Cut Across

Definition: Cut Across

Cut Across

Verb

1. Travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day".

2. Be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations; "Opinions on bombing the Serbs cut across party lines".

3. Cut using a crosscut.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Cut Across

Passage

Verb: pass, pass through; perforate; (hole); penetrate, permeate, thread, thrid, enfilade; go through, go across; go over, pass over; cut across; ford, cross; pass and repass, work; make one's way, thread one's way, worm one's way, force one's way; make a passage form a passage; cut one's way through; find its way, find its vent; transmit, make way, clear the course; traverse, go over the ground.

Crosswords: Cut Across

Dash into shore, cut across shipping lanes (The Perfect Storm; writing credit: William D. Wittliff)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A stream cut across the fields, and the highway crossed it on a small concrete bridge.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Within Korea, the Ministry of Government and Home Affairs (MOGAHA) has the lead on disaster-related issues although many program responsibilities and procurements cut across the bureaucratic spectrum from the federal, provincial, and local levels. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

Since environmental issues cut across so many industry sectors, it is very difficult to come up with a meaningful dollar figure for estimated market potential. (references)

Trade

Luxembourg

There are a number of EU-wide and member-state standards governing various product categories, as well as health and safety standards, which cut across product categories. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "cut across": cut across country ♦ To cut across. Additional references.

Albanian

bie përmes. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قطع (amputate, amputation, ax, axe, break, cease, cessation, chop off, chopping off, cross, crossing, cut, cut away, cut down, cut off, cut out, cutoff, cutting off, disconnect, discontinuance, discontinue, divide, dividing, end, exchange, fell, felling, forbid, halt, hew, hinder from, interrupt, intersect, lop, prevent from, scission, section, segment, segmentation, separate, sever, severance, slit, split, stop, sunder, suspend, suspension, tear, terminate, traverse), ‏تقاطع (cross, junction, section), ‏إختصر الطريق (short circuit, take a short cut). (various references)

Bulgarian 

в разрез съм (discord), пресичам (come across, congeal, cross, go over, intercross, interrupt, intersect, intervene, overpass, pass through, passage, transect, traverse, truncate). (various references)

Chinese 

刎 . (various references)

Czech

proříznout. (various references)

French

traverser, se croiser, recouper. (various references)

German

hinübergehen (cross, cross over, go across, go over, to go over, walk across, walk over), herübergehen (come across). (various references)

Greek 

αντιβαίνω (go against). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקצר (abbreviate, curtail, short, shorten). (various references)

Hungarian

átvág (have sy on, intersect, saw through, to intersect, to nick sy for sg, to take a short cut, transect). (various references)

Italian

tagliare (blend, carve, chop, clip, cross, cut, cut down, cut off, fell, get cut, hack, hew, knife, mow, reap, short cut, slice, snip, trim). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

突っきる (to cross, to cut across, to go across, to go through), 突っ切る (to cross, to cut across, to go across, to go through). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つっきる (to cross, to cut across, to go across, to go through). (various references)

Pig Latin

utcay acrossay

Russian 

сократить путь, идти вразрез. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prevazići (exceed, outbalance, outgo, overrun), prekoračiti (contravene, exceed, go beyond, outstep, overdraw, over-draw, overpass, overstep, transcend, transgress, violate), ići preko. (various references)

Spanish

cortar camino (cut corners, take a shortcut), cortar al través, cortar (ax, axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, chop, clip, comminute, crop, cut, cut away, cut down, cut in, cut off, cut out, cut up, decapitate, detruncate, disbranch, excise, exscind, fell, hack, incise, intersect, joint, lop, lop away, lop off, lumber, mow, Nick, nip, open, pare, pick, pluck, prune, sever, shear, shear off, shear through, shut off, slice, slit, snick, strike off, tear off, trim away, trim off, turn off, turn out, Whittle), tomar un atajo, atravesar (break through, cross, go across, go beyond, go over, outstep, overpass, Pierce, put, transfer, traverse), atajar (head off, intercept, tackle). (various references)

Swedish

ta en genväg genom, skära igenom (intersect, notch). (various references)

Turkish

kestirmeden gitmek (make a beeline for, take a short cut, take a shortcut), karşı gelmek (argue, beard, bridle, buck, controvert, defy, go against, object to, oppose, recalcitrate, transgress), geniş kapsamlı olmak, geçmek (abate, adjourn, be current, be over, be transmitted, be valid, beat, best, better, cap, catch, change to, clear, come down, cross, devolve, distance, elapse, exceed, Excel, expire, fit in, get through, go, go by, go down, go out, have outgrown smb., interlace, intervene, lapse, leave behind, negotiate, outdistance, outdo, outgo, outgrow, outpace, outrange, outrival, outrun, outstrip, pass, pass away, pass beyond, pass by, pass into, pass off, pass on, pass over, pass up, permeate, ride, rub on, run, run out, subside, surpass, top, tower above, track, transmigrate, turn, wear off), üstün olmak (be over smb., get the better of, give points to smb., have the edge on smb., have the edge over smb., have the whip hand of, outclass, outdo, outperform, precede, predominate, preponderate, preponderate over, surpass, take precedence of, tower above, transcend). (various references)

Ukrainian

суперечити (belie, conflict with, contradict, counter, disagree, gainsay), охоплювати (blanket, comprehend, comprise, cover, encircle, grip, grow on, lap, overtake, overwhelm, prepossess, rap, wrap), заважати (baffle, balk, clog, embar, embarrass, empeach, hinder, impeach, incommode, interfere, obscure, obstruct, preclude, prohibit). (various references)

Misspellings

"Cut Across" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cut acrose. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: crosscut, surcoats.

-2 letters: accosts, accurst, castors, corsacs, costars, sarcous, soucars, stuccos, succors, surcoat, turacos.

-3 letters: accost, across, actors, ascots, assort, cactus, castor, coacts, coasts, corsac, costar, courts, crocus, crusts, custos, occurs, roasts, rousts, scarts, scaurs, scours, scouts, scrota, soucar, stours, stucco, succor, sutras, tarocs, tarsus, turaco, tussar, tussor.

-4 letters: actor, arcus, ascot, ascus, autos.

+1 letter: coruscates.

+2 letters: crustaceous, scoutcrafts.

+3 letters: coruscations, cotransduces, subcontracts.

+4 letters: chiaroscurist, cosurfactants, stercoraceous.

+5 letters: antiscorbutics, chiaroscurists, pococurantisms, subcontractors.