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across

1. preposition
   1. a journey ~ the desert un voyage à travers le désert;
      the bridge ~ the river le pont qui traverse la rivière;
      to go or travel ~ sth traverser qch;
      she leaned ~ the table elle s'est penchée au-dessus de la table;
   2. (on the other side of) de l'autre côté de;
      ~ the street (from me) de l'autre côté de la rue.

2. adverb to help sb ~ aider qn à traverser;
   to go ~ to sb aller vers qn;
   to look ~ at sb regarder dans la direction de qn.

3. across from phrase en face de.

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'across' found in these entries:

English:

board - bridge - come - country - fling - flit - fly - get - help - jump - leap - over - pipe - put - row - run - sail - stride - stumble - swim - trek - wade - wide

French:

au-dessus - bec - couper - face - faire - frontalier - gifler - main - nage - os - outre-Atlantique - outre-Manche - partager - passer - rencontrer - sens - sur - tendance - tomber - traîner - travers - traverser - trouver - uniforme - voisin

across: WordReference English-French Dictionary © 2009

Principal Translations/Principales traductions
across	prep	(from one side to the other)	de l'autre côté de prép
The boy helped the old woman across the street.
New: Notre maison est de l'autre côté de la rue.
across	prep	(opposite)	en face de prép
The post office is across from the police station.
Le bureau de poste est en face du commissariat.
across	adv	(from one side to the other)	à travers prép
The highway stretched across the valley floor.
L'autoroute s'étendait à travers toute la vallée.
Additional Translations/Traductions supplémentaires
across	adv	(opposite)	de l'autre côté de prép
You can look across the river and see New Jersey.
Regarde de l'autre côté du fleuve : tu apercevras le New Jersey.
across	adv	(crosswords) mots croisés	horizontal adj
Note: Les grilles de mots croisés sont différentes selon les pays.
I can't find the answer to nine across.
Je n'arrive pas à trouver le neuvième mot horizontal.
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Compound Forms/Formes composées
across the board			dans l'ensemble
across the city			à travers toute la ville
across the continent			à travers tout le continent
across the grain			à contre-courant
across the sea			par-delà la mer
across the street		adv	en face
across-the-board		adj	généralisé
come across		v	rencontrer ⇒
come across		v	trouver ⇒
cut across		v	couper à travers
distance across			longueur du parcours
go across		v	traverser ⇒
just across the street			juste en face de la rue
put across		v	faire comprendre ⇒
run across		v	traverser en courant
scatter across		v	joncher ⇒
sit across from		vpr	s'asseoir en face de
straight across		v	traverser tout droit
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...this phenonomen has spread across the globe.
"across 28 sports"
a ripple of nervousness passed across his stomach
a smile spread across her face
Across
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across over/expenditure
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across the brand
across the continent on the West Antarctic ice sheet
across the face
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