TRAVERSED

Definition: TRAVERSED

TRAVERSED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Traverse

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "TRAVERSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

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	The Great monster, Republican, having traversed great part of Europe--but see Britania[sic] and roused her lion to give this monster, a proper reception. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	On the north-east and east: from the last point defined above to a point about 3 1/2 kilometres east-north-east of Saint-Wendel: a line to be fixed on the ground passing east of Furschweiler, west of Roschberg, east of points 418, 329 (south of Roschberg) west of Leitersweiler, north-east of point 464, and following the line of the crest southwards to its junction with the administrative boundary of the Kreis of Kusel thence in a southerly direction the boundary of the Kreis of Kusel, then the boundary of the Kreis of Homburg towards the south-south-east to a point situated about 1000 metres west of Dunzweiler; thence to a point about 1 kilometre south of Hornbach- a line to be fixed on the ground passing through point 424 (about 1000 metres south-east of Dunzweiler), point 363 (Fuchs-Berg), point 322 (south-west of Waldmohr), then east of Jagersburg and Erbach, then encircling Homburg, passing through the points 361 (about 2-1/2 kilometres north-east by east of that town), 342 (about 2 kilometres south-east of that town), 347 (Schreiners-Berg), 356, 350 (about 1-1/2 kilometres south-east of Schwarzenbach), then passing east of Einod, south-east of points 322 and 333, about 2 kilometres east of Webenheim, about 2 kilometres east of Mimbach, passing east of the plateau which is traversed by the road from Mimbach to Bockweiler (so as to include this road in the territory of the Saar Basin), passing immediately north of the junction of the roads from Bockweiler and Altheim situated about 2 kilometres north of Altheim, then passing south of Ringweilerhof and north of point 322, rejoining the frontier of France at the angle which it makes about 1 kilometre south of Hornbach (see Map No. 2 scale 1/100,000 annexed to the present treaty). (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	At moments, Marius covered his face with his hands, and the vague past tumultuously traversed the twilight which filled his brain.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Women and girls dressed in long vivid gowns traversed the street from house to house.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Franklin Pierce	1853-1857	The field of calm and free discussion in our country is open, and will always be so, but never has been and never can be traversed for good in a spirit of sectionalism and uncharitableness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"TRAVERSED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 54.70% of the time. "TRAVERSED" is used about 117 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	54.7%	64	42,009
Lexical Verb (past tense)	45.3%	53	46,657
Total	100.00%	117	N/A

Language		Translations for "TRAVERSED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		�"�登 (Traversing). (various references)

Danish		i store blokke findes ofte ghost-lines,der,efter at de er loebet gennem en zone med ligeaksede korn,brat hoerer op ved graensen til det paafoelgende V-lag,der bestaar af globulare dendritter (after having traversed a zone of equiaxed grains, in large ingots ghosts are sometimes found which, stop abruptly at the limit of the following V-shaped zone of globular dendrites). (various references)

Dutch		in grote gietblokken treft men soms ghost-lines aan die,nadat zij een zone met equi-axiale korrels hebben doorkruist,plotseling stoppen bij de grens van een volgende V-vormige zone die uit globulaire dendrieten bestaat (after having traversed a zone of equiaxed grains, in large ingots ghosts are sometimes found which, stop abruptly at the limit of the following V-shaped zone of globular dendrites). (various references)

Finnish		maassa risteilee rautateitä (the country is traversed by railways). (various references)

French		tronçon parcouru en captage (section traversed in overhead mode), on trouve parfois dans les gros lingots des veines sombres qui, après avoir traversé une zone de grains équiaxes, s'arrêtent brusquement � la limite de la couche en V suivante composée de dentrites globulaires (after having traversed a zone of equiaxed grains). (various references)

German		durchquerte, durchquert (traverses). (various references)

Greek		εντός ευμεγέθων πλινθωμάτων παρατηρούνται συχνά "φαντάσματα" τα οποία έχοντας διασχίσει μια ζώνη ισαξονικών κόκκων σταματούν απότομα στο . (various references)

Italian		Nei lingotti di grosso spessore si trovano a volte delle venature le quali, dopo avere attraversato una zona a cristalli equiassiali, terminano bruscamente al bordo dello strato a V seguente composto di dendriti globulari (after having traversed a zone of equiaxed grains, in large ingots ghosts are sometimes found which, stop abruptly at the limit of the following V-shaped zone of globular dendrites). (various references)

Korean		횡단하�" (transversal). (various references)

Manx		troailtit (crossed, travelled), immeeit harrish (crossed). (various references)

Pig Latin		aversedtray

Portuguese		encontram-se por vezes nos grandes lingotes veias escuras que,após terem atravessado uma zona de grãos equiaxiais,param bruscamente no limite da camada em V seguinte composta de dendrites globulares (after having traversed a zone of equiaxed grains, in large ingots ghosts are sometimes found which, stop abruptly at the limit of the following V-shaped zone of globular dendrites). (various references)

Spanish		algunas veces, en los lingotes grandes se encuentran líneas de sombra que, después de haber atravesado una zona de granos equiaxiales, se detienen bruscamente en el límite de la capa en V siguiente compuesta por dendritas globulares (after having traversed a zone of equiaxed grains, in large ingots ghosts are sometimes found which, stop abruptly at the limit of the following V-shaped zone of globular dendrites). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "TRAVERSED": untraversed. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"TRAVERSED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tranversed, Traversa, Traversez, traverso, travorse, travorsed. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "TRAVERSED" (pronounced truver"st)
4	-v er" s t	conversed, reversed, versed.
3	-er" s t	burst, coerced, cursed, disbursed, dispersed, durst, emersed, first, headfirst, Hurst, immersed, interspersed, nursed, pursed, rehearsed, reimbursed, submersed, thirst, unrehearsed, worst, Wurst.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-r-r-s-t-v"
	-1 letter: arrested, retreads, serrated, traverse, treaders.
	-2 letters: adverse, adverts, averred, averted, darters, dearest, derates, evaders, readers, reavers, redates, redears, rereads, retards, retears, retread, reverts, sedater, serrate, starred, starved, starver, tearers, traders, treader.
	-3 letters: advert, aretes, arrest, averse, averts, darers, darter, daters, dearer, deaves, derate, derats, desert, deters, devest, drears, easter, eaters, erased, eraser, evader.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-r-r-s-t-v"
	+1 letter: advertiser, overtrades.
	+2 letters: adventurers, advertisers, untraversed.
	+3 letters: overasserted, overmastered, overstrained, perseverated, veratridines.
	+4 letters: overadvertise, overdecorates, overharvested, oversaturated, peradventures, tergiversated.
	+5 letters: daredeviltries, overabstracted, overadvertised, overadvertises, overdramatizes.
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