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Definition: Traverse |
TraverseNoun1. 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. Verb1. 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) |
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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) |
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Synonyms: TraverseSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. |
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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) | |
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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. |
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| "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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Horace | You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The great public assassinations, the political and religious butcheries, traverse this vault of civilisation, and push their dead into it. |
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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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 71.3% | 159 | 24,860 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 20.63% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.07% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Total | 100.00% | 223 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Traverse | Last name | 130 | 67,047 |
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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. | |
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Ending with "traverse": hand-traverse. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| 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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 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 French | 1400-1600 | traverser. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "traverse": traversed, traverser, traversers, traverses. (additional references) | |
Words containing "traverse": untraversed. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "traverse" (pronounced tra"vers or truver"s) |
| 3 | -v er s | converse. |
| 4 | -u v er" s | averse. |
| 3 | -v er" s | adverse, diverse, inverse, obverse, perverse, reverse, transverse, verse. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 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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