applying to all.
across the board applying to all.
– origin ME (as adv. meaning ‘in the form of a cross’): from OFr. a croix, en croix ‘in or on a cross’.
'across' also found in these Oxford entries:
acoustic impedance
- active transport
- architrave
- aslant
- athwart
- backhand
- backline
- badminton
- bang
- bangtail
- bangtail muster
- banner headline
- bar
- barrage
- barré
- bar tracery
- beat
- belted galloway
- between
- bias
- block plane
- blow
- blue line
- boardwalk
- bokmakierie
- bolt
- boom
- bow
- breastplate
- breastsummer
- bridge
- brushstroke
- bumper
- caisson
- capo
- caponier
- caravan
- carnet
- causeway
- chance
- channel-hop
- chief
- chine
- clapper bridge
- coast to coast
- come
- conjugated
- continental drift
- coping saw
