Preposition

(English prepositions)

To, toward or from the far side of (something that lies between two points of interest).

On the opposite side of (something that lies between two points of interest).

(Southern US, AAVE)  On the opposite side, relative to something that lies between, from (a point of interest).

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And make sure you're parked across the mall in the outside lot. Last time I was there, I parked in a parking structure and paid an arm and a leg for it.

* 1995 , (Ronald Kessler), Inside the White House , 1996 edition, ISBN 0671879197, page 243 [http://books.google.com/books?id=lJz-yIZNE2sC&pg=PA243&dq=across]:

On another occasion, Clinton asked to drive him to Chelsea's school, Booker Elementary, where Clinton met the department store clerk and climbed into her car.

"I parked across the entrance and stood outside the car looking around, about 120 feet from where they were parked in a lot that was pretty well lit," Patterson recalled. "They stayed in the car for thirty to forty minutes."

From one side to the other within (a space being traversed).

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At or near the far end of (a space).

* 2004 , (Josephine Cox), Lovers and Liars , ISBN 0060525479, page 78 [http://books.google.com/books?id=MSZf-siTBGUC&pg=PA78&dq=across]:

"Mam's baking and Cathleen's asleep. I've got a pile of washing bubbling in the copper, so I'd best be off." With that she was across the room and out the door.

Spanning.

Throughout.

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So as to intersect or pass through or over at an angle.

* 2010 , (Alex Bledsoe), The Girls with Games of Blood , , ISBN 9780765323842, page 147 [http://books.google.com/books?id=3O878YujdCEC&pg=PA147&dq=across]:

He parked across the end of the driveway, blocking her in.

Preposition

(English prepositions)

At the back of.

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To the back of.

After, time- or motion-wise.

*1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)

*:About the center, and a good way behind the rest, Silver and I followed - I tethered by my rope.

Responsible for.

In support of.

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Left a distance by, in progress or improvement; inferior to.

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*Bible, xi.5:

*:I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.