Definition of Across

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Across

From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river.

From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across.

Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.

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Across Quotations

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
Zig Ziglar

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Ronald Reagan

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Winston Churchill

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
Helen Keller

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
Mae West

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.
Michael Jackson

If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?
Ann Coulter

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
Frederick Douglass

Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet.
Dennis Miller

Across Translations

across in Dutch is over, overheen, aan de overkant van
across in Finnish is poikki
across in Latin is trans
across in Norwegian is tvers over
across in Spanish is travieso, allende, diametro

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