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CUT ACROSS
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cut using a diagonal line
Synonyms:
crosscut; cut across
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "cut across" is one way to...):
cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Travel across or pass over
Example:
The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day
Synonyms:
cover; cross; cut across; cut through; get across; get over; pass over; track; traverse
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "cut across" is one way to...):
pass (go across or through)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut across"):
tramp (cross on foot)
stride (cover or traverse by taking long steps)
walk (traverse or cover by walking)
crisscross (cross in a pattern, often random)
ford (cross a river where it's shallow)
bridge (cross over on a bridge)
jaywalk (cross the road at a red light)
drive; take (proceed along in a vehicle)
course (move swiftly through or over)
hop (traverse as if by a short airplane trip)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations
Example:
Opinions on bombing the Serbs cut across party lines
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
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
Context examples:
My own accidental cut across the knuckles was a flea-bite.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The thong was cut across, diagonally, almost as clean as though done by a knife.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The shears were gone altogether. The guys had been slashed right and left. The throat-halyards which I had rigged were cut across through every part. And he knew I could not splice.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow—a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He had armed himself with a draw-knife from the tool-locker, and with this he prepared to cut across the throat-halyards I had again rigged to the shears.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The caterwauling horns had reached a crescendo and I turned away and cut across the lawn toward home.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
