Word: Traverse
How to pronounce: ˈtrævɜːs
Transitive verb
Definitions:
1. Travel across or through.
Example sentences: "He traversed the forest"
2. Move (something) back and forth or sideways.
Example sentences: "A probe is traversed along the tunnel"
3. Deny (an allegation) in pleading.
Example sentences: "The plaintiff must assert certain facts which, if traversed, he would be put to prove"
Noun
Definitions:
1. An act of traversing something.
Example sentences: "High-level walks in the Dolomites often involve steep, exposed climbs, traverses, and descents"
2. A part of a structure that extends or is fixed across something.
Example sentences: "There were three jewels in the traverse of the cross and four in the body"
3. A mechanism enabling a large gun to be turned to face a different direction.
Example sentences: "They had been practicing firing at multiple targets, using the power traverse"
4. A single line of survey, usually plotted from compass bearings and chained or paced distances between angular points.
5. A pair of right-angled bends incorporated in a trench to avoid enfilading fire.
Example sentences: "He crept up and threw a grenade over the traverse"
6. Variant spelling of travers
Adjective
Definitions:
1. (of a curtain rod) allowing the curtain to be opened and closed by sliding it along the rod.
Example sentences: "There is so much on the market today - decorative traverse rods, pole sets, metal or wood rods."
Synonyms:
cross beam
spreader bar
cross member
transom
pass
move
pass over
get across
cover
cross
intersection
intersect
cut across
crosspiece
crossbeam
track
deny
Derivations:
traversing
traversed
traversal
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Traverse in Other Languages...
Spanish: Atravesar
German: Durchqueren
French: Traverser
Italian: Attraversare
Turkish: Travers
