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Traverse

Definition: Traverse

Traverse

Noun

1. A horizontal beam that extends across something.

2. A horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it.

3. Taking a zigzag path on skis.

4. Travel across.

Verb

1. Travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day".

2. To cover a wide area; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres".

3. Deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "traverse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Traverse

DomainDefinition

Computing

Traverse traversal. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Chemical Industry

A -- is one complete movement of the bobbin upward or downward. Source: European Union. (references)

Industry

The distance the ring rail moves upward or downward in any one winding cycle is spoken of as a --. Source: European Union. (references)
 The. . . term -- is. . . used to designate the length of barrel covered by yarn when the bobbin is full. Source: European Union. (references)
 The distance between extreme positions of the thread-guide in one cycle of its movement. Source: European Union. (references)

Military

A segment of parapet built to protect from enfilading fire. (references)

Military & Defense

To turn a weapon to the right or left on its mount. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

Reconnaissance gravity survey of the total area comprising east-west gravity lines. Source: European Union. (references)
 A. A sequence or system of measured lengths and directions of straight lines connecting a series of surveyed points (or stations) on the Earth's surface, obtained by or from field measurements, and used in determining the relative positions of the points (or stations) b. A line surveyed across a plot of ground c. To make a traverse; to carry out a traverse survey. See also:traverse survey d. A vein or fissure in a rock, running obliquely and in a transverse direction e. A line across a thin section or other sample along which grains ofvarious minerals are counted or measured. (references)

Sports & Leisure

Skiing straight or diagonally across the fall line. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Traverse

Synonyms: crossbeam (n), crosspiece (n), transom (n), trave (n), traversal (n), cover (v), cross (v), cut across (v), cut through (v), deny (v), get across (v), get over (v), pass over (v), span (v), sweep (v), track (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Traverse

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Counteraction

Verb: counteract; run counter, clash, cross; interfere with, conflict with; contravene; jostle; go against, run against, beat against, militate against; stultify; antagonize, block, oppose; traverse; withstand; (resist); hinder; repress; (restrain); react; (recoil).

Hindrance

Obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off; belay, barricade; block the way, bar the way, stop the way; forelay; dam up; (close); put on the brake; Noun: scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel; put a stop to; traverse, contravene; interrupt, intercept; oppose; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude.

Journey

Flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the country; peragrate; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about; expatiate.

Negation

Dispute; impugn, traverse, rebut, join issue upon; bring in question, call in question; (doubt); give (one) the lie in his throat.

Passage

Verb: pass, pass through; perforate; (hole); penetrate, permeate, thread, thrid, enfilade; go through, go across; go over, pass over; cut across; ford, cross; pass and repass, work; make one's way, thread one's way, worm one's way, force one's way; make a passage form a passage; cut one's way through; find its way, find its vent; transmit, make way, clear the course; traverse, go over the ground.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Traverse

English words defined with "traverse": AmundsenBoom ironclocking, croquet, cross, Cross wiresdofitnessGabionadeParadosRoald Amundsensail, seaworthiness, span, stride, sweepTo go over, Transfer table, Traversed, TraversingUnthread, untraversablewalk. (references)
Specialty definitions using "traverse": air coursing, azimuth angleBUFFING-MACHINE OPERATORcat run, closed traverse, closing error, color paste, contact logging, Coulter counter, Curfew Bell, curtain pole, curtain rod, cyclomatic complexitydelay time, DYED-YARN OPERATORelectric logging, Energetic particles, ENGRAVER, TIRE MOLDFINISHING-MACHINE OPERATOR, FLASH RANGING CREWMEMBER, forming fixer, FORMING-MACHINE ADJUSTER, frautschy bottleguide winder, GUIDE-BASE WINDER, MACHINEHigh Energy Particlesin-order traversal, Ion Channelslinear plot, linear sample plotNettleton methodopen traversepacket over air, PINSETTER ADJUSTER, AUTOMATIC, plain net, planer-type milling machine, plano-milling machine, portal-frame-type milling machinerace condition, RAILROAD-CAR-TRUCK BUILDERsample indicator line, sample strip, side shot, SINGE WINDER, single-approach pit bottom, skein winder, SKEINER, skid-machine operator, skin-milling machine, string survey, SUPERVISOR, ASSEMBLY ROOM, surface-cum-seepage drainstransect plot, transition time, TRAVERSE-ROD ASSEMBLER, tug reeduptwist spinner, UPTWISTER TENDERYARN-TEXTURING-MACHINE OPERATOR I. (references)
Etymologies containing "traverse": Travers. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Traverse" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (cross-beam, crosses, crossing, crossing point, cross-piece, going through, stretcher, template, transom, traverse), German (traverse).

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Modern Usage: Traverse

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Well, does it take more guts to twice traverse a staircase in a burning building, or to make a one-time leap into a volcano (Joe Versus the Volcano; writing credit: John Patrick Shanley)

I have to traverse my own landscape (The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love; writing credit: Maria Maggenti)

Lyrics

Traverse the skies (Stand Inside Your Love; performing artist: Smashing Pumpkins)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Traverse

DomainTitle

Books

  • First Across the Roof of the World: The First-Ever Traverse of the Himalayas-5,000 Kilometres from Sikkim to Pakistan (reference)

  • Quantum Ising Phases and Transitions in Traverse Ising Models (Lecture Notes in Physics. New Series M, Monographs, M41) (reference)

  • Random Thoughts As We Traverse The New Millennium (reference)

  • Terror Stalks Traverse City (Michigan Chillers, 2) (reference)

  • The Crooked Tree: Indian Legends and a Short History of the Little Traverse Bay Region (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Traverse

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Traverse work on Florida's West Coast Traverse crew off of HYDROGRAPHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

First Tellurometer traverse by C&GS Atka Island traverse Party off of EXPLORER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

West of Traverse City, Michigan. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Tractor-train heading up Skelton Glacier McMurdo Station to South Pole traverse. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Bridging a crevasse. McMurdo Station to South Pole traverse. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Aerial view of orchards and vinyards. Grand Traverse County, Michigan. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Strip cropping with hay, Grand Traverse County, Michigan. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Concrete livestock lot. Grand Traverse County, Michigan. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Roofed and concrete wall solid manure stacking facility with settling basin and filter strip. Resource Conservationist Tom Adams and landowner in foreground. Grand Traverse County, Michigan. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Farmstead diversion in Grand Traverse County, Michigan. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Traverse
 

"Crystal Lake" by Kevin Autrey
Commentary: "A small lake near Traverse City, Michigan."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Traverse

AuthorQuotation

Horace

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Traverse

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The great public assassinations, the political and religious butcheries, traverse this vault of civilisation, and push their dead into it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Traverse

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The project will begin at an interconnection with El Paso Natural Gas, Co., traverse southeastern California and northern Baja California, Mexico, and end at an interconnection with the Rosarito Pipeline, south of Tijuana. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Traverse

"Traverse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.30% of the time. "Traverse" is used about 223 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)71.3%15924,860
Lexical Verb (infinitive)20.63%4650,285
Lexical Verb (base form)8.07%1882,615
                    Total100.00%223N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Traverse

The following table summarizes the usage of "traverse" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
TraverseLast name13067,047
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Traverse

Expressions using "traverse": a traverse Grand Traverse County to solve a traverse To traverse a yard to work a traverse Toll traverse Traverse board traverse city Traverse County Traverse drill traverse jury traverse level traverse motion Traverse sailing Traverse table traverse wheel. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "traverse": hand-traverse.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Traverse

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

traverse city mi

2,248

traverse city weather

31

traverse city

1,066

grand traverse

30

traverse city michigan

679

city park state traverse

29

traverse city record eagle

385

traverse city motel

28

traverse city hotel

334

camping city traverse

28

grand traverse resort

200

traverse city bed breakfast

26

cherry city festival traverse

134

grand mall traverse

24

traverse

72

holiday inn traverse city

23

traverse city real estate

66

campground city traverse

22

city great lodge traverse wolf

65

traverse city michigan real estate

22

chamber city commerce traverse

64

auto grand traverse

22

traverse city michigan hotel

62

city news traverse

21

traverse city lodging

51

city park traverse water

21

traverse rod

50

traverse city restaurant

21

grand traverse resort and spa

44

city public school traverse

19

traverse city resort

43

city map traverse

19

city newspaper traverse

38

area city public school traverse

19

grand traverse county

34

city great lodge mi traverse wolf

19

traverse city mi hotel

33

traverse city golf

18

airport city traverse

31

city great lodge michigan traverse wolf

18
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Traverse

Language Translations for "traverse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tërthor (abeam, aslant, athwart, criss cross, cross, sidelong, sideways, transversal, transverse), pengesë (balk, bar, barrier, baulk, block, boom, chock, clog, cramp, crash barrier, cumber, detention, difficulty, dike, disadvantage, drag, drawback, encumbrance, fetter, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hitch, hold up, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, interruption, jamming, liability, manacle, mash, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, pullback, retardation, retardment, rub, setback, stay, stoppage, stumbling block, stumbling-stone, stunt, trip up), kaloj nëpër, kryqëzohem (intersect), kthim (conversion, double, handover, metamorphosis, rebate, rebound, recall, recovery, repercussion, restitution, return, transformation, turn, turnabout), kundërvënie (confrontation, contradistinction, contraposition, contravention, reaction), lëvizje anash, ledh (bank, bar, barrier, dike, levee), mur mbrojtës, distancë (carry, distance, race, space, way), përshkoj (cover, do, penetrate, percolate, permeate, pervade, voyage), zbres me zigzage, pengoj (arrest, baffle, balk, baulk, block, clog, cross, cumber, delay, detain, embarrass, encumber, estop, foil, forbid, frustrate, get in the way, hamper, handicap, hedge in, hinder, hobble, impede, inhibit, interfere, interfere with, interrupt, jam, keep away from, let, obstruct, occlude, oppose, preclude, prevent, prohibit, resist, set back, shut in, stumble, trammel, trouble), rrotullim (circumgyration, cycle, gyration, revolution, rotation, spin, torsion, turn, turning, twirl, wheel, whirlabout), rrotulloj (crank, gyrate, revolve, rotate, slue round, spin, swing, swivel, twist, whirl), rrugë (approach, approaches, Avenue, course, cycle, drag, drive, gateway, haul, journey, milage, mileage, path, pathway, ride, road, roadway, route, Street, trail, way), shqyrtoj (analyse, analyze, assay, bolt, call, canvass, case, check, check over, debate, discuss, explore, inspect, investigate, look into, look over, look through, moot, peruse, process, scrutinize, see, see into, study, talk over, think out, vet, view), vete-vij (wigwag), vijë ndërprerëse, përshkim (permeation, pervasion). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ذرع (measure), ‏شرفة (balcony, gulp, niche, overhang, porch, slot, terrace, tier, veranda, verandah), ‏شق طريقه بين الجماهير, ‏أدار المدفع, ‏أعار (borrow, lend, loan, second, transfer), ‏أعاق (baulk, clog, disserve, fix, hamper, obstacle, obstruct), ‏إجتاز (accomplish, cover, cross, detour, go over, navigate, outdistance, overpass, overshoot, pound, pull through, rise, roll by, voyage, walk), ‏إعترض (bar, blockade, challenge, cross, demur, except, expostulate, impugn, intercept, interpose, interrupt, intervene, object, object to, obstruct, oppose, protest, remonstrate, stop, take exception to), ‏إمتد عبر كذا, ‏دار على محور (pivot, swivel), ‏جازعة, ‏مقصورة مشكلة بستارة, ‏طريق مختصر, ‏عائق (balk, bar, barrier, clog, deterrent, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, embarrassment, encumbrance, fencing, hamper, handicap, hindrance, impediment, inconvenience, interference, jam, liability, morass, obstruction, obstructive, restraint, setback, shackle, stick, stumbling block, stymie, tie, trammel), ‏عائقة, ‏حاجز (arresting, bail, bar, barricade, barrier, block, dike, divider, division, dyke, fence, jamming, levee, obstacle, parapet, partition, rail, screen, stem), ‏قطع (amputate, amputation, ax, axe, break, cease, cessation, chop off, chopping off, cross, crossing, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut off, cut out, cutoff, cutting off, disconnect, discontinuance, discontinue, divide, dividing, end, exchange, fell, felling, forbid, halt, hew, hinder from, interrupt, intersect, lop, prevent from, scission, section, segment, segmentation, separate, sever, severance, slit, split, stop, sunder, suspend, suspension, tear, terminate), ‏قطع عقبة, ‏نفذ (act, activate, be executed, carry into effect, carry out, come true, commit, computerize, do, effect, effectuate, enforce, execute, fill, fulfil, fulfill, honor, honour, implement, invoke, penetrate, percolate, perform, permeate, petering, pierce, practise, proceed, pursue, put into effect, realize, transfix), ‏معترضة العوامة, ‏الحركة الجانبية لسفينة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

обсъждам основно, преминавам (adjourn, get over, get through, go by, melt, merge, overblow, overpass, pass, pass along, pass away, pass by, pass on, passage, proceed, run, shade, surmount), преграда (baffle, barricade, bulkhead, compartment, division, hedge, hurdle, interception, obstruction, occlusion, partition, railing, screen, septum, stanchion, web), прекосявам (cross, measure, pass over, pass through), пречка (bit, block, blockage, check, clog, cross, difficulty, disadvantage, disqualification, embarrassment, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impediment, kibosh, let, liability, manacle, obstacle, preclusion, pull back, remora, rub, setback, spoke, stay, stop, stumbling-stone), пресичам (come across, congeal, cross, cut across, go over, intercross, interrupt, intersect, intervene, overpass, pass through, passage, transect, truncate), пропътувам (peregrinate, ride, travel), бариера (barrier, gate, railing), изкачвам се лъкатушно, опровергавам твърдение, разглеждам основно, отказ (abandonment, declination, denial, nay, negative, no, refusal, rejection, repulse, surrender, thumbs down), отхвърлям твърдение, отричане (abnegation, denial, denouncement, disavowal, disclaimer, disclamation, proscription, recantation, renouncement, renunciation, repudiation, retractation, retraction), остър завой (hairpin bend, hairpin curve), траверса (crossarm, crossbar, crosspiece, sleeper, tie), чупка (bend, crease, Crinkle, kink, return), хоризонтално насочване, завъртам хоризонтално. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

越过, 橫過 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

traverza (transom), zkřížit (cross, thwart), procestovat (tour, travel), položit napříè, překroèit (disobey, exceed, overdraw, overpass, overstay, overstep, transgress, trespass), přejít (come over, cross, get across, get over, go across, go over, overpass, pass, pass on, pass over, slide), příèný smìr, příèný (diagonal, slant, transverse). (various references)

   

Danish

  

tværbevægelse, slag (action, battle, blow, fight, scuffle, struggle), polygontraek, krydsning (cross, cross breeding, crossbreeding, cross-breeding, crossing, crossroadsÖøø ø è>ô:, decussation, duct, hybridization, interlacing, intersection, junction, road junction, stitch), give sideretning, changering (flop, traversing). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

traverse (cross beam, cross girder, cross member, cross truss), traject (class, course), slag (accomplishment, action, agony, battle, blow, expertness, fight, grasp, kind, knock, movement, scuffle, skilfulness, skill, skillfulness, snare, sort, struggle, trap, turn), kruising (intersection), aanzet (crossfeed, feed, springing). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پیمودن (Mete, Pace, Run, Survey, Wend, Wing), مسیر (Career, Course, Orbit, Path, Point, Race, Run, Strand, Street, Trade, Trajectory, Vector), معبر (Approach, Conduit, Crossover, Cut, Pad, Pathway, Road, Thoroughfare), مانع حاءل , قطع کردن (Burst, Cross, Cut, Disconnect, Discontinue, Excise, Hew, Intercept, Leaveoff, Out, Retrench, Rupture, Stump), گذشتن از (Overpass), حجاب حاجز (Diaphragm), عبورکردن (Cut, Go, Pass, Range, Transit), عبورجاده , طی کردن (Cover, Negotiate), خطمتقاطع , خاکریزیاجان پناه , اشکال (Difficulty, Disadvantage, Drawback, Handicap, Impediment), درب تاشو. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

iskunpituus (stroke). (various references)

   

French

  

traversée. (various references)

   

German

  

durchqueren (cover, cross, Ford, go through, pass through, to cross, to traverse). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

διασταύρωση (cross, cross pollination, crossbreed, cross-fertilization, crossing, junction). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מעקל, לעבור (cover ground, cross, disappear, get through, go, pass, transfer), לחצות (bisect, cross, cut, divide, part), תחום צדוד, צדוד (siding, turning aside). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

átlós irányú, átlós vonal, elválasztó lap, keresztbe haladó, keresztbe futó, keresztbe (across, aslant, aslope, criss cross, criss-cross), keresztül (across, beyond, by, on the other side of, over, through, trans, via), harántgát, gátló körülmény (check, hindrance), gát (bar, barrage, dam, Digue, dike, dyke, hindrance, hurdle, hurdles, impediment, lasher, obstacle, pen, perineum, rampart, seal, shackle, stumbling-block, trammel), áthaladás (crossing, pass, passage, run, transit, transition), elválasztó lemez, keresztsánc, elválasztó fal, ellenkezés (disagreement, opposition, remonstrance, resistance), cikcakkos út, boksz (booth, box, boxing, sabre, stall), átlósan (crossways, diagonally, on the bias), függőleges mozgás, rövidítő út, traverz, transzverzális (transversal), tolópad (travelling platform), tolóajtó (hatch, sash-door, sliding door), tagadás (denial, negation, negative, no, noes, traversing), szilánkfogó földhányás, szerpentinút (serpentine path), keresztben (across, athwart, crossways, thwart, thwart-ship), sorompó (bar, barrier, crossing gates, crossing levels, gates), keresztgerenda (binding joist, crossbeam, ledger, main joist, strutting-beam, transom), oldalsánc (flank), oldalozás (flanker), oldalmozgás (oblique motion, traversing), oldalirányzás (traversing), oldalgás (derivation, drift, lateral, lateral deflection, yaw), létrafok (peg, round, rung, rung ladder, spoke, stave, step), kereszttartó rúd (ridge-pole), visszautasítás (decided refusal, denial, disclaimer, no, noes, non-acceptance, rebuff, refusal, reject, rejection, repudiation, set down, smack in the face, snub, spurn, traversing), szerpentin (green marble, serpentine, sinuous, streamers, zigzag). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menjelajahi (explore, rove, tour), menjajah (colonize, takeo ver (a country), tour), jelajah (tour). (various references)

   

Italian

  

traversa (arbor, beam, crossbar, crossbeam, crosspiece, crossroad, rail, side street). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

縦走 (walk along the ridge), トラップ射撃 (electrical transistor, tradition, traditional, traffic, traffic builder, trance, tranquilizer, transaction, transactional analysis, Trans-Am, trans-American, transceiver, transcription, transformer, transistor, transistor glamour, transit, transnational, transparency, transponder, Transylvania, trap shooting, trappiste, trappistine, travel, travel agency, travel bureau, travel set, travel watch, travelers check, travellers' cheque, travelling, trouble, trouble shot, troublemaker, trouble-shooting, trough, trunk, trunk room, trunks, work). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

トラバース , じゅうそう (baking soda, chief priest, gunshot wound, instrumental ensemble, multilayered, multistoried, sodium bicarbonate, walk along the ridge). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

건너기. (various references)

   

Manx

  

troailt (commute; voyaging, itinerate, journey, labour, negotiate, travel, travelling, trek, trekking, voyage), tessenid (obliqueness), tesmad (cross bar, rung, step of ladder), shooyl (ambulatory, gait, itinerant, pace, perambulate, perambulation, promenade, traversing, tread, treading, vagrant, walk, walking), joltaghey (prance, weave), jiooldey (cast off, deny, disclaim, dismiss, disown, dissent, eliminate, exclude, negate, negation, negative, refuse, reject, rejection, renouncement, repudiate, repudiation, spurn), jannoo tessenid, goll tessen (cross, cross as road, go across, go over, pass across), goll harrish (cross, cross as road, elapse, exceed, get beyond, go over, overpass, roll on, span), cheufort. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aversetray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

travessia (ferry, run), travessão (blank, dash, em dash, main, transom), travessa (bystreet, course, dish, lane, platter), tratar de (care, cross, prevent, talk, tend), movimento transversal, coisa atravessada, cruzar (cross, crossbreed, cruise, grade, hybridize, intersect, roam), curso do guia-fios (stroke), discutir (agitate, argue, canvass, controvert, debate, deliberate, discourse, discuss, dispute, gainsay, knock off, moot, quarrel, rap, reason, spar, strike off, talk over, ventilate), encaminhamento poligonal, atravessar (cross, divide, divvy, fish, go through, intersect, jab, overpass, pass, pass over, penetrate, perambulate, permeate, pervade, pierce, roam, spit, survive, thrust, transfix, travel, trespass), examinar (assay, canvass, catechize, check, check up on, cross, discuss, enquire, examine, explore, eye, go over, have out, inquire, inspect, look, look over, look through, overhaul, peruse, probe, question, quiz, run over, scan, test, turn out, verify, vet, view), versar (cross), parapeito (breastwork, curb, mound, rail, rampart), percurso do terreno, estudar (con, cross, do, learn, read, study, to study, train). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

trece (bequeath, blow over, call, call on, cease, clear away, cross, die, diminish, disappear, elapse, enter, flow, Ford, get in, get under, go, go by, go on, insert, jot down, lapse, lapse away, pass, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, pop, reeve, register, roll, sail, sift, slip away, slip by, transmit, wear), traversã (beam, cross-beam, crosspiece, cross-tie, girder, rail, sleeper, tie piece), traversa (course, cross, go over, go through, pass across, perambulate, run, shoot, step across), transversal (across, Broadways, cross, cross-cut, crosswise, slanting, transversal, transversally, transverse, transversely), stinghie transversalã, se opune (antagonize, balk, baulk, contravene, counter, oppose, repugn, stand, take exception to), piedicã (balk, bar, brake, check, clog, cumber, delay, difficulty, drag, drawback, embargo, encumbrance, fetter, hindrance, hitch, hold back, impediment, interference, jog, lock, marplot, objection, obstacle, obstruction, pull back, sear, set back, sprag, stay, stop, stopper, stopple, stumbling-bloc, trammel, trigger), parcurge (beat up, cover, cross, do, go through, navigate, pace, promenade, range, run, sail, scour, travel through, walk), parapet (battlement, bulwark, fence, parapet), obiecta (expostulate, object), nega (abjure, challenge, deny, disaffirm, disavow, gainsay, impugn, negate, negative, repudiate), loc de traversare, linie transversalã (transversal). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

препятствие (balk, barrier, baulk, block, check, clog, contrariety, countercheck, discouragement, disincentive, drawback, encumbrance, hedge, holdback, hurdle, impediment, leap, manacle, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, pull back, setback), переправляться, перемещаться (ambulate, shift), перемещение (displacement, migration, motion, movement, relocation, removal, staging, transfer, transferal, translation, transmigration, transposition), перекладина (epistyle, horizontal bar, rail, slat, spar, spoke, stave), переходить (cross, devolve, jump, overpass, segue, swing over), пересекать (cross, cut, intersect, overpass, pass, passage, take across), поперечная подача, поперечный (cross, crosscut, diametral, thwart, transversal, transverse), двигаться (get going, move, run, stir), поворот орудия, ход (chain, course, motion, move, movement, passage, rate, run), продольная подача, просматривать поперечина поперечный, обсуждать (canvass, confer, confer together, debate, discuss, discussing, dispute, moot, take up, talk over, think over, ventilate), отрицать (abnegate, deny, disaffirm, disavow, disclaim, gainsay, negate, refuse to acknowledge, say no), возражать (answer, controvert, demur, deprecate, except, mind, object, objected, objecting, oppugn, reclaim, retort, stickle, take exception to, take objection, talk back), возражение ответчика, горизонтальная наводка, траверс, полигональный ход. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zaobilaziti (go around), ukrstiti (cross, crossbreed, hybridize, interbreed), putovati (itinerate, journey, peregrinate, tour, travel), prepreka (ado, balk, bar, barrage, barrier, baulk, difficulty, drag, drawback, hang up, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impeachment, impediment, liability, obstacle, obstruction, set back, setback, snag, static, trammel), prelazak (transit), preći (change over, cote, cover, cover ground, cross, go over, march, overpass, pass over, pass through, shade, shift, transit), poricanje (denial, disavowal, disclaimer, disclamation, retractation, retraction), poreći (deny, disavow, gainsay, retract, unsay), poprečna greda (crossbeam, crosspiece, transom), poprečan (cross, thwart, transversal, transverse), plovidba na cik-cak, kos (awry, bevel, lop-sided, oblique, ousel, ouzel, skew, slant, slantindicular, slanting, slantwise, sloping). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

travesaño (crossbar, crossbeam, cross-piece, rung, transom). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

travers (overhead crane), genomkorsa (criss cross, criss-cross). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

travers (ledger, sleeper, transom), karşı çıkmak (antagonize, argue against smth., be faced with, contravene, deprecate, disaffirm, except, face, go against, go counter to, interpose, mind, object, object to, oppose, protest, protest against, resist, run counter to, set against), çapraz çizgi, çapraz geçiş, çaprazlama geçmek, bir uçtan diğerine çizmek, dikkatle incelemek (anatomize, scrutinize), çapraz (across, bias, cornerwise, crisscross, cross, crossways, crosswise, decussate, diagonal, groined, lattice, slantways, slantwise, thwart, transversal, transverse), karşı çıkma (but, protesting, resistance), zikzaklı gitme, karşıdan karşıya geçirmek, kiriş (balk, baulk, beam, bowstring, catgut, chord, girder, gut, joist, ligament, rafter, rib, sinew, span, string, stringcourse, Stringer, tendinous, tendon, tie, tie beam, timber, wire), mil etrafında döndürmek, zikzak (zigzag), zikzak çizerek gitmek, her iki yöne hareket ettirmek. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

самохід, лежати упоперек, поперечка (cross-arm, jib, joist, rail, yoke), перетинати (cross, intercept, intersect, overgo, overpass, pass through, transverse), перешкода (back-set, baffle, balk, bar, barricade, barrier, block, bridle, check, clog, contrariety, countercheck, cramp, cumber, dike, disability, discouragement, drawback, dyke, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, hitch, hold back, interference, leap, marplot, nuisance, obex, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, occlusor, preclusion, pullback, stop, trammels, wall). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

xà ngang, sự chống lại (counteration, oppugnance, oppugnancy), điều làm trở ngại (impedient, impediment), điều cản trở (difficulty, encumbrance), đặt ngang. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

tramwy (pass). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Traverse

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

circa, circare, confecta, confectaeque, confectum, confectus, confici, conficiat, conficiente, conficiet, mensa, mensae, mensam, mensamque, mensarum, mensas, mensi, mensis, mensura, mensurae, mensuram, mensuramque, mensuras, mensuris, mensus, metiantur, metiar, metiemini, metiens, metientes, metientur, metieris, metietur, metire, metiretur, metiri, metitus, peragro, permetior, transversare, transversus. (various references)

Middle French1400-1600

traverser. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Traverse

Derivations

Words beginning with "traverse": traversed, traverser, traversers, traverses. (additional references)

Words containing "traverse": untraversed. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Traverse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tarver, tranverse, traver, Traversa, Traversez, traverso, travorse, Trevereux, Trevose. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Traverse"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "traverse" (pronounced tra"vers or truver"s)
3-v er sconverse.
4-u v er" saverse.
3-v er" sadverse, diverse, inverse, obverse, perverse, reverse, transverse, verse.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Traverse

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-r-r-s-t-v"

-1 letter: reavers, retears, reverts, serrate, starver, tearers.

-2 letters: aretes, arrest, averse, averts, easter, eaters, eraser, everts, rarest, raster, raters, ravers, reaver, reaves, reseat, rester, retear, revers, revert, revest, revets, searer, seater, server, starer, starve, tarres, tearer, teaser, terrae, terras, terser, traves, vaster, verser, verset, verste.

-3 letters: arete, aster, avers, avert, eater, eaves, erase, ester.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-r-r-s-t-v"
 

+1 letter: harvester, overrates, taverners, travelers, traversed, traverser, traverses, vertebras.

 

+2 letters: advertiser, extraverts, harvesters, overassert, overeaters, overmaster, overreacts, overtrades, overtreats, overwaters, preharvest, privateers, retrievals, revelators, revertants, transverse, travellers, traversers, varletries, venerators, veratrines.

 

+3 letters: adventurers, advertisers, earthmovers, gravimeters, overasserts, overearnest, overharvest, overmasters, perseverate, preharvests, reservation, restorative, transceiver, transverses, traversable, travertines, untraversed, variometers, vertebrates.

 

+4 letters: contraveners, correlatives, extraversion, governorates, gravimetries, overasserted, overgarments, overharvests, overmastered, overoperates, oversaturate, overstrained, perseverated, perseverates, preparatives, prerogatives, preservation, preservative, prevaricates, reinnervates, rejuvenators, reprivatizes, reservations, restoratives, reverberates, tergiversate, transceivers, transversely, veratridines, veterinaries.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Usage Frequency
12. Names: Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Bibliography


  

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