单词 | traversing |
释义 | traversingn. The action of traverse v. (in various senses); esp. the action or an act of travelling, moving, or going through or across something. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [noun] > travelling across or through passagec1300 transita1500 traversing1524 traverse1563 thorough-faring?1575 pass1602 peragration1611 traject1852 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > [noun] mootingOE disputinga1225 mootc1225 sputingc1250 disputisounc1290 arguingc1385 sputisounc1390 debate1393 determinationc1400 luyte1477 disputation1489 dispicion?1510 argumenta1513 plead?a1513 traversing1524 dispicience1531 ruffle1532 debatement1536 argumentationa1538 debating1548 pro et contraa1554 canvassing1565 litigation1567 toil1597 discussion1598 tongue-work1598 agitation1600 canvass1611 fence1637 contestation1638 dispute1638 tongue-fence1643 actitation1661 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [noun] > across traversing1524 going-over1556 traverse1563 crossing1575 river crossing1839 traversal1851 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > other processes framing1440 riving?1440 traversing1524 wedging1678 furring1679 cocking1710 bearding1711 battening1788 rossing1839 thicknessing1870 splining1901 parting off1905 reconditioning1932 stress grading1936 spindle moulding1979 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > aiming by lateral movement traversing1524 the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > action upon > drawing circumscription1570 adscription1636 traversing1690 traverse1905 1524 tr. J. de Bourbon Begynnynge & Foundacyon Holy Hospytall sig. C.iiv The enmyes had way to mounte vpon the towne walles, & come to hande with vs by trauersynge of theyr trenches to the fallen erth within the bracke. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea lvi. 131 It is most proper for shippes, to haue short Ordinance... The reasons are many: viz. easier charging..better traversing, and mounting. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iv. 65 This way of Cross-Grain'd working, is, by Workmen called Traversing. 1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 641 Let these two Examples suffice for Traversing both by Protraction, Calculation, and by the Traverse Table. 1823 Morning Post 13 Dec. How..are these wretched men to realize the advantages proposed to be derived from the traversing of their trial? 1883 Contemp. Rev. June 883 Forty years' laborious traversing of record offices and corporate archives. 1905 J. C. Wilson On traversing Geom. Figures 1 On the continuous description or traversing of Geometrical Figures. 2010 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 24 July (News review section) 3 A traversing of boundaries in the opposite direction. Compounds General use as a modifier. ΚΠ 1888 F. Rutley Rock-forming Minerals 18 Mechanical traversing arrangements..are rather an encumbrance than an advantage. 1945 C. E. Balleisen Princ. Firearms App. B 139 Screw-actuated elevating and traversing mechanisms were included. 2008 Experimental Thermal & Fluid Sci. 33 12/1 These measurements were done using a silica coated B-Type thermocouple..mounted on traversing equipment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). traversingadj.ΚΠ a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 127 (MED) This argument is sideling to the askyng. So shall I make the in this poynt a traversing discrecion withowt fourme of answer. 2. Chiefly Law and in legal contexts. That challenges, opposes, denies, or postpones something. Cf. traverse v. 1.† traversing jury n. a jury convened to consider an issue arising from the decision of another jury; = traverse jury n. (a) at traverse n. Compounds (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > jury > [noun] > appeal jury traversinga1500 traverse jury1746 a1500 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Rawl.) (1974) 140 I therfor have compiled this litill tretice which I call ‘Quadrilougue’ forasmoche as this matir is comprised in foure maner of persoones in maner of moote or plee forasmoche as it procedith by the maner of trauersing wourdis. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 151 This Proclamation was no sooner ended, but the Covenanters were ready with a traversing Protest against it. 1823 Rep. Sel. Comm. Sewers Metropolis 17 in Parl. Papers V. 1 Some courts..think two juries necessary, one in the nature of a grand jury, and the other in the nature of a traversing jury. 1910 R. G. Anderson Synopsis Common Law Pleading & Procedure 24 This is an express contradiction in terms of some single material matter in the prior pleading... It is properly used only where the traversing party is certain of his ground. 2015 Official Code Georgia Annotated XVI. 200/2 When traverse is filed, burden of proof is upon traversing party. 3. That extends or is situated across something; positioned crosswise; transverse. Cf. traverse adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > [adjective] overthwart1228 thwart-overa1387 transversaryc1400 thwart1404 thwartingc1430 transversalc1440 transversantc1440 traversea1450 thorter1488 cross1523 overthwarting1552 traversed1561 traversing1561 transverse1621 overcrossa1661 transverseda1711 crossway1865 crosswise1903 1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation iii. ix. sig. K i See also that the markes whiche you make in the yarde [= cross-staff], be trauersyng lines. 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 476 In distributing of Musical Notes,..care ought to be taken to save the edges of the traversing lines from battering. 1890 Jrnl. Royal Inst. Cornwall 10 143 The apparently heaved lode seems to be actually the older..whether its mineral filling traverses the heaving lode or not, but the traversing deposit is undoubtedly the newer. 2014 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 30 July 17 An intriguing number of traversing paths draw the visitor on an amazing and thrilling horticultural journey. 4. a. Designating a device or part of a mechanism designed to move as part of its operation, rather than being fixed in place. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > [adjective] > moving stirringc950 movablea1382 swayingc1400 moving?a1425 shifting1479 mobile1490 unquiet1539 movent1644 impacifica1657 traversing1785 unstationary1832 unsettled1845 shifty1884 1785 J. Drinkwater Hist. Siege Gibraltar 71 This gun was mounted on a traversing carriage, and was distinguished by the name of the Rock-gun. 1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 294/1 The traversing mandril should be made of the very finest steel. 1975 B. V. Barlow Astron. Telescope vii. 127 The wavelength differences are measured either by examination of the spectrogram with a traversing microscope or..by comparing the comparison and absorption lines. 2008 J. K. Good & D. R. Roisum Winding i. 9 The net effect is a continuous axial production of cores that are cut to length by a traversing saw. b. gen. That traverses or moves through or across a place or thing; (esp.) that travels or goes right through or across a region, area, etc.; characterized by this behaviour.Chiefly as the second element in compounds, as globe-traversing, ocean-traversing, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [adjective] percurrent1578 transcurrent1608 transient1610 traversing1786 1786 R. Burns Poems 59 Aft your moss-traversing Spunkies Decoy the wight that late an' drunk is. 1855 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 1 Nov. Their large and most serviceable fleet of regular ocean-traversing ships. 1946 Amarillo (Texas) Sunday News-Globe 30 June 14/3 Possibilities for lightning warfare opened up by 1,500-mile-an-hour jet engines or tomorrow's globe-traversing rockets. 2011 Times (Nexis) 14 July (Features section) 8 He watched the beautiful ocean-traversing fish throw themselves out of the water and against the mesh of the cage and swore not to eat them ever again. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1524adj.a1500 |
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