Preposition

(English prepositions)

A close but separated relationship.

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#Close to.(rfex)

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#In front of; before a background.

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#In physical contact with.

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#In physical opposition to, or in collision with.

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A contrasting or competitive relationship.

#In contrast and/or comparison with.

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#In competition with, versus.

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#*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

#*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 24, author=Aled Williams, work=BBC Sport

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#In opposition to.

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, title= Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist), passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.

In exchange for.(rfex)

As counterbalance to.(rfex)

As a charge on.(rfex)

As protection from.

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, passage=Monoclonal antibodies were raised against these proteins: IN-1 and IN-2 bound both to the 35 kd and 250 kd inhibitors and to the surface of differentiated cultured oligodendrocytes.}}

(lb) Exposed to.(rfex)

In anticipation of; in preparation for (a particular time, event etc.).

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*:He wrote to a friend of his, that he lived but with browne bread and water, and entreated him to send him a piece of cheese, against the time he was to make a solemne feast.

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).

* 1994 June 21, Thong P Tong <tongtp@coyote.cig.mot.comcoyote.cig.mot.com>, "Re: Battle Tech Center", message-ID <2u7lsi$79n@delphinium.cig.mot.com>, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games , Usenet [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games/msg/28d5e0700985bbe6]:

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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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Chico Harlan

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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.