Definitions for get across
get across

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. get across, put oververb

   communicate successfully

   "I couldn't get across the message"; "He put over the idea very well"

2. click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into placeverb

   become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions

   "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow"

3. traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut acrossverb

   travel across or pass over

   "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. get acrossverb

   To cross; to move from one side (of something) to the other, literally or figuratively.

2. get acrossverb

   To make an idea evident; to successfully explain a thought or feeling.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. get across

   "Get across" generally refers to the action of successfully conveying or communicating an idea, message or information clearly so others could understand it. It can also mean successfully moving from one side to another, usually when referencing a physical barrier such as a road or river etc.

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1. • Communicate
   • Pass

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of get across in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of get across in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of get across in a Sentence

1. Todd Abel:

   It did get across 77. We did... get aircraft in the air, and to try to catch this, what we call a slop over. It slopped over our containment line.

2. Herschel Walker:

   Everybody realizes that regardless of any disagreements that do or don’t exist, everybody needs to focus on one thing: helping Herschel get across the finish line.

3. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka:

   You can't win a struggle without irritating those who you are trying to convert, we need to get across the message that feminism is not about hating men, hating those who don't buy into our agenda, but it is about extending and advancing women's rights .. and ending the deep prejudices against women that still exist.

4. Peter Wallace:

   In the last month there's been a huge increase -- there's been about 120 people or so that have claimed they've come from Iran, they were trying to get across in dinghies and before they were trying to get through the tunnel or in the back of lorries, but it's been this huge change in the last month with over 100 people, including little tiny children, trying to get across the whole Channel in little tiny boats.

5. Carolyn Lam Su Ping:

   The idea that stress can be related to ischemia and even a heart attack is an important message to get across.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=get across
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Get_Across
3. ^ ChatGPT
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