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Definitions: Get Across |
Get AcrossVerb1. 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 AcrossSynonyms: 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) |
Crosswords: Get Across |
| English words defined with "get across": American football ♦ put over. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "get across": IBM 1620 ♦ LAN party ♦ story. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
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. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(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. | |
Expressions using "get across": get across the river ♦ get across to. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 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) gå hem, komma över (come across, come by, come over, come round, pot). (various references) 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) aюyrmak. (various references) викласти. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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). | |
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 74      41 63 72 6F 73 73 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01000001 01100011 01110010 01101111 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e t   A c r o s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 0074      0041 0063 0072 006F 0073 0073 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4171862356984818585 |
| 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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