Sekirov Dictionary

traverse

UK /tɹəˈvɜːs/US /tɹəˈvɝs/

verb 11
noun 10
adjective 1
adverb 1
forms 5

verb11

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To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
- He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.
To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
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To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
- My purpose is to […] traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice—ingratitude. — 1675
To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
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To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- 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.
To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
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To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds. — 1695
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To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- The well meaning Priest suffered him to deceive himself, fully determined to traverse his views, instead of seconding them. — 1764
To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
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To deny formally.
- 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: […] — 1701
To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.

noun10

a climbing route that goes up a mountain or rock by one side and comes down by another, crossing over the top
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a zigzag path that a ship follows to travel from one place to another
- Two years earlier another U.S. submarine, U.S.S. Nautilus, had made history by completing the first undersea traverse of the North Pole. — 1990
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an obstacle to what someone is trying to do
- He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control.
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In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- At night, when the Federal guns slowed their fire, the men created new traverses and bombproofs. — 1994
a series of points across or around an area of land, with the distance and angle from each point to the next measured by surveyors, usually as a base for their later work
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).
a line in geometry that crosses a shape or crosses two or more other lines
a raised walkway that joins one side of a large building to the other, as in some churches
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A traverse board.
- 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. — 1789
(no longer used) a partition that shuts off part of a room or hall from the rest

adjective1

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Lying across; being in a direction across something else.
- paths cut with traverse trenches

adverb1

athwart; across; crosswise

forms

traversed · traversing · traverses · more traverse · most traverse

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