Definition of traverse

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Traverse (a.) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.

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Patrol :: Patrol (v. i.) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
Electrode :: Electrode (n.) The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current..
Traverse :: Traverse (v. i.) To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other..
Pathfinder :: Pathfinder (n.) One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions.
Round :: Round (n.) A course ending where it began; a circuit; a beat; especially, one freguently or regulary traversed; also, the act of traversing a circuit; as, a watchman's round; the rounds of the postman..
Traverse :: Traverse (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..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
Traverser :: Traverser (n.) One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like..
Tubulidentate :: Tubulidentate (a.) Having teeth traversed by canals; -- said of certain edentates.
Gabionade :: Gabionade (n.) A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
Barruly :: Barruly (a.) Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field.
Sweep :: Sweep (v. i.) To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope..
Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse..
Traverser :: Traverser (n.) One who traverses, or denies..
Semidiurnal :: Semidiurnal (a.) Pertaining to, or traversed in, six hours, or in half the time between the rising and setting of a heavenly body; as, a semidiurnal arc..
Radiograph :: Radiograph (n.) A picture produced by the Rontgen rays upon a sensitive surface, photographic or fluorescent, especially a picture of opaque objects traversed by the rays..
Unthread :: Unthread (v. t.) To make one's way through; to traverse; as, to unthread a devious path..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.
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