ACROSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does across mean? 

• ACROSS (adverb)
  The adverb ACROSS has 2 senses:

1. to the opposite side

2. transversely

  Familiarity information: ACROSS used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACROSS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To the opposite side

Context example:

the football field was 300 feet across

Sense 2

Meaning:

Transversely

Synonyms:

across; crossways; crosswise

Context example:

the marble slabs were cut across

 Context examples 

A black screen was drawn across his mirror of inner vision, and fancy lay in a darkened sick-room where entered no ray of light.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Pitch a new client, for on this day you will be persuasive and come across as reliable, strong, and realistic.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

As we moved across it in the direction of the window, Holmes fell back until he and I were the last of the group.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When she was halfway across the room there came a great shriek from the wind, and the house shook so hard that she lost her footing and sat down suddenly upon the floor.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

During June, the average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.58°F (0.88°C) above the 20th century average.

(June 2015 was warmest June on record for the globe, NOAA)

This means that the warm ocean currents at depth can sweep across the glacier faces and erode them.

(The Hidden Meltdown of Greenland, NASA)

It somehow made the journey from South America to North America 15 million years before there was a land bridge to travel across.

(First-ever fossil monkey found in North America, NSF)

During January–March, the average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.48°F (0.82°C) above the 20th century average.

(March 2015 and first quarter of year warmest on record, NOAA)

As soon as day dawned the two children let him out, and he trotted across the snow into the forest.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)