Dictionary Definition
traverse
Noun
2 a horizontal crosspiece across a window or
separating a door from a window over it [syn: transom]
3 taking a zigzag path on skis [syn: traversal]
4 travel across [syn: traversal]
Verb
1 travel across or pass over; "The caravan
covered almost 100 miles each day" [syn: track, cover, cross, pass over,
get
over, get across,
cut
through, cut
across]
2 to cover or extend over an area or time period;
"Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3
acres"; "The novel spans three centuries" [syn: cross, span, sweep]
3 deny formally (an allegation of fact by the
opposing party) in a legal suit [syn: deny]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- a UK /ˈtɹəˌvə(ɹ)s/ /"tr@%v@(r)s/
Noun
- A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing.
Related terms
Verb
- To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
- He will have to traverse the mountain before he gets to the other side.
- transitive computing To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly; as, to traverse all nodes in a network.
Translations
to travel across, often under difficult
conditions
- Portuguese: atravessar
- Spanish: atravesar
- Urdu:
computing: to visit all parts of; to explore
thoroughly
Italian
Adjective
traverse- Feminine plural form of traverso
Noun
traverse- Plural of traversa
Extensive Definition
For the 2009 crossover vehicle, see Chevrolet
Traverse.
In fortification, a traverse
is a mass of earth or other material employed to protect troops
against enfilade.
It is constructed at right angles to the parapet manned by the
defenders, and is continued sufficiently far to the rear to give
the protection required by the circumstances, which, moreover,
determine its height.
In artillery, a gun is said to
traverse when it is rotated around a vertical axis to bear upon a
military target.
In Mountain
Climbing, to traverse is the action of climbing or descending a
steep hill at a wide angle in order to avoid injury, risk of
falling, and exhaustion while walking.
In surveying, a traverse is 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.
References
traverse in Bulgarian: Траверса
traverse in German: Traverse
traverse in Dutch: Traverse
traverse in Norwegian: Travers
traverse in Russian: Траверс
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
across,
across the grain, athwart, athwartships, bar, be at cross-purposes, be
contrary to, belie,
boat, bridge, buck, call into question, canoe, carry sail, challenge, check, circumnavigate, coast, combat, conflict with, consider, contemplate, contest, contradict, contrariwise, contravene, contrawise, controvert, counter, counteract, countervail, counterwork, course, cover, crisscross, cross, cross bitt, cross-grained,
crossarm, crossbar, crosscut, crossing, crosspiece, crossway, crossways, crosswise, cruciate, cruise, cut across, decussate, deny, disaffirm, dismiss, dispute, do, doubletree, duel, examine, fight, gainsay, go across, go against,
go by ship, go on shipboard, go over, go to sea, hurdle, impediment, impugn, inspect, intercross, intersect, investigate, join the
opposition, lie across, look at, look into, look over, make a
passage, measure,
motorboat, navigate, negate, negative, not abide, oblique, obliquely, observe, obstruct, obstruction, oppose, oppugn, overpass, overthwart, pace, pass over, pass through,
patrol, perambulate, peregrinate, pererrate, play at
cross-purposes, ply,
protest, quarter, range, range over, rebut, reconnoiter, reject, repel, resist, review, roam, row, rub, run, run against, run counter to,
sail, sail round, sail the
sea, scan, scour, scour the country, scout, scrutinize, scull, seafare, sideways, sidewise, singletree, snag, squash, squelch, steam, steamboat, study, stumbling block, survey, sweep, swingletree, take a voyage,
take issue with, thwart,
thwartly, thwartways, tour, track, tramp, transept, transit, transom, transversal, transverse, transversely, travel over,
travel through, tread,
vote against, voyage,
walk, wander, whippletree, withstand, yacht