单词 | cut across |
释义 | > as lemmasto cut across a. transitive. To divide, separate, pierce, intersect, run into or through: expressing relative position, not motion. Also intransitive with through, etc. and to cut across (figurative). ΘΠ the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > intersect [verb (transitive)] crossc1400 overcarvec1400 cut?a1475 intersect1615 decussate1658 decuss1782 transect1861 the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] > go beyond (bounds) > not recognize (boundaries) to cut across1927 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 47 And from that hit [sc. Watling Street] kyttethe ouer [L. transcindit] Seuerne nye to Worcestre. a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1616) sig. Dv Just through the midst runnes flowing Tybers streame, With winding bankes that cut it in two parts. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 31 Places very hot..in regard the Æquinoctial cuts them. 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. 314 Serpentine mountains, which it [steatite] cuts through in small, perpendicular, or rake veins. 18.. J. G. Whittier Norembega vii Yon spire..That cuts the evening sky. 1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 919 The old part of the path which the line had cut across. 1927 A. M. Carr-Saunders & D. C. Jones Surv. Social Struct. Eng. & Wales 83 But these other associations cut across industrial, occupational, and income classifications. 1960 R. Davies Voice from Attic 38 We exist as a class which cuts across all classes. cut across 17. intransitive. To cross, to pass straight through or across; esp. cut over, cut across (adv. or preposition). ΘΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > pass straight through or across cut1551 to cut over1551 cleave1655 1551 in Acts Privy Council (1891) III. 320 The Marishall..woll passe by lande to Dovour, and from thens cutt over to Bulloigne. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 207 Thus haue I walked about this whole Diocoese: now therefore let me cutte ouer to Watlingstreete. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 163 Except the ships cut and take course even justlie betweene both, they hardlie scape drowning. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxviii. ii. 669 b Before that he cut over the streights of Gibraltar to Gades. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. ii. 88 Cutting thorow the Magelanike Straits..he encompassed the whole world. 1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 500 A few of the most active cut across to the shallows. 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xiv. 47 They cut across the deer studded park. < as lemmas |
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