Definition of traverse

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Traverse (a.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.

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Journey :: Journey (v. t.) To traverse; to travel over or through.
Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
Trance :: Trance (v. t.) To pass over or across; to traverse.
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..
Course :: Course (n.) The ground or path traversed; track; way.
Basin :: Basin (n.) A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river..
Traverse :: Traverse (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..
Earthquake :: Earthquake (n.) A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock..
Traverser :: Traverser (n.) One who traverses, or denies..
Patrol :: Patrol (v. i.) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
Odometer :: Odometer (n.) An instrument attached to the wheel of a vehicle, to measure the distance traversed; also, a wheel used by surveyors, which registers the miles and rods traversed..
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..
Trace :: Trace (v. t.) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
Rheophore :: Rheophore (n.) A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a 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..
Cheval-de-frise :: Cheval-de-frise (n.) A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
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