Across from

Definition

across /ǝ'krɒs; US ǝ'krↄ:s / adv part ၁။ တစ္ဖက္မွ တစ္ဖက္သို႔။ လွမ္း၍။ ကူး၍။ Can you swim across? ❍ She called across to the child to wait for her. ❍ Come across to my office this afternoon. ❍ I helped the blind man across. ၂။ ထိုမွာဘက္တြင္။ We leave Dover at ten and we should be across in France by midnight. ၃။ ဤမွာဘက္မွ ထိုမွာဘက္သို႔ အက်ယ္အားျဖင့္။ The river is half a mile across (ie wide). ၄။ လွမ္း၍။ He leaned/reached across and picked up the bottle. ၅။ (စကားလံုး ပေဟဠိတြင္) အလ်ားလိုက္။ Can you do 5 across? Compare DOWN adv part ၃ prep ၁။ ျဖတ္၍။ ျဖတ္သန္း၍။ walk across the street ❍ row sb across a lake ❍ A shadow passed across his face. ၂။ မ်က္ႏွာခ်င္းဆိုင္မွ။ မ်က္ႏွာခ်င္းဆိုင္တြင္။ He shouted to me from across the room. ❍ My house is just across the street. ၃။ ကန္႔လန္႔ျဖတ္လ်က္။ ျဖတ္၍။ a bridge across the river ❍ curtains across a window ❍ Draw a line across the page. ၄။ ကန္႔လန္႔ယွက္လ်က္။ He sat with his arms across his chest. ၅။ အႏွံ႔။ တစ္ေလွ်ာက္။ an interview broadcast across Europe ❍ Her family is scattered across the country. ၆။ အသီးသီး၌။ a view held across all sections of the community. ❏ across from prep ( esp US ) မ်က္ႏွာခ်င္းဆိုင္တြင္။ Just across from our house there is a school.

Examples

1. Over 70 airlines fly across the Atlantic between Europe and North America.
2. Barbara stared across the room at her husband.
3. The children ran straight across in front of our car.
4. Max’s body lay across the doorway where he had fallen.
5. There are four bridges across the River Danube.
6. He stood in silence with his arms folded across his chest.
7. [one mile/two metres etc across] : The channel is less than half a mile across in some places.
8. There’s a bus stop just across the road.
9. They had opened a new factory across the border in Mexico.
10. [across from] : I’m staying at a little hotel just across from the Libyan Embassy.
11. An insurance company that has over 120 offices across Europe
12. [right across] : There are 20 million landmines scattered right across the region.
13. Julia felt a burning pain across her forehead.
14. He struck me a blow across the shoulders.
15. There is a danger of the conflict spreading across the whole of Central Africa.
16. A broad smile spread across the old man’s face.
17. We need to test students’ ability across a wide range of subjects.
18. The figures show that across the economy as a whole there has been steady growth.