transverse
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
geometry
mathematics
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Latin trānsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”). Doublet of transversal.
Inflected forms:
form: transverses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: transverses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transversing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transversed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: transversed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The units have transverse seats, two and three astride the passageway with single or double longitudinal seats alongside the two entrance vestibules in each car.
Unlike the older trains, the new units have walk-through carriages and longitudinal rather than transverse seating.
gloss: Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting. (For the general definition, see Transversality (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not in direct line of descent; collateral.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: Anything that is transverse or athwart, such as a road or a ship's web frame.
pos: noun
gloss: The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
pos: noun
gloss: To lie or run across; to cross.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To traverse or thwart.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To overturn.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And so long shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed, suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?
gloss: To alter or transform.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In love, it is said, all stratagems are fair, and many little ladies transverse the axiom by applying it to discover the secrets of their friends.
gloss: To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Bayes: Why, thus, Sir; nothing so easy when understood; I take a book in my hand, either at home or elsewhere, for that's all one, if there be any wit in't, as there is no book but has some, I transverse it; that is, if it be prose, put it into verse, (but that takes up some time) and if it be verse, put it into prose.
Related words: transversal
transversion
Derived words: costotransverse
intertransverse
nontransverse
obliquotransverse
occipitotransverse
pretransverse
sacrotransverse
subtransverse
transverse cervical artery
transverse colon
transversectomy
transverse facial artery
transverse flow effect
transverse flute
transversely
transverseness
transverse plane
transverse process
transverser
transverse relaxation time
transverse rib
transverse sinus
transverse tubule
transverse wave
transversity
transversostomy
transverso-
transvers-
Translations:
lang: Māori
word: pae