traverse

noun

/tɹəˈvɝs/US/tɹəˈvɜːs/UK

Etymology

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

derived from vertere — “to turn”
derived from trans — “across”
derived from traverser
inherited from traversen

Definitions

A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs…
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…
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.
- 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.
3
A screen or partition.
- 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.
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1. 4
  Something that thwarts or obstructs.
  - He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control.
2. A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
3. A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the…
  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).
4. The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another
  The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
5. A line lying across a figure or other lines
  A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
6. 9
  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.
7. 10
  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.
8. 11
  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.
  - What seas you travers'd, and what fields you fought! / Your country's peace how oft, how dearly bought!
9. 12
  To visit all parts of
  To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
  - to traverse all nodes in a network
10. 13
  To lay in a cross direction
  To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
  - The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds.
11. 14
  To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
  - to traverse a cannon
12. To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
13. 16
  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.
14. 17
  To act against
  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.
  - I cannot but […] admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse.
15. 18
  To pass over and view
  To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
  - My purpose is to […] traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice—ingratitude.
16. 19
  To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
  - to traverse a board
17. 20
  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: […]
18. To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
19. athwart
  athwart; across; crosswise
20. 23
  Lying across
  Lying across; being in a direction across something else.
  - 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
21. A surname from French.

The neighborhood

Derived

traversing platform

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at traverse. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at traverse. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at traverse

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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