Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word TRAVERSE

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Definitions of TRAVERSE

1. Something that thwarts or obstructs.
2. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
3. To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
4. To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
5. athwart; across; crosswise
6. Lying across; being in a direction across something else.
7. (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
8. (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.
9. (obsolete) A screen or partition.
10. (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
11. (legal) 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).
12. (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
13. (geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
14. (military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
15. (nautical) A traverse board.
16. (transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
17. (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
18. (artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
19. (climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
20. (engineering, skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
21. (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
22. (legal) To deny formally.
23. (intransitive, fencing) To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
24. A French surname from French.

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