traverse

Meaning

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. (obsolete) 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. (transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
2. (transitive) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
3. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
4. 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. (intransitive) To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.

Adv

athwart; across; crosswise

Adj

Lying across; being in a direction across something else.

Synonyms

cross

pass over

traversal

pass

cover

travel

cut through

deny

crosspiece

sweep

crossbeam

get across

track

span

go across

get over

trave

walk

🚶

crossing

transom

pass through

transversal

go through

cut across

cut

travel over

traversing

cross over

beam

thwart

run through

oppose

roam

cut out

cut back

cut away

controvert

chiasma

contravene

cruise

crosswise

confute

carve

ambulate

guide line

crossroads

gyrate

impediment

impugn

go over

Translations

traverser

kreuzen

atravesar

عبر

traversieren

atravessar

überqueren

durchqueren

doorkruisen

durchlaufen

travessada

attraversare

διασχίζω

recorrer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹəˈvɝs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: traversen

In summary

From Middle English traversen, from Old French traverser, from Latin trans (“across”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of Latin vertere (“to turn”).

Sentences

Majerle was born in Traverse City , Michigan .