TRAVERSE
\tɹɐvˈɜːs], \tɹɐvˈɜːs], \t_ɹ_ɐ_v_ˈɜː_s]\
Definitions of TRAVERSE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a horizontal beam that extends across something
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deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
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taking a zigzag path on skis
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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"
By Princeton University
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a horizontal beam that extends across something
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deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
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taking a zigzag path on skis
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
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Athwart; across; crosswise.
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Anything that traverses, or crosses.
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Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
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A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
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A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
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A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.
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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; that is, without this which follows.
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The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
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A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
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A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
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The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
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A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.
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To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
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To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.
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To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
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To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
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To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
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To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
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To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it.
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To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.
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To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel; as, the needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.
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To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.
By Oddity Software
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Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
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Athwart; across; crosswise.
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Anything that traverses, or crosses.
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Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
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A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
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A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
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A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.
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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; that is, without this which follows.
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The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
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A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
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A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
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The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
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A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.
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To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
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To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.
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To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
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To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
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To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
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To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
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To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it.
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To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.
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To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel; as, the needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.
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To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.
By Noah Webster.
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Lying or being across.
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Athwart or crosswise.
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A crosspiece; something placed across something else; a passage across.
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To lay or place crosswise; to thwart or cross in opposition; to cross in traveling.
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To turn, as on a pivot; to walk or move across.
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Traversed.
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Traversing.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Turned or lying across: denoting a method of cross-sailing.
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Anything laid or built across: something that crosses or obstructs: a turn: (law) a plea containing a denial of some fact alleged by an opponent: a work for protection from the fire of an enemy.
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To cross: to pass over: to survey: (law) to deny what an opponent has alleged.
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(fencing) To oppose a movement: to direct a gun to the right or left of its position.
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TRAVERSER.
By Daniel Lyons
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TRAVERSER.
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To move across; pass through or over.
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To examine carefully.
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To deny; oppose; thwart.
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Anything that traverses; a crosspiece; screen; barrier.
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The act of traversing; a journey; passage; denial.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Anything across; a barrier; plea containing a denial.
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Lying across.
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To cross; to deny an allegation.
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To move crosswise.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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adv. Crosswise; athwart.
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n. Any thing that traverses or crosses;-something that thwarts or obstructs:-a cross accident:-in architecture, a barrier, movable screen, or curtain;- gallery or loft of communication in a church or other large building ;-a work thrown up to intercept an enfilade or reverse fire along any line of work;- in law, a formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings;-in geometry, a line or plane cutting or intersecting other lines or planes; --in navigation, the variation of a ship’s course, or the zig-zag line of its progress caused from tacking, wearing, leeway, cross currents, &c. ;-a flexure ; a turning;-a subterfuge; a trick.