Traversing
['trævɝs]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Traverse
(a.) Adjustable laterally; having a lateral motion, or a swinging motion; adapted for giving lateral motion.
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Examples
- 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.
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