traverse (English, verb)
expansion: traverse (third-person singular simple present traverses, present participle traversing, simple past and past participle traversed)
Senses:
glosses: To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
tags: transitive
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
tags: transitive
glosses: To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
topics: engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
skiing
sports
glosses: To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
glosses: To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
glosses: To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
topics: law
glosses: To deny formally.
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
tags: intransitive
Forms:
form: traverses
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: traversing
tags: participle
present
form: traversed
tags: participle
past
form: traversed
tags: past