traverse
Part of speech: noun
verb
adv
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
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Etymology: From Middle English traversen, from Old French traverser, from Latin trans (“across”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of Latin vertere (“to turn”).
Inflected forms:
form: traverses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: traverses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: traversing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: traversed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: traversed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more traverse
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most traverse
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: more traverse
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most traverse
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: At the entrance of the king, the first traverse was drawn, and the lower descent of the mountain discovered, which was the pendant of a hill to life, with divers boscages and grovets upon the steep or hanging grounds thereof.
gloss: A screen or partition.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Than sholde ye see there pressynge in a pace / Of one and other that wolde this lady see, / Whiche sat behynde a traves of sylke fyne, / Of golde of tessew the fynest that myghte be […]
At the entrance of the king, / The first traverse was drawn.
gloss: Something that thwarts or obstructs.
pos: noun
examples: He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control.
gloss: A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
pos: noun
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
gloss: The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
pos: noun
gloss: A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
pos: noun
gloss: In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
pos: noun
examples: At night, when the Federal guns slowed their fire, the men created new traverses and bombproofs.
gloss: A traverse board.
pos: noun
examples: The whole care of the vessel rested, therefore, upon me, and I was obliged to direct her by my former experience, not being able to work a traverse.
gloss: To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.
What seas you travers'd, and what fields you fought! / Your country's peace how oft, how dearly bought!
Here the line is joined by the Colne Valley branch, and both tracks are carried into Haverhill station upon a high embankment from which the town can be seen on the south side. The twin tracks, after traversing a scissors crossover, become the down and up roads through the station, which possesses an extensive goods yard.
The journey is worth an article in itself, but all I can give is a flavour of a railway which traverses a bleak but dramatic coastline that's regularly battered by the elements - especially around Parton, where the line is constantly threatened by the sea.
gloss: To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to traverse all nodes in a network
gloss: To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
pos: verb
examples: The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds.
gloss: To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
pos: verb
examples: to traverse a cannon
gloss: To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
pos: verb
gloss: To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
pos: verb
examples: the road traversed the face of the ridge as the right-of-way climbed the mountain
The last run, weary, I traversed the descents in no hurry to reach the lodge.
gloss: To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
pos: verb
examples: The well meaning Prieſt ſuffered him to deceive himſelf, fully determined to traverſe his views, inſtead of ſeconding them.
I cannot but […] admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse.
gloss: To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
pos: verb
examples: My purpose is to […] traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice—ingratitude.
gloss: To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
pos: verb
examples: to traverse a board
gloss: To deny formally.
pos: verb
examples: Without their coſt, you terminate the cauſe; / And ſave th' expence of long litigious laws: / Where ſuits are travers'd; and ſo little won, / That he who conquers, is but laſt undone: […]
gloss: To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: athwart; across; crosswise
pos: adv
gloss: Lying across; being in a direction across something else.
pos: adj
examples: paths cut with traverse trenches
Oak […] being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work.
the ridges of the fallow field lay trauerse
Related words: girdle traverse
Grand Traverse County
Grand Traverse disease
hand traverse
Little Traverse
traversal
Traverse City
Traverse County
traverse drill
traverse jury
traverse sailing
traverse table
traversive
travis
Tyrolean traverse
Derived words: nontraversing
retraverse
traversable
traversing platform
untraversed
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