different between across vs besides
across
English
Alternative forms
- acrost (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English acros, acrosse, equivalent to a- +? cross. Compare also Middle English acrois, a-croiz, acreoiz, from Anglo-Norman an (“in, on”) + croiz (“in the form of a cross”). More at cross.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?-kr?s?, IPA(key): /??k??s/
- (General American) enPR: ?-krôs?, IPA(key): /??k??s/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: ?-kr?s?, IPA(key): /??k??s/
- Rhymes: -?s, -??s
- Hyphenation: across
Preposition
across
- To, toward, or from the far side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
- On the opposite side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
- (Southern US, African-American Vernacular) across from: on the opposite side, relative to something that lies between, from (a point of interest).
- 1994 June 21, Thong P Tong <[email protected]>, "Re: Battle Tech Center", message-ID <[email protected]>, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games, Usenet [1]:
- And make sure you're parked across the mall in the outside lot. […] Last time I was there, I parked in a parking structure and paid an arm and a leg for it.
- 1995, Ronald Kessler, Inside the White House, 1996 edition, ?ISBN, page 243 [2]:
- On another occasion, Clinton asked Patterson to drive him to Chelsea's school, Booker Elementary, where Clinton met the department store clerk and climbed into her car.
- "I parked across the entrance and stood outside the car looking around, about 120 feet from where they were parked in a lot that was pretty well lit," Patterson recalled. " […] They stayed in the car for thirty to forty minutes."
- 2011, Danielle Butler, Scars of Eternity, p. 30:
- A boy that sat across me politely introduced himself as Jackson Klausner.
- 1994 June 21, Thong P Tong <[email protected]>, "Re: Battle Tech Center", message-ID <[email protected]>, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games, Usenet [1]:
- From one side to the other within (a space being traversed).
- At or near the far end of (a space).
- 2004, Josephine Cox, Lovers and Liars, ?ISBN, page 78 [3]:
- "Mam's baking and Cathleen's asleep. I've got a pile of washing bubbling in the copper, so I'd best be off." With that she was across the room and out the door.
- 2004, Josephine Cox, Lovers and Liars, ?ISBN, page 78 [3]:
- Spanning.
- Throughout.
- So as to intersect or pass through or over at an angle.
- 2010, Alex Bledsoe, The Girls with Games of Blood, Tor, ?ISBN, page 147 [4]:
- He parked across the end of the driveway, blocking her in.
- 2010, Alex Bledsoe, The Girls with Games of Blood, Tor, ?ISBN, page 147 [4]:
- In possession of full, up-to-date information about; abreast of.
- 2019, Lenore Taylor, The Guardian, 20 September:
- As a regular news reader I thought I was across the eccentricities of the US president.
- 2019, Lenore Taylor, The Guardian, 20 September:
Derived terms
Related terms
- cross
Translations
Adverb
across (not comparable)
- From one side to the other.
- On the other side.
- In a particular direction.
- (crosswords) Horizontally.
Translations
Noun
across (plural acrosses)
- (crosswords, often in combination) A word that runs horizontally in the completed puzzle grid or its associated clue.
- I solved all of the acrosses, but then got stuck on 3 down.
Further reading
- across in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- across in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- across at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Oscars, ROSCAs, Rascos, caross, oscars
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besides
English
Etymology
beside +? -s. See -s (Etymology 3)
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /b??sa?dz/, /bi?sa?dz/
Preposition
besides
- In addition, in addition to.
- 1661, John Fell, “The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond”, quoted in Ecclesiastical Biography by Christopher Wordsworth, fourth edition, volume IV, London: Francis & John Rivington (1853):
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
- 1776, Thomas Pennant, A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides, 1772
- It is besides used as a food, either as a sallad[sic], raw, or boiled as greens.
- 1661, John Fell, “The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond”, quoted in Ecclesiastical Biography by Christopher Wordsworth, fourth edition, volume IV, London: Francis & John Rivington (1853):
- Other than; except for; instead of.
- (obsolete) Beside.
- 1561, Geneva Bible, Acts 16:13,The Geneva Bible#page/n1075
- And on the Sabbath day, we went out of the citie, be?ides a riuer, where they were wont to pray : and we ?ate downe, and ?pake vnto the women, which were come together.
- 1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, London: John Hunne, “The Historie of Englande. Aldestane,” p. 225,[1]
- After this, was Edwin the Kings brother accu?ed of ?ome con?piracie by him begun again?t the K. whervpõ he was bani?hed the land, and ?ent out in an old rotten ve??ell without rower or Marriner, onely accompanied with one E?quire, ?o that beeing launched foorth from the ?hore, through very di?paire Edwin lept into the Sea, and drowned him?elfe, but the E?quire that was with him recouered his body, and broughte it to land at With?and be?ides Canterbury.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book Two, Canto 1, p. 198,[2]
- Be?ides them both, vpon the ?oiled gras / The dead cor?e of an armed knight was ?pred, […]
- 1561, Geneva Bible, Acts 16:13,The Geneva Bible#page/n1075
Synonyms
- (in addition): beyond, on top of; see also Thesaurus:in addition to
- (other than): barring, besides, save for; see also Thesaurus:except
Translations
Adverb
besides (not comparable)
- (conjunctive) Also; in addition.
- (conjunctive) Used to emphasize an additional point, especially an important or stronger reason; Moreover; furthermore.
- Otherwise; else.
- (obsolete) On one side.
- c. 1611, George Chapman (translator), The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 8, p. 111,[3]
- Yet Teucer would another shaft, at Hectors life dispose;
So faine, he such a marke would hit: but still besides it goes;
- Yet Teucer would another shaft, at Hectors life dispose;
- c. 1611, George Chapman (translator), The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 8, p. 111,[3]
Translations
See also
- on top of that
- beside
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