traverse

traverse
v
1. pass over, move over, travel over, tour, fare; range, ply, wander, roam, track; cover, sweep, peregrinate; tramp, trek, ramble, march, walk; sail, voyage, cruise, navigate, make a passage; ford, cross, overpass, cut across.
2. cross, go across, intersect, lie across; extend across, stretch across, bridge, connect, bring together; transverse, intercross, crisscross, crossbar.
3. examine, consider, contemplate, observe, look into; review, pass in review, look over, take stock of, make note of, audit; inspect, scan, scour, reconnoiter.
4. obstruct, hinder, impede, thwart, foil, balk; interfere with, retard, frustrate; oppose, counter, contravene, counteract.
5. deny, contradict, counter, controvert; gainsay, negate, reject, disavow, disclaim; dispute, challenge, contest, call into question; impugn, rebut, go against, oppugn, take issue with, join issue with.
n
6. crossbar, crosspiece, transverse, transversal, transcept, crossarm; whiffletree, whippletree, swingle-tree, singletree, doubletree.
adj
7. transverse, cross, crossing, horizontal, oblique.

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  • Traverse — Trav erse, n. [F. traverse. See {Traverse}, a.] 1. Anything that traverses, or crosses. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • traverse — Traverse. subst. fem. Piece de bois qu on met de travers, pour en assembler ou pour en affermir d autres. Il faudroit mettre là une traverse, des traverses. Traverse, Terme de fortification. Il se dit d Une tranchée qui se fait dans un fossé sec… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Traverse — (von französisch traverse ‚Querbalken‘) bezeichnet: einen Querbalken, Ausleger in der Technik ein Verbindungsstück zur Aufnahme von Kräften: Traverse (mechanischer Träger), einen mechanischen Träger Traverse (Veranstaltungstechnik), einen… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Traverse — Trav erse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Traversed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Traversing}.] [Cf. F. traverser. See {Traverse}, a.] 1. To lay in a cross direction; to cross. [1913 Webster] The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • traversé — traversé, ée (tra vèr sé, sée) part. passé de traverser. 1°   Au travers de quoi on a passé. •   L océan, étonné de se voir traversé tant de fois, BOSSUET Reine d Anglet.. •   Le rocher traversé, se présente un abîme, LAMOTTE Fabl. IV, 13.… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • traverse — [trə vʉrs′, trav′ərs; ] for n. [, ] adj. [, & ] adv. [, trav′ərs, trə vʉrs′] vt. traversed, traversing [ME traversen < OFr traverser < VL < * transversare < L transversus, pp. of transvertere, to turn across < trans , TRANS +… …   English World dictionary

  • Traverse — Trav erse, a. [OF. travers, L. transversus, p. p. of transvertere to turn or direct across. See {Transverse}, and cf. {Travers}.] Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. [1913 Webster] Oak …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • traverse — proprement, c est une sente ou rue qui destourne à Travers du droict et grand chemin, Via transuersa, Selon ce dit on, les postes estre assises en traverse, quand la Cour estant hors grand chemin, les postes laissent le droict de leur assiette,… …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • traversé — Traversé, [travers]ée. part. Il a les significations de son verbe. On dit d Un cheval fort de dessous, & large de poitrail, qu Il est traversé, bien traversé. On dit aussi quelquefois, d Un homme, d un soldat qui est d une taille quarrée, & qui a …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

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