Definitions for traverse

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traverse trav·erse

Spelling: [trav-ers, truh-vurs]

IPA: /ˈtræv ərs, trəˈvɜrs/

Traverse is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 248 anagrams from letters in traverse (aeerrstv).

Definitions for traverse

noun

1. the act of passing across, over, or through.
2. something that crosses, obstructs, or thwarts; obstacle.
3. a transversal or similar line.
4. a place where one may traverse or cross; crossing.
5. Architecture. a transverse gallery or loft of communication in a church or other large building.
6. a bar, strip, rod, or other structural part placed or extending across; crosspiece; crossbar.
7. a railing, lattice, or screen serving as a barrier.
8. Nautical. the zigzag track of a vessel compelled by contrary winds or currents to sail on different courses. each of the runs in a single direction made in such sailing.
9. Fortification. a defensive barrier, parapet, or the like, placed transversely. a defensive barrier thrown across the terreplein or the covered way of a fortification to protect it from enfilade fire.
10. Gunnery. the horizontal turning of a gun so as to make it point in any required direction.
11. Machinery. the motion of a lathe tool or grinding wheel along a piece of work. a part moving along a piece of work in this way, as the carriage of a lathe.
12. Surveying. a series of intersecting surveyed lines whose lengths and angles of intersection, measured at instrument stations, are recorded graphically on a map and in numerical form in data tables. Compare closed traverse.
13. Law. a formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the other side.

adjective

1. lying, extending, or passing across; transverse.

verb (used with object)

1. to pass or move over, along, or through.
2. to go to and fro over or along.
3. to extend across or over:
4. to go up, down, or across (a rope, mountain, hill, etc.) at an angle:
5. to ski across (a hill or slope).
6. to cause to move laterally.
7. to look over, examine, or consider carefully; review; survey.
8. to go counter to; obstruct; thwart.
9. to contradict or deny.
10. Law. (in the law of pleading) to deny formally (an allegation of fact set forth in a previous pleading). to join issue upon.
11. to turn and point (a gun) in any direction.

verb (used without object)

1. to pass along or go across something; cross:
2. to ski across a hill or slope on a diagonal.
3. to turn laterally, as a gun.
4. Fencing. to glide the blade toward the hilt of the contestant's foil while applying pressure to the blade.

Origin of traverse

1250-1300; (v.) Middle English traversen Middle French traverser to cross Late Latin trānsversāre, derivative of Latin trānsversus (see trans-, Examples for traverse

It is in your power to make their bed of down, and to enliven the ground they have yet to traverse with flowers.

He was known to traverse Brooklyn to visit somebody a decade older than himself in a nursing home.

The blows of the sea seemed to traverse it in an unringing, stunning shock, from side to side.

The heat makes beads of sweat run down your armpits and traverse your hips before dampening your drawers.

Maps are enormous, and players have to traverse huge amounts of terrain.

Extend your Fourth of July vacation with a trip to traverse City, also known as the “cherry capital of the world.”

Elizabeth Banks stars as a woman who has to traverse a city after losing her wallet post-one-night stand.

They believed the range might yet show a rift at this end which their wagons could traverse.

"I was just telling Miss Day that she was much better, sir," said traverse.

"Mother, this is Doctor Day, come to see you," said traverse.