Traverse
['trævəs;trə'vɜːs] or [trə'vɝs]
Definition
(verb.) deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit.
(verb.) travel across or pass over; 'The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day'.
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Definition
(a.) Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
(adv.) Athwart; across; crosswise.
(a.) Anything that traverses, or crosses.
(a.) 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.
(a.) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
(a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
(a.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.
(a.) 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.
(a.) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
(a.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
(a.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
(a.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
(a.) A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.
(a.) To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
(a.) To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.
(a.) To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
(a.) To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
(a.) To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
(a.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
(a.) 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.
(v. i.) To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.
Edited by Dwight
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Cross.[2]. Thwart, obstruct.[3]. Pass, travel over, wander over.[4]. (Law.) Deny.
Edited by Josie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cross, thwart, obstruct, survey, explore
ANT:Pass, omit, sanction, permit, overlook, disregard, elude, avoid, pretermit
Inputed by Bobbie
Definition
adj. turned or lying across: denoting a method of cross-sailing.—n. 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: a gallery from one side of a large building to another.—v.t. to cross: to pass over: to survey: to plane across the grain of the wood: (law) to deny an opponent's allegation.—v.i. (fencing) to use the motions of opposition or counteraction: to direct a gun to the right or left of its position.—adv. athwart crosswise—(obs.) Trav′ers.—adj. Trav′ersable that may be traversed or denied.—ns. Trav′erser; Trav′erse-tā′ble a table or platform for shifting carriages to other rails; Trav′ersing-plat′form a platform to support a gun and carriage which can easily be turned round.
Editor: Murdoch
Examples
- I cannot but in some sense admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse by the following considerations. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Cakes of dates pounded and kneaded together are the food of the Arabs who traverse the deserts. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Railroads traverse it in every direction, north, south, east, and weSt. The mines are worked. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Who can follow an animal which can traverse the sea of ice, and inhabit caves and dens, where no man would venture to intrude? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Can you not draw me a rough map of the country we must traverse, Dejah Thoris? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I could not rest under the imputation that I visited Florence and did not traverse its weary miles of picture galleries. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Our troops gained first one traverse and then another, and by 10 o'clock at night the place was carried. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands, and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene labours. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I was on my downward way then, but the dreary, dreary road I have traversed since! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In this state they traversed without change, except of horses and pace, all the mire-deep leagues that lay between them and the capital. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Some weeks before this period I had procured a sledge and dogs, and thus traversed the snows with inconceivable speed. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The above-mentioned highway traversed the lower levels of the heath, from one horizon to another. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They had not traversed many steps of the long main staircase when he stopped, and stared at the roof and round at the walls. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The distance that they had to go was very short, but he was at his building work again before the carriage had half traversed it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This model showed itself capable of traveling at high speed on a single rail, rounding sharp curves and even traversing with ease a wire cable hung in the air. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But in no respect is it a strict traversing of past stages. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Sound travels very quickly through the air, traversing ten hundred and ninety feet in a second, but it reaches forty-seven hundred feet away under water in the same time. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Whether he had really been to any one, or whether he had been all that time traversing the streets, was never known. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She was soon ascending Blooms-End valley and traversing the undulations on the side of the hill. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He was traversing the scorching sands of a mighty desert, barefoot and alone. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Granite abounds in crystallized earthy materials, and these occur for the most part in veins traversing the mass of the rock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The rebels made a desperate effort to hold the fort, and had to be driven from these traverses one by one. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It will thus be seen that the primary current passes through the transmitter, and the secondary traverses the line. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Traverses had, therefore, been run until really the work was a succession of small forts enclosed by a large one. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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