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# crossways

«crossways» in Mova's school dictionary: **Across from one side to the other, not along; at an…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (crossways); also crosswise

### meaning for a pupil

1) Across from one side to the other, not along; at an angle, often a right angle, to something else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossways/#m1)

2) Placed so that one thing crosses over another, like an X. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossways/#m2)

3) A crossways is a place where four or more roads meet, a crossroads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossways/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life you cut a sandwich crossways or lay sticks crossways to start a fire. In maths and art it is the same idea as «diagonally» or «across», depending on the shape. In cooking, «cut crossways» means across the short side. A phrase is «get crossways with someone» (US informal), meaning to fall out with them.

### examples

- Cut the sandwich crossways into two triangles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossways/#x1)
- Lay the planks crossways over the stream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossways/#x2)
- The sticks were placed crossways to make a cross. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossways/#x3)
- The carrot was sliced crossways into round coins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossways/#x4)
- The car stopped crossways across the road and blocked it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossways/#x5)
- Fold the paper crossways, from one corner to the other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossways/#x6)
- (US informal) He got crossways with his coach and was benched. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossways/#x7)
- When they had got on some way they came to four crossways, each leading to a different country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crossways/#x8)

### note

«Crossways» and «crosswise» mean the same; «crosswise» is more common in the US. Not the same as «lengthways» (along the long side). In maths, cutting a rectangle crossways corner to corner gives two triangles; cutting it across the middle gives two smaller rectangles.

### Trees and pragmatics

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