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/ƏˈKRⱭS/


/ƏˈKRⱰS/

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Across describes something that's situated on the opposite side or the direction
you have to go to get from one side to another.

Thinking about swimming across the English Channel? It's 23.7 miles across from
England to France, so you might want to take a boat instead. The phrase "across
the board" means that all parts of something are affected. But it originally
came from horse racing, to describe when someone bet equal amounts of money on a
horse to come in first, second, or third place. The "board" was the blackboard
where bookmakers chalked up the odds for each horse.

Definitions of across
 1. adverb
    to the opposite side
    “the football field was 300 feet across”
 2. adverb
    transversely
    “the marble slabs were cut across”
    synonyms: crossways, crosswise

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/ƏˈKRⱭS/

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/ƏˈKRⱰS/

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 * Then turning from the city of Morgul, now no more than a grey glimmer across
   a dark gulf, he prepared to take the upward road.
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 * It was too big, of course, and too long, but there was no time to change it,
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   my father bash himself in the head, then get down across the streetcar tracks
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 * And then, almost in slow motion, a grin crept across the Colonel’s face.
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