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# across

«across» in Mova's school dictionary: **from one side to the other side: you walk across the street** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

preposition, adverb (across)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Across means from one side to the other side: you walk across the street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/across/#m1)

2) Across means on the other side: the shop across the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/across/#m2)

3) Across tells how wide something is: «2 meters across». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/across/#m3)

4) In a crossword, «across» clues go from left to right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/across/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

a distance from side to side, the width of a shape, or rows in a grid; in everyday safety, crossing roads; phrases «across from», «come across» (find by chance), «across the country», «all across»

### examples

- The pool is 25 meters across. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/across/#x1)
- He swims across the lake twice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/across/#x2)
- There are 6 tiles across and 4 down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/across/#x3)
- The bridge goes across a river 80 feet wide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/across/#x4)
- Look both ways before you walk across the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/across/#x5)
- The bakery is across from the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/across/#x6)
- I came across an old photo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/across/#x7)
- Write the word for 5 across. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/across/#x8)
- Birds fly across the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/across/#x9)
- The circle is 10 cm across. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/across/#x10)

### note

Often gives a width or a length to use; «across and down» in a grid means rows × columns. Trap: going across and back is twice the distance. A circle's «across» is its diameter. Spelled with one c and two s: «across», not «accross».

### In the corpora

- [Vivid example: in Toronto, red letters slide across the bottom of a cartoon: BREAKING NEWS.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/5/)
- [Donkeys bray to call other donkeys, and the sound can carry about 3 kilometres across their desert homeland.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/14/)
- [Microbes are living things far too small to see; a thousand bacteria in a row would just about stretch across a pinhead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses/0/)
- [Millions of years ago, when the air held more oxygen, some dragonfly relatives had wings about 70 centimetres across.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions/15/)
- [The largest fliers ever, pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus, had wings about 10 metres across but were light, with hollow bones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «across» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/across/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.