CUT ACROSS
Dictionary entry overview: What does cut across mean?
• CUT ACROSS (verb)
The verb CUT ACROSS has 3 senses:
1. travel across or pass over
2. be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations
3. cut using a diagonal lines
Familiarity information: CUT ACROSS used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• CUT ACROSS (verb)
Meaning:
Travel across or pass over
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
traverse; cross; cut across; cut through; get over; pass over; get across; track; cover
Context example:
The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day
Hypernyms (to "cut across" is one way to...):
go across; go through; pass (go across or through)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut across"):
tramp (cross on foot)
course (move swiftly through or over)
drive; take (proceed along in a vehicle)
jaywalk (cross the road at a red light)
bridge (cross over on a bridge)
ford (cross a river where it's shallow)
crisscross (cross in a pattern, often random)
walk (traverse or cover by walking)
stride (cover or traverse by taking long steps)
hop (make a quick trip especially by air)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
Opinions on bombing the Serbs cut across party lines
Hypernyms (to "cut across" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Cut using a diagonal lines
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
crosscut; cut across
Hypernyms (to "cut across" is one way to...):
cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
