traverse

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English traversen, from Old French traverser, from Latin trans (“across”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of Latin vertere (“to turn”). === Pronunciation === All parts of speech: (General American) IPA(key): /tɹəˈvɝs/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɹəˈvɜːs/ Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s Hyphenation: tra‧verse Alternative noun pronunciation: (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɹævɚs/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɹævəs/ Hyphenation: trav‧erse === Noun === traverse (plural traverses) (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent. (surveying) 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. (obsolete) A screen or partition. Something that thwarts or obstructs. (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building. (law) 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). (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course. (geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal. (military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade. (nautical) A traverse board. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== References ==== === Verb === traverse (third-person singular simple present traverses, present participle traversing, simple past and past participle traversed) (transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions. (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly. To lay in a cross direction; to cross. (weaponry) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target. (climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope). (engineering, skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate. To act against; to thwart or obstruct. To pass over and view; to survey carefully. 1675, Robert South, Of the odious Sin of Ingratitude (A Sermon preached at Christ-Church, Oxon, October 17, 1675) My purpose is to […] traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice—ingratitude. (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood. (law) To deny formally. (intransitive, fencing) To use the motions of opposition or counteraction. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Adverb === traverse (comparative more traverse, superlative most traverse) athwart; across; crosswise === Adjective === traverse (comparative more traverse, superlative most traverse) Lying across; being in a direction across something else. paths cut with traverse trenches ==== Derived terms ==== traverse drill === Anagrams === averrest, averters == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tʁa.vɛʁs/ IPA(key): /tʁa.vɛʁs/ === Etymology 1 === From Vulgar Latin traversa, feminine of traversus. ==== Noun ==== traverse f (plural traverses) crossing (literary) obstacle, hurdle (rail transport) sleeper (UK), tie (US) (mechanics) crosspiece byway, shortcut === Etymology 2 === Inflected forms. ==== Verb ==== traverse inflection of traverser: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive second-person singular imperative === Further reading === “traverse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === réservât, reversât == Italian == === Adjective === traverse feminine plural of traverso === Noun === traverse f plural of traversa === Anagrams === varreste