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LOOK ACROSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does look across mean? 

LOOK ACROSS (verb)
  The verb LOOK ACROSS has 1 sense:

1. be oriented in a certain directionplay

  Familiarity information: LOOK ACROSS used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LOOK ACROSS (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Be oriented in a certain direction

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

look across; look out on; look out over; overlook

Context example:

The apartment overlooks the Hudson

Hypernyms (to "look across" is one way to...):

lie (be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something


 Context examples 


If you look across the street, you will see Admiral Brand coming down and his brother.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Then your eyes ceased to pucker, but you continued to look across, and your face was thoughtful.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On one side you look across the bowling-green, behind the house, to a beautiful hanging wood, and on the other you have a view of the church and village, and, beyond them, of those fine bold hills that we have so often admired.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)



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