English-Dutch translations for across

• overheen
• horizontaal
  Europa moet zichzelf definiëren door middel van een cultuurbeleid dat het beleid op alle andere gebieden horizontaal doorsnijdt. Europe needs to define itself through a horizontal cultural policy cutting across all policies.
  Wij hebben bovendien voor elkaar gekregen dat het beginsel van niet-discriminatie werd uitgeroepen tot een horizontaal beginsel.We have also succeeded in ensuring that the principal of non-discrimination applies across the board.
  Cultuur zou dus een vitaal en horizontaal geïntegreerd element moeten zijn binnen het brede spectrum van externe beleidslijnen waaruit het buitenlands beleid van de EU bestaat. Culture should therefore be integrated across the board in the wide spectrum of actions that make up the EU's foreign policy.
• over
  Dat moet over de gehele linie gelden.That should apply across the board.
  Misschien vloog het zelfs over een grensgebied? Or maybe it flew across border areas?
  Over de hele wereld neemt de vleesconsumptie hand over hand toe. Meat consumption is soaring across the world.
• overdwars
  Mijn kiesdistrict meet overdwars 1300 kilometer. My constituency measures a distance of 1 300 kilometres across.
• tegenover
  Tegenover het huis lag een parkeerplaats. Across the road from the house there was a car park.
  Iemand had een bed tegenover de badkamerdeur gezet, zodat zij daar niet in kon. Somebody had put a bed across the bathroom door and so she could not get in.
  Naar de Chinese provincie Fujian, tegenover Taiwan, zijn extra troepen gedirigeerd. Extra troops have been sent to the Chinese province of Fujian, which lies across the water from Taiwan.
• zijdelings

Definition of 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
• across from: on the opposite side, relative to something that lies between, from (a point of interest
• From one side to the other within (a space being traversed
• At or near the far end of (a space
• Spanning
• Throughout
• So as to intersect or pass through or over at an angle
• In possession of full, up-to-date information about; abreast of
• From one side to the other
• On the other side
• In a particular direction
• Horizontally
• A word that runs horizontally in the completed puzzle grid or its associated clue

Examples

• We rowed across the river
• Fortunately, there was a bridge across the river
• He came across the street to meet me
• That store is across the street
• The meteor streaked across the sky
• He walked across the room
• Could you slide that across the table to me, please?
• This poetry speaks across the centuries
• All across the country, voters were communicating their representatives
• Lay the top stick across the bottom one
• She had straps fastened across the conduit every six feet
• she helped the blind man across;  the river is half a mile across
• If we sail off at noon, when will we be across?
• He leaned across for a book
• I got stuck on 4 across
• I solved all of the acrosses, but then got stuck on 3 down.

Related words

• lacrosse
• cut-across
• across from
• across the pond
• across abeam
• across the board
• across flats
• across Germany
• across the whole of Germany