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Get Across

Definitions: Get Across

Get Across

Verb

1. Communicate successfully; "I couldn't get across the message"; "He put over the idea very well".

2. Become clear suddenly; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him".

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

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

Synonyms: Get Across

Synonyms: click (v), come home (v), cover (v), cross (v), cut across (v), cut through (v), dawn (v), fall into place (v), get over (v), get through (v), pass over (v), penetrate (v), put over (v), sink in (v), track (v), traverse (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Get Across

English words defined with "get across": American footballput over. (references)
Specialty definitions using "get across": IBM 1620LAN partystory. (references)

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Use in Literature: Get Across

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Granma and Grampa raced each other to get across the broad yard.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Spoken Usage: Get Across

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Robert Shapiro

I'm going to try. It was a wonderful experience, a great learning experience, a tremendous discipline. But also, on top of a read, I think what I wanted to get across was to be a facilitator for an issue that hasn't been discussed yet.

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

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Expressions: Get Across

Expressions using "get across": get across the river get across to. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: Get Across

Language Translations for "get across"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

přejet (pass, run over), přejít (come over, cross, get over, go across, go over, overpass, pass, pass on, pass over, slide, traverse), osvìdèit se (acquit oneself well, approve, make good, prove oneself to be, turn out), mít odezvu, být pochopen (get over). (various references)

   

French

  

traverser (get through), pénétrer (get through), faire passer (get over, get through). (various references)

   

German

  

beibringen (break to, furnish, get across to, get to understand, inflict, instill, produce, supply, teach). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

περνώ ένα μήνυμα (put over). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sikerre visz (make a hit, to bring off, to get across, to put over, to put sg across), keresztülvisz (bulldoze, get through, to get across, to get through, to implement, to put over), összeveszik vkivel (to fall out with sy, to get across sy), átkel a folyón (get across the river), átjut (get over, scrape through, to get across, to get over, to negotiate). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cur tessyn. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etgay acrossay

   

Spanish

  

surtir efecto (act, work), ser comprendido (come across), pasar (blow over, bypass, come, come about, come by, come down, come in, come off, cross, dilute, draw, elapse, enact, ensue, expend, function, gait, get, get by, get over, get through, give, go, go by, go off, go on, go over, go past, go through, goffer, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, happen, kick around, knot, lapse, last, light out, line, live, live through, move, occupy, occur, outdo, overstep, overtake, pass, pass across, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, pass round, passing, pop in, post, proceed, put across, put down, reach, relay, render, ride by, roll by, run, shift, skip, smuggle, spend, strain, suffer, swallow, take away, throw out, tick away, tick by, to pass, to spend, touch, tough, turn, turn about, turn around, turn over, wear off, wear on, while), lograr cruzar, lograr comunicar (get through), hacer pasar (admit, bring in, get through, let in, pass off, put through, show in, usher), hacer entender (get over, get through, put across, put over), hacer comprender (get over, get through). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gå hem, komma över (come across, come by, come over, come round, pot). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kızdırmak (aggravate, anger, annoy, badger, bait, bug, burn, chafe, enrage, exacerbate, exasperate, gall, get in one's hair, heat, heat up, huff, incense, inflame, infuriate, irritate, nettle, overheat, peeve, play to, provoke, put about, put out, put smb. out of temper, put smb.'s nose out of joint, rile, rough the wrong way, rouse, ruffle smb.'s temper, steam up, superheat, tease, twit, vex), beğenilmek (be approved of, go down, sell, win recognition), anlaşılmak (appear, be understood, come out, prove, seep in, sink in), açıklamak (account, account for, account for smth., clarify, clear, clear up, declare, declassify, deliver oneself, develop, dilate, dot the i's, elucidate, enucleate, evidence, explain, explicate, expound, express, give smth. publicity, impart, intimate, lay open, make smth. clear, plead, render, set up, show, show forth, spit out, state, unclose, unfold, unveil). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

aюyrmak. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

викласти. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Get Across

Misspellings

"Get Across" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: get accross. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Get Across

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: escargots.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-o-r-s-s-t"

-1 letter: coarsest, coasters, corsages, escargot, socagers, storages.

-2 letters: actress, cargoes, casters, castors, coaster, coaters, corsage, corsets, costars, costers, escorts, garotes, gasters, orgeats, recasts, scoters, sectors, socager, socages, stagers, storage.

-3 letters: across, actors, argots, ascots, assert, assort, asters, cagers, caress, carets, cargos, carses, cartes, caster, castes, castor, caters, cestas, cestos, coarse, coasts, coater, corses, corset.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-o-r-s-s-t"
 

+2 letters: categorises, gastroscope, goatsuckers.

 

+3 letters: gastroscopes, overcastings, scattergoods, shortchanges, spectrograms.

 

+4 letters: archeologists, cosignatories, gastrectomies, gastrocnemius, gastroscopies, gesticulators, secretagogues, shortchangers, spectrographs, subcategories.

 

+5 letters: archaeologists, coastguardsmen, ergastoplasmic, prognosticates, serodiagnostic, subcategorizes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Get Across


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 65 74      41 63 72 6F 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01000001 01100011 01110010 01101111 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#101 &#116 &#32 &#65 &#99 &#114 &#111 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0065 0074      0041 0063 0072 006F 0073 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4171862356984818585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Quotations: Spoken
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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