CUT ACROSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cut across mean? 

• CUT ACROSS (verb)
  The verb CUT ACROSS has 3 senses:

1. travel across or pass over

2. be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations

3. cut using a diagonal line

  Familiarity information: CUT ACROSS used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUT ACROSS (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Travel across or pass over

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

cover; cross; cut across; cut through; get across; get over; pass over; track; traverse

Context example:

The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day

Hypernyms (to "cut across" is one way to...):

pass (go across or through)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut across"):

tramp (cross on foot)

stride (cover or traverse by taking long steps)

walk (traverse or cover by walking)

crisscross (cross in a pattern, often random)

ford (cross a river where it's shallow)

bridge (cross over on a bridge)

jaywalk (cross the road at a red light)

drive; take (proceed along in a vehicle)

course (move swiftly through or over)

hop (traverse as if by a short airplane trip)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

Opinions on bombing the Serbs cut across party lines

Hypernyms (to "cut across" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cut using a diagonal line

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

crosscut; cut across

Hypernyms (to "cut across" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

I snatched a cutlass from the pile, and someone, at the same time snatching another, gave me a cut across the knuckles which I hardly felt.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In addition, NCCAM studies CAM whole medical systems, which cut across all domains.

(Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NCI Thesaurus)

“It is nought,” answered his squire, stanching the blood which dripped from a sword-cut across his forehead.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sun was shining in upon them through a side-window, and I can see the three faces now—one in the dusk, one in the light, and one cut across by the shadow.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was vain to think of One Ear so outdistancing his pursuers as to be able to cut across their circle in advance of them and to regain the sled.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The red arcs must be geologically young because they cut across older features like impact craters.

(Unusual Red Arcs Spotted on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)

Mars and Uranus had cut across your career and home sectors.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And before the wind we were, and leaping, when Johnson, easing his sheet at imminent peril, cut across our wake a hundred feet away.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But Spitz, cold and calculating even in his supreme moods, left the pack and cut across a narrow neck of land where the creek made a long bend around.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The Committee may consider the reports of the various review groups as informational, advisory, or as recommendations, and shall provide the NCI with assistance in identifying opportunities to be pursued within the areas of cancer research that cut across the intramural and extramural programs.

(Advisory Committee to the Director, NCI, NCI Thesaurus)