across

«across» in Mova's judaism 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 →

2) Across means on the other side: the shop across the road. tree →

3) Across tells how wide something is: «2 meters across». tree →

4) In a crossword, «across» clues go from left to right. tree →

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

• Such diagrams are often arranged so that the letter א Alef is across from ל Lamed, spelling the name אֵל El, God. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
• So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold; and he drew chains of gold across the wall before the Sanctuary; and he overlaid it with gold. (Prophets 1KI.6.21, JPS 1917) tree →
• And, behold, there came a great wind from across the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.' (Writings JOB.1.19, JPS 1917) tree →
• The pool is 25 meters across. tree →
• He swims across the lake twice. tree →
• There are 6 tiles across and 4 down. tree →
• The bridge goes across a river 80 feet wide. tree →
• Look both ways before you walk across the road. tree →
• The bakery is across from the school. tree →
• I came across an old photo. tree →
• Write the word for 5 across. tree →
• Birds fly across the sky. tree →
• The circle is 10 cm across. tree →

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.
• Donkeys bray to call other donkeys, and the sound can carry about 3 kilometres across their desert homeland.
• Microbes are living things far too small to see; a thousand bacteria in a row would just about stretch across a pinhead.
• Millions of years ago, when the air held more oxygen, some dragonfly relatives had wings about 70 centimetres across.
• The largest fliers ever, pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus, had wings about 10 metres across but were light, with hollow bones.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «across» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.