English dictionary

traverse

noun

Pronunciation

/tɹəˈvɜːs/ /tɹəˈvɝs/

Audio pronunciation

Parts of speech

noun verb adjective adverb

Definitions

noun

  1. A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
  2. A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
  3. A screen or partition.
  4. Something that thwarts or obstructs.
  5. A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
  6. A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
  7. The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
  8. A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
  9. In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
  10. A traverse board.

verb

  1. To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
  2. To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
  3. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
  4. (artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
  5. , To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
  6. To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
  7. To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
  8. To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
  9. To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
  10. To deny formally.
  11. To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.

adjective

  1. Lying across; being in a direction across something else.

adverb

  1. Athwart; across; crosswise

Example sentences

He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control.
He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.
to traverse all nodes in a network
to traverse a cannon
The last run, weary, I traversed the descents in no hurry to reach the lodge.
to traverse a board
paths cut with traverse trenches
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