Definition of across

"across" in the adverb sense

1. across

to the opposite side

"the football field was 300 feet across"

2. across, crosswise, crossways

transversely

"the marble slabs were cut across"

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Quotations for across

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow! [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress-trees!
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play! [ Whittier ]

And let our barks across the pathless flood
Hold different courses. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death. [ Young ]

It is but a short journey across the isthmus of Now. [ Bovee ]

The buttercups across the field made sunshine rifts of splendor. [ Miss Mulock ]

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Life is a desert waste: to beguile the ennui of the journey across it, heaven gave us the kiss. [ S. Marichal ]

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Ah! when shall all men's good be each man's rule, and universal peace lie like a shaft of light across the land? [ Tennyson ]

It is an awfully dangerous thing to come across a woman who thoroughly understands one. They always end by marrying one. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change. [ N. P. Willis ]

Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings. [ Bulwer Lytton ]

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue. [ Emerson ]

Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a very beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

There are few thoughts likely to come across ordinary men which have not already been expressed by greater men in the best possible way; and it is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world. [ John Ruskin ]

I never had the courage to talk across a long, narrow room I should be at the end of the room facing all the audience. If I attempt to talk across a room I find myself turning this way and that, and thus at alternate periods I have part of the audience behind me. You ought never to have any part of the audience behind you; you never can tell what they are going to do. [ Mark Twain, from his speech Courage ]

across in Scrabble®

The word across is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters across:

OSCARS
(33)
ACROSS
(33)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word across

ACROSS
(33)
ACROSS
(28)
ACROSS
(27)
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ACROSS
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ACROSS
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In across

OSCARS
(33)
ACROSS
(33)
SCARS
(30)
CRASS
(30)
CROSS
(30)
ACROSS
(28)
ACROSS
(27)
ACROSS
(27)
ACROSS
(27)
ACROSS
(27)
OSCARS
(27)
OSCARS
(27)
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ACROSS
(27)
CARS
(27)
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CRASS
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CROSS
(24)
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OSCAR
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CRASS
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ACROSS
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(22)
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(21)
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(21)
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ORCA
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ARCS
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ORCA
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OSCARS
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ACROSS
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CRASS
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(20)
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OSCARS
(20)
CARS
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SCARS
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across in Words With Friends™

The word across is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters across:

OSCARS
(57)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word across

ACROSS
(51)
ACROSS
(39)
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(39)
ACROSS
(36)
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(34)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In across

OSCARS
(57)
ACROSS
(51)
OSCARS
(51)
CROSS
(48)
SCARS
(48)
CRASS
(48)
CARS
(45)
ACROSS
(39)
OSCARS
(39)
ACROSS
(39)
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(36)
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(34)
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(33)
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Words within the letters of across

2 letter words in across (5 words)

3 letter words in across (7 words)

4 letter words in across (7 words)

5 letter words in across (5 words)

6 letter words in across (Anagrams) (2 words)

across + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence across

Words that start with across (1 word)

Words with across in them (2 words)

Words that end with across (1 word)

Word Growth involving across

Shorter words in across

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Longer words containing across

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