Definition of traverse in English:

traverse

verb trəˈvəːsˈtravəstrəˈvərs

[with object]

1Travel across or through.
he traversed the forest
Example sentencesExamples
- He would repeatedly cheer us up by assuring us that our team was the first to uninterruptedly traverse this difficult, and unique, coast-to-coast route.
- Before I knew it, we had traversed Yellowhead Pass, one of the lowest in the Continental Divide, yet, at 3,718 feet, the highest point the train crosses.
- I watched the man with furtive caution as we traversed the forest, for I didn't trust him, even if he did not seem villainous.
- Wild animals and birds traversing contiguous forest stretches have no clue that there might be restrictions.
- In total they covered 67.5 miles, traversing the loch three times, in water that was only a shivering 11 degrees centigrade.
- After three days in the forest, they had spent another four traversing the extensive foothills before reaching the Mountains.
- He spends his summers traversing the Midwest in his studio Winnebago, painting lush forest scenes resplendent with deer, lakes, and waterfalls on things like garage doors.
- ‘Joseph,’ Conall spoke up, as they reached the edge of the forest, having traversed the distance in silence.
- Starting from Taiwan, he traversed the Indian Ocean after passing through the Strait of Malacca.
- From Trowunna I head north, leaving behind the forested hills of the interior to traverse an expanse of rolling countryside strikingly reminiscent of England.
- Deserts were crossed, mountains were scaled, forests were traversed, icebergs were negotiated.
- By the time we had traversed the thickly forested coastal plain it was dark, and nothing could be seen through the windows except the black night.
- The total area traversed by participants covers thousands of square miles.
- Before the advent of roads or railways, the sheer difficulty in traversing Peru's geography was one of the greatest obstacles to solidifying a national identity.
- It has been a long road to freedom, traversing the difficult terrain of learning to live with each other, learning to accept each other.
- That will see him traversing the Americas, covering the 25,000 kilometres from Ushuia, the world's most southern city, up to the icy wastes of Alaska.
- Both traversed the forest swiftly and easily, scurrying over rocks and against foliage with utmost grace.
- It is possible to traverse the entire range by walking the two-thousand-mile Appalachian Trail.
- In traversing the country, you can expect to pass through San Jose a few times, so enjoy yourself.
- In 1991, he traversed the State, covering 2,850 km on a bicycle.
Synonyms
travel over/across, cross, journey over/across, make one's way across, pass over, go across, negotiate
cover
ply
wander, roam, range
1. 1.1 Extend across or through.
  a moving catwalk that traversed a vast cavernous space
  Example sentencesExamples
  Highway 50 traverses a dozen of these valleys and passes; driven in a day they succeed one another like musical variations, with their subtle differences of colour and form.
  The country has a rugged topography, with three Andean mountain ranges traversing the western half, although the country's highest peaks are located off the Caribbean coast in the Sierra Nevada.
  The show presents its monumental architecture, its military might, the way it controlled and administered its dominions through provincial satrapies and the network of roads that traversed its vast distances.
  She stood in the middle of the path that traversed the park, covering her face with her hands.
  In small towns, concrete buildings are strung along the few roads that traverse the islands.
  One current regime traversing the globe and in particular, the United States, is the Federal Communications Commission.
  Empathy with the landscape is expressed not only through the extended architectural promenade that traverses the contours of the site, but also through the material character of the Natatorium.
  Long, gently inclined staircases traverse the interior space, affording glimpses through slits in the gallery ceilings that act as peepholes to events above or below.
  People from elsewhere may be surprised at how good skiing is on the edge of the prairie in northwestern Minnesota, on trails that traverse rolling glacial moraines near Maplelag.
  I choose instead a flat six-mile track traversing Licuala State Forest Park, where the giant fan palms and prehistoric cycad trees start a few feet from the parking lot.
  In Celebration, a narrow band of hot pink, blue and white, trimmed in red, diagonally traverses the glowing disk.
  In order to take advantage of the more moderate terrain and the available real estate, many of the McCoy Park trails traverse the ridge top and lower meadow several times.
  Precontact culture was heavily influenced by the natural terrain as the Ojibwa adapted their lifestyle to survive in a heavily forested land traversed by a network of lakes and rivers.
  This area, the more southerly of the two, is on a steep slope and traversed by a narrow street.
  Numerous active and historic gas and oil utility corridors traverse forests of the region.
  The total Solar eclipse falls on November 23rd and will be visible from within a narrow corridor which traverses the far Southern Hemisphere.
  Synonyms
  extend across, lie across, stretch across, go across, cross, cut across
  bridge, span
2. 1.2no object, with adverbial of direction Cross a rock face by means of a series of sideways movements from one practicable line of ascent or descent to another.
  I often use this route, eventually traversing around the headwall
  Example sentencesExamples
  Right before the steepest section, we were able to traverse onto a rock ledge and have lunch.
  Once on the slab, I should have traversed about 15 feet left and then gone up.
  I lose an hour traversing left to a dubious bridge, from which I leap onto the face, metal-clawed hands and feet stabbing into the snow.
  A continuation of the river may be found at the bottom of the mud slope, but the way on is to traverse round to the right.
  About fifteen feet up the heap is a crawl-through, which leads to more traversing in a fissure passage, and a straddle down a short chimney onto blocks.
  We roped up at the base, did our cross-check, then climbed up a short wall and across easy slopes, traversing upward and left until we reached an obvious belay.
  Pass your right foot in front of your left (or perhaps, in extreme circumstances, behind); this is a ‘step-through’, used a lot in traversing.
  He then continued along the wall ahead, and after about 50 m or so began traversing around an overhang.
  The same point can reached from below the short wall at the top of Jeune Ecole by traversing rightwards 10m.
  From here on out it's pretty much easy stuff, so just get up however you feel like it by traversing to the right.
  Yet more traversing on easy ledges above the stream channel enables one to gain the top of ‘Lake Pot’, which lands, funnily enough, in a lake!
  The time-pressed can try bouldering, which entails traversing and short ascents that can be completed sans rope.
  This looks quite frightening from the top, but it is easily descended by traversing to the far side of the hole.
  So when you arrive at the gym, take about 5 minutes to traverse at the base of the wall.
  Surveying as we went we soon reached the pool and had no problem traversing around.
  By traversing over the pitch a dry crawl is reached, containing a few formations, which shortly divides at a T-junction.
  As the gully became wider on the descent, we were forced to traverse ever farther left, on tiny broken ledges, eventually reaching the top of the wall.
  From there, we traversed across ledges and slabs toward the next belay.
  Point Release avalanches are not very dangerous, but can knock you over, so watch out for them if you are traversing along a cliff side!
3. 1.3 Ski diagonally across (a slope), losing only a little height.
  ski patrol workers traverse the slope
  Example sentencesExamples
  Witnesses saw an avalanche start as a skier left the pistes and traversed the slope.
  Speaking of which, even with the late arrival of winter, Pamporovo was definitely fit for skiing last weekend with tons of snow and every ski run ready to be traversed.
  When the time came to retrieve the plates, we had to traverse slopes that had more than a meter of new snow.
  Although most skiers traverse the Inside Road from north to south, both directions demand stamina with substantial elevation gains and losses.
  They were traversing Windy Ridge in Uintah back country known for heavy avalanche activity, he said.
  Four of the group had already traversed the slope on skis; the fifth was on crampons when a small snow slab of some 30 cm depth took him and another trainee over cliffs.
4. 1.4 Consider the whole extent of (a subject)
  he would traverse a number of subjects and disciplines
  Example sentencesExamples
  Debates about international justice typically range over the well-traversed terrain of distribution and redistribution.
  The committee was also privy to Cabinet papers that had traversed the issue with a lot of scrutiny.
  Although, understandably, the discussions traverse a wide area of opinion there seem to be four main conclusions that are put forward as the cause of the crisis.
  I do not intend to traverse the issues already covered by Dr Wayne Mapp.
  The thematic landscape traversed by scholars of cultural globalization is vast and the questions they raise are too numerous to be fleshed out in this short introduction.
  In the final session, students debated the merits of acknowledging taha Maori in their practice, traversing issues raised by Johnstone and Read.
  Your Honour, there will be a need to traverse those issues in argument.
  Your Honour, I do not anticipate a dispute about the facts traversed by Mr Moore.
  It was a matter traversed in the affidavit material.
  In any event, what can be said is that it did not play a role in the findings of fact about causal connections which had been much traversed in two trials and two appeals and are no longer contested.
  Connell and Gibson deeply enrich our ability to traverse this seemingly infinite scholarly terrain.
  Your Honour, the objection is that that is an assertion concerning factual matters which are traversed in judgments of the Full Court and the decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
2 Move back and forth or sideways.
a probe is traversed along the tunnel
Example sentencesExamples
- Probes were constructed, thankfully unmanned, that could traverse space for long enough to touch down on the face of a planet and act as a beacon, or as a receiving antenna for the light matter.
- Oxygen is passed down the tube, which is rotated while an oxy-hydrogen flame is slowly traversed down its length.
- As the plane came within range, the searchlight traversed its flight path only to hit a cloud.
- The reader traverses the beam in the opposite direction to that of the object under test to reduce image blur.
- Setting the time delay between the pump and the probe was achieved by varying the distance traversed by the probe beam with a motorized mechanical stage.
- The machine also automates the process of traversing a focused and uniform hot-air stream along the length of the tubing to be laminated.
- Each node would carry only one pointer field to traverse the list back and forth.
1. 2.1 Turn (a large gun or other device on a pivot) to face a different direction.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The close proximity of light poles, vending stands and buildings severely limited our ability to traverse the turret.
  While patrolling narrow streets, it is nearly impossible to safely traverse the entire turret to engage enemy forces.
  The casemate mounted a gun on a pivot which could be traversed to fire through an embrasure.
  When we did traverse the aircraft, it took a thorough brief and exact timing of the pitch and roll of the ship.
  Vehicles would move to ‘points of domination’ (the intersections) to maximize the ability to traverse the turret and use the CITV.
  I fought open hatch the whole way and ordered Red 1 to do the same, as we were very vulnerable from the flanks as we approached the market and could not traverse our turrets well there.
3Law
Deny (an allegation) in pleading.
the plaintiff must assert certain facts which, if traversed, he would be put to prove
Example sentencesExamples
- I there said that it is ‘every fact which it would be necessary for the plaintiff to prove, if traversed, in order to support his right to the judgment of the Court.’
- The defendants traversed the allegation "that the ship was broken, damaged, and destroyed, and rendered incapable of pursuing the voyage, by any perils which the said assurers by the said policy did take upon themselves."
- Each and every allegation herein contained is denied as if specifically traversed and the Claimant is put to the proof thereof.
- Cause of action has been held from the earliest time to mean every fact which is material to be proved to entitle the plaintiff to succeed - every fact which the defendant would have to traverse.
- He said it was relevant that neither the Government nor the Bangalore Development Authority had specifically traversed the allegation of discrimination.
- The first issue is that he was obviously in a great tactical difficulty - he would have been traversing his own case if he was going to suggest that something less than the commercial quantity could have been manufactured.
1. 3.1archaic Oppose or thwart (a plan).
  Example sentencesExamples
  When he discovered that the revolutions in Central Italy traversed his plan, he should have warned Victor Emanuel and Cavour that this new condition would warrant him in breaking his compact.
  But his plans were traversed again and again by unforeseen complications, the failure of the most promising presumptions, and the perpetual shifting of apparently stable alliances.
  Unfortunately his plans were traversed by the Pope.
  Synonyms
  foil, frustrate, baulk, stand in the way of, forestall

noun trəˈvəːsˈtravəstrəˈvərs

1An act of traversing something.
high-level walks in the Dolomites often involve steep, exposed climbs, traverses, and descents
Example sentencesExamples
- Mr Tate, an experienced walker, has completed the same traverse undertaken by Mr Johnson.
- It was a traverse through a world of humility, patience and submission - a long and tedious journey to be undertaken with faith, conviction and cheerfulness.
- The traverse of the ridge should be within the capabilities of any reasonably fit walker.
- They'll find out soon enough, and the traverses across the featureless, flat topography of Meridiani Planum is going to make for ‘smooth sailing’ for the rover.
- As well as his Taranaki successes Ian completed a grand traverse of Mount Cook: from The Hermitage to the mountain and back again in 28 hours, a climb that usually takes three days.
- As any seasoned Gotham pavement pounder will tell you, the traverse from, say, the Harlem River to the South Ferry Terminal is no easy stroll.
- From Osmaston's guide, it appeared that no one had made a complete traverse of the Stanley Plateau.
- And indeed, our short traverse to my home was not without incident.
- The explorers would undertake long traverses, thoroughly studying and recording the characteristics of the region around their landing site.
- After a long traverse the path turns right and enters a stand of conifers.
- The high traverse of the undulating, narrow ridge led to the final difficulties of the day.
- This spot, perhaps more than any other, has witnessed the traverse of the world's great armies on campaigns of conquest to and from South and Central Asia.
- Right now, they will design the rover's traverses based on visual data from the images and will give her specific commands and directions.
- On day seven the hiking group is met by a re-supply group at Bannerman's Pass and among those in the revictualling group is Ida de Villiers, who had buddied with Jenny on two previous traverses.
- But he didn't answer, simply stumbled into the middle of the road, disrupting the monotonous traverse of the sedans and hatchbacks and wagons.
Synonyms
traversal, traverse, passage, voyage, journey
1. 1.1 A rock face where traversing is necessary.
  a narrow traverse made lethal by snow and ice
  Example sentencesExamples
  The final section of the traverse was a bit of a challenge: delicate, balancey moves with next to nothing for hands or feet.
  I duly followed, passing a man trying to negotiate the slabby traverse.
  Long, scary traverses and razor sharp rock require the confidence and the security of half ropes.
  This was handy, but also meant that the heavy bag of rope I had lugged in, getting constantly trapped in the narrow rift below the traverses, was all for nothing - oh well!
  We made good time to the Skeleton Domes area and squeezed up into the Rat Race to reach a series of traverses and climbs that came close to exceeding my confidence factor.
  A traverse then leads to a ledge from which a short narrow descent may be rigged to the streamway below.
  It was his second time on the traverse and his return this summer was in preparation for a winter assault negotiating the eleven peaks.
  Alan climbed up to a high traverse to see if they could be bypassed but there was no easy way on.
  We made the traverse out and were at the last climb for the easy path leading back to homebase.
  This is best learned on an overhanging traverse, or at least, that's how I learned it.
  The way on is a traverse round a mud bank to the left, which climbs into a passage above the calcite floor.
  The way back follows a less popular route, via a rocky cleft above the lower lake, which begins with a traverse on which, I must confess, I tried to avoid looking down.
  Finally, I rounded the giant granite corner of the traverse, relieved to find Ben in sight again.
  An unprotectable traverse back across the route goes on for about 10m.
  Underground I was rather nervous at first but that soon disappeared except for a few places such as the first set of traverses, which for a normal fit person would be fine.
  A short traverse led to the foot of the cornice and I managed to ease my way across to it, virtually hanging from my ice axe.
  When they reached the steep traverse off the ridge that had been their only difficulty on the way up, Douglas Hadow again began to have trouble keeping his footing.
  The traverse was fine, it circled the gym - not too hard to stay on but fun enough to stay on all the way around.
2. 1.2 A movement following a diagonal course made by a skier descending a slope.
  I make long gentle traverses down the steepest sections
  Example sentencesExamples
  We drop through Navajo Basin to about 12,300 feet at the base of the face, making a few turns and traverses on crusty snow.
  During his days at Camp Hale, Winter participated in the legendary ski traverse made by 33 soldiers from Hale to Aspen, in 1944.
  He'd make a powerful traverse, knock off a good-sized avalanche, then turn around and make a few turns where the slide had scoured.
  Also, skiers doing long traverses with little emphasis on making turns found the lightweight edged Nordic skis to be a good tool.
  For our backpacking trips and multi-day ski traverses we like the Nimbus Ozone.
  I have second thoughts as I begin to cut a traverse up and across a powdery leeward slope.
  Everybody, even our best skiers, cautiously sidestepped down the first narrow pitch, then made cautious traverses and kick turns.
3. 1.3 A zigzag course taken by a ship because winds or currents prevent it from sailing directly towards its destination.
2A part of a structure that extends or is fixed across something.
there were three jewels in the traverse of the cross and four in the body
Example sentencesExamples
- The access to the feed was adapted to the size of animals with a traverse allowing only one animal to enter.
- These were of brick, built on the surface but surrounded with a traverse and topped with a six foot thick shingle filled concrete sandwich roof.
1. 2.1 A gallery extending from side to side of a church or other building.
3A mechanism enabling a large gun to be turned to face a different direction.
they had been practising firing at multiple targets, using the power traverse
Example sentencesExamples
- The gun's traverse was steam-operated and took 3 hours to build up enough steam pressure to function.
- The program will also include a laser ignition system, electric drives for the howitzer's traverse and elevation and a powered projectile rammer.
- Each time the gun is fired, the tube must go into detente for cartridge ejection, and the power traverse of the turret is inoperable during ejection and reloading operations.
- The elevation and traverse are powered hydraulically.
1. 3.1mass noun The sideways movement of a part in a machine.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The 14 mm gun has a full 360° traverse with an elevation of 60° for improved effectiveness in air defence.
  The gun's traverse was limited to a mere five degrees either side of zero.
  The turret machine gun can also be operated from under armor by being mounted on a circular revolving ring for automatic traverse.
  The AFCS displays the target information, selects the gun traverse and elevation and lays the weapon on the target.
  During this climb, the traverse of the turret knocked Treacy off.
  The turret has a 360 degree traverse and an elevation of - 15 to + 60 degrees.
4A single line of survey, usually plotted from compass bearings and measured distances between successive points.
Example sentencesExamples
- There are several ways to obtain the starting data, and surveyors should make an effort to use the best data available to begin a traverse.
1. 4.1 An area of land surveyed with a traverse.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Whilst surveying a traverse, the horizontal angle at station B, between two adjacent stations A and C, was measured as having a value of 153o 44' 50".
  In surveying a traverse, a series of measured short lines may be projected onto a single long line, connecting two main survey stations, and the long line is then treated as a measured line of the traverse.
5Military
A pair of right-angled bends incorporated in a trench to avoid enfilading fire.
he crept up and threw a grenade over the traverse
Example sentencesExamples
- "Sir," announced an orderly, poking his head around a traverse in the trench, "dinner is served."
- This ship is full of officers and men who are quite likely to be utterly ignorant of what was going on round the next traverse in the trench which they had occupied.
6
variant spelling of travers

Derivatives

traversable

adjective trəˈvəːsəb(ə)ltrəˈvərsəb(ə)l

You can't leave the track just anywhere, no matter how traversable the road shoulder may appear.
Example sentencesExamples
- The researchers found that the flies first visually measure the gap width and then only cross the gap if it is a traversable width.
- It, too, was separated from the rest of the land, but only by easily traversable grasslands and hills.
- Hence we may assume local woods had the normal mix of mature and younger trees and were quite traversable.
- The only flat, traversable region of the Isthmus is on the Pacific side - where the coastal Zapotecs live.

traversal

noun trəˈvəːsəltrəˈvərs(ə)l

His account of the traversal of the wilderness and the creation of a politics of the frontier surrounding Bingham's practice is rich and varied.
Example sentencesExamples
- The novel as a whole deals with the central character's traversal of a variety of psycho-geographic locations, as identified by Simon Gikandi.
- Transportation, as traversal, is the crossing, which is movement as such.
- The desert can be quite cold during the winter months; the train left well before sunrise, so we witnessed that during our traversal of the desert.
- Perhaps the most uncanny portion of The Lord of the Rings, without terrible horror, but with an air of hopeless regret, is the traversal of the bog created by the battle which ended the previous age centuries before.

Origin

Middle English (in sense 3 of the verb): from Old French traverser, from late Latin traversare; the noun is from Old French travers (masculine), traverse (feminine), partly based on traverser.

Definition of traverse in US English:

traverse

verbtrəˈvərstrəˈvərs

[with object]

1Travel across or through.
he traversed the forest
Example sentencesExamples
- Before I knew it, we had traversed Yellowhead Pass, one of the lowest in the Continental Divide, yet, at 3,718 feet, the highest point the train crosses.
- Deserts were crossed, mountains were scaled, forests were traversed, icebergs were negotiated.
- Wild animals and birds traversing contiguous forest stretches have no clue that there might be restrictions.
- From Trowunna I head north, leaving behind the forested hills of the interior to traverse an expanse of rolling countryside strikingly reminiscent of England.
- In traversing the country, you can expect to pass through San Jose a few times, so enjoy yourself.
- In 1991, he traversed the State, covering 2,850 km on a bicycle.
- It has been a long road to freedom, traversing the difficult terrain of learning to live with each other, learning to accept each other.
- The total area traversed by participants covers thousands of square miles.
- Before the advent of roads or railways, the sheer difficulty in traversing Peru's geography was one of the greatest obstacles to solidifying a national identity.
- By the time we had traversed the thickly forested coastal plain it was dark, and nothing could be seen through the windows except the black night.
- I watched the man with furtive caution as we traversed the forest, for I didn't trust him, even if he did not seem villainous.
- Starting from Taiwan, he traversed the Indian Ocean after passing through the Strait of Malacca.
- In total they covered 67.5 miles, traversing the loch three times, in water that was only a shivering 11 degrees centigrade.
- Both traversed the forest swiftly and easily, scurrying over rocks and against foliage with utmost grace.
- ‘Joseph,’ Conall spoke up, as they reached the edge of the forest, having traversed the distance in silence.
- It is possible to traverse the entire range by walking the two-thousand-mile Appalachian Trail.
- After three days in the forest, they had spent another four traversing the extensive foothills before reaching the Mountains.
- That will see him traversing the Americas, covering the 25,000 kilometres from Ushuia, the world's most southern city, up to the icy wastes of Alaska.
- He would repeatedly cheer us up by assuring us that our team was the first to uninterruptedly traverse this difficult, and unique, coast-to-coast route.
- He spends his summers traversing the Midwest in his studio Winnebago, painting lush forest scenes resplendent with deer, lakes, and waterfalls on things like garage doors.
Synonyms
travel across, travel over, cross, journey across, journey over, make one's way across, pass over, go across, negotiate
1. 1.1 Extend across or through.
  a moving catwalk that traversed a vast cavernous space
  Example sentencesExamples
  People from elsewhere may be surprised at how good skiing is on the edge of the prairie in northwestern Minnesota, on trails that traverse rolling glacial moraines near Maplelag.
  The show presents its monumental architecture, its military might, the way it controlled and administered its dominions through provincial satrapies and the network of roads that traversed its vast distances.
  One current regime traversing the globe and in particular, the United States, is the Federal Communications Commission.
  Precontact culture was heavily influenced by the natural terrain as the Ojibwa adapted their lifestyle to survive in a heavily forested land traversed by a network of lakes and rivers.
  The total Solar eclipse falls on November 23rd and will be visible from within a narrow corridor which traverses the far Southern Hemisphere.
  Empathy with the landscape is expressed not only through the extended architectural promenade that traverses the contours of the site, but also through the material character of the Natatorium.
  Numerous active and historic gas and oil utility corridors traverse forests of the region.
  Long, gently inclined staircases traverse the interior space, affording glimpses through slits in the gallery ceilings that act as peepholes to events above or below.
  In small towns, concrete buildings are strung along the few roads that traverse the islands.
  The country has a rugged topography, with three Andean mountain ranges traversing the western half, although the country's highest peaks are located off the Caribbean coast in the Sierra Nevada.
  In Celebration, a narrow band of hot pink, blue and white, trimmed in red, diagonally traverses the glowing disk.
  She stood in the middle of the path that traversed the park, covering her face with her hands.
  Highway 50 traverses a dozen of these valleys and passes; driven in a day they succeed one another like musical variations, with their subtle differences of colour and form.
  This area, the more southerly of the two, is on a steep slope and traversed by a narrow street.
  I choose instead a flat six-mile track traversing Licuala State Forest Park, where the giant fan palms and prehistoric cycad trees start a few feet from the parking lot.
  In order to take advantage of the more moderate terrain and the available real estate, many of the McCoy Park trails traverse the ridge top and lower meadow several times.
  Synonyms
  extend across, lie across, stretch across, go across, cross, cut across
2. 1.2no object, with adverbial of direction Cross a hill or mountain by means of a series of sideways movements from one practicable line of ascent or descent to another.
  I often use this route, eventually traversing around the cliff
  Example sentencesExamples
  Yet more traversing on easy ledges above the stream channel enables one to gain the top of ‘Lake Pot’, which lands, funnily enough, in a lake!
  By traversing over the pitch a dry crawl is reached, containing a few formations, which shortly divides at a T-junction.
  From here on out it's pretty much easy stuff, so just get up however you feel like it by traversing to the right.
  He then continued along the wall ahead, and after about 50 m or so began traversing around an overhang.
  Surveying as we went we soon reached the pool and had no problem traversing around.
  Point Release avalanches are not very dangerous, but can knock you over, so watch out for them if you are traversing along a cliff side!
  The same point can reached from below the short wall at the top of Jeune Ecole by traversing rightwards 10m.
  About fifteen feet up the heap is a crawl-through, which leads to more traversing in a fissure passage, and a straddle down a short chimney onto blocks.
  As the gully became wider on the descent, we were forced to traverse ever farther left, on tiny broken ledges, eventually reaching the top of the wall.
  A continuation of the river may be found at the bottom of the mud slope, but the way on is to traverse round to the right.
  Once on the slab, I should have traversed about 15 feet left and then gone up.
  So when you arrive at the gym, take about 5 minutes to traverse at the base of the wall.
  This looks quite frightening from the top, but it is easily descended by traversing to the far side of the hole.
  Right before the steepest section, we were able to traverse onto a rock ledge and have lunch.
  I lose an hour traversing left to a dubious bridge, from which I leap onto the face, metal-clawed hands and feet stabbing into the snow.
  We roped up at the base, did our cross-check, then climbed up a short wall and across easy slopes, traversing upward and left until we reached an obvious belay.
  From there, we traversed across ledges and slabs toward the next belay.
  Pass your right foot in front of your left (or perhaps, in extreme circumstances, behind); this is a ‘step-through’, used a lot in traversing.
  The time-pressed can try bouldering, which entails traversing and short ascents that can be completed sans rope.
3. 1.3 Ski diagonally across (a slope), with only a slight descent.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Speaking of which, even with the late arrival of winter, Pamporovo was definitely fit for skiing last weekend with tons of snow and every ski run ready to be traversed.
  They were traversing Windy Ridge in Uintah back country known for heavy avalanche activity, he said.
  When the time came to retrieve the plates, we had to traverse slopes that had more than a meter of new snow.
  Four of the group had already traversed the slope on skis; the fifth was on crampons when a small snow slab of some 30 cm depth took him and another trainee over cliffs.
  Although most skiers traverse the Inside Road from north to south, both directions demand stamina with substantial elevation gains and losses.
  Witnesses saw an avalanche start as a skier left the pistes and traversed the slope.
4. 1.4 Consider or discuss the whole extent of (a subject)
  he would traverse a number of subjects and disciplines
  Example sentencesExamples
  Debates about international justice typically range over the well-traversed terrain of distribution and redistribution.
  I do not intend to traverse the issues already covered by Dr Wayne Mapp.
  The committee was also privy to Cabinet papers that had traversed the issue with a lot of scrutiny.
  Your Honour, the objection is that that is an assertion concerning factual matters which are traversed in judgments of the Full Court and the decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
  It was a matter traversed in the affidavit material.
  Connell and Gibson deeply enrich our ability to traverse this seemingly infinite scholarly terrain.
  Although, understandably, the discussions traverse a wide area of opinion there seem to be four main conclusions that are put forward as the cause of the crisis.
  In any event, what can be said is that it did not play a role in the findings of fact about causal connections which had been much traversed in two trials and two appeals and are no longer contested.
  Your Honour, there will be a need to traverse those issues in argument.
  In the final session, students debated the merits of acknowledging taha Maori in their practice, traversing issues raised by Johnstone and Read.
  Your Honour, I do not anticipate a dispute about the facts traversed by Mr Moore.
  The thematic landscape traversed by scholars of cultural globalization is vast and the questions they raise are too numerous to be fleshed out in this short introduction.
2Move (something) back and forth or sideways.
a probe is traversed along the tunnel
Example sentencesExamples
- Probes were constructed, thankfully unmanned, that could traverse space for long enough to touch down on the face of a planet and act as a beacon, or as a receiving antenna for the light matter.
- Oxygen is passed down the tube, which is rotated while an oxy-hydrogen flame is slowly traversed down its length.
- Setting the time delay between the pump and the probe was achieved by varying the distance traversed by the probe beam with a motorized mechanical stage.
- The machine also automates the process of traversing a focused and uniform hot-air stream along the length of the tubing to be laminated.
- As the plane came within range, the searchlight traversed its flight path only to hit a cloud.
- Each node would carry only one pointer field to traverse the list back and forth.
- The reader traverses the beam in the opposite direction to that of the object under test to reduce image blur.
1. 2.1 Turn (a large gun or other device on a pivot) to face a different direction.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The close proximity of light poles, vending stands and buildings severely limited our ability to traverse the turret.
  The casemate mounted a gun on a pivot which could be traversed to fire through an embrasure.
  Vehicles would move to ‘points of domination’ (the intersections) to maximize the ability to traverse the turret and use the CITV.
  When we did traverse the aircraft, it took a thorough brief and exact timing of the pitch and roll of the ship.
  While patrolling narrow streets, it is nearly impossible to safely traverse the entire turret to engage enemy forces.
  I fought open hatch the whole way and ordered Red 1 to do the same, as we were very vulnerable from the flanks as we approached the market and could not traverse our turrets well there.
3Law
Deny (an allegation) in pleading.
Example sentencesExamples
- I there said that it is ‘every fact which it would be necessary for the plaintiff to prove, if traversed, in order to support his right to the judgment of the Court.’
- Cause of action has been held from the earliest time to mean every fact which is material to be proved to entitle the plaintiff to succeed - every fact which the defendant would have to traverse.
- The defendants traversed the allegation "that the ship was broken, damaged, and destroyed, and rendered incapable of pursuing the voyage, by any perils which the said assurers by the said policy did take upon themselves."
- He said it was relevant that neither the Government nor the Bangalore Development Authority had specifically traversed the allegation of discrimination.
- The first issue is that he was obviously in a great tactical difficulty - he would have been traversing his own case if he was going to suggest that something less than the commercial quantity could have been manufactured.
- Each and every allegation herein contained is denied as if specifically traversed and the Claimant is put to the proof thereof.
1. 3.1archaic Oppose or thwart (a plan).
  Example sentencesExamples
  Unfortunately his plans were traversed by the Pope.
  When he discovered that the revolutions in Central Italy traversed his plan, he should have warned Victor Emanuel and Cavour that this new condition would warrant him in breaking his compact.
  But his plans were traversed again and again by unforeseen complications, the failure of the most promising presumptions, and the perpetual shifting of apparently stable alliances.
  Synonyms
  foil, frustrate, baulk, stand in the way of, forestall

nountrəˈvərstrəˈvərs

1An act of traversing something.
Example sentencesExamples
- It was a traverse through a world of humility, patience and submission - a long and tedious journey to be undertaken with faith, conviction and cheerfulness.
- As well as his Taranaki successes Ian completed a grand traverse of Mount Cook: from The Hermitage to the mountain and back again in 28 hours, a climb that usually takes three days.
- But he didn't answer, simply stumbled into the middle of the road, disrupting the monotonous traverse of the sedans and hatchbacks and wagons.
- Mr Tate, an experienced walker, has completed the same traverse undertaken by Mr Johnson.
- From Osmaston's guide, it appeared that no one had made a complete traverse of the Stanley Plateau.
- The high traverse of the undulating, narrow ridge led to the final difficulties of the day.
- And indeed, our short traverse to my home was not without incident.
- The traverse of the ridge should be within the capabilities of any reasonably fit walker.
- This spot, perhaps more than any other, has witnessed the traverse of the world's great armies on campaigns of conquest to and from South and Central Asia.
- Right now, they will design the rover's traverses based on visual data from the images and will give her specific commands and directions.
- They'll find out soon enough, and the traverses across the featureless, flat topography of Meridiani Planum is going to make for ‘smooth sailing’ for the rover.
- On day seven the hiking group is met by a re-supply group at Bannerman's Pass and among those in the revictualling group is Ida de Villiers, who had buddied with Jenny on two previous traverses.
- After a long traverse the path turns right and enters a stand of conifers.
- As any seasoned Gotham pavement pounder will tell you, the traverse from, say, the Harlem River to the South Ferry Terminal is no easy stroll.
- The explorers would undertake long traverses, thoroughly studying and recording the characteristics of the region around their landing site.
Synonyms
traversal, traverse, passage, voyage, journey
1. 1.1 A hill or mountain where traversing is necessary.
  a narrow traverse made lethal by snow and ice
  Example sentencesExamples
  The final section of the traverse was a bit of a challenge: delicate, balancey moves with next to nothing for hands or feet.
  Finally, I rounded the giant granite corner of the traverse, relieved to find Ben in sight again.
  We made the traverse out and were at the last climb for the easy path leading back to homebase.
  An unprotectable traverse back across the route goes on for about 10m.
  A short traverse led to the foot of the cornice and I managed to ease my way across to it, virtually hanging from my ice axe.
  This was handy, but also meant that the heavy bag of rope I had lugged in, getting constantly trapped in the narrow rift below the traverses, was all for nothing - oh well!
  Long, scary traverses and razor sharp rock require the confidence and the security of half ropes.
  The way back follows a less popular route, via a rocky cleft above the lower lake, which begins with a traverse on which, I must confess, I tried to avoid looking down.
  Underground I was rather nervous at first but that soon disappeared except for a few places such as the first set of traverses, which for a normal fit person would be fine.
  The traverse was fine, it circled the gym - not too hard to stay on but fun enough to stay on all the way around.
  I duly followed, passing a man trying to negotiate the slabby traverse.
  This is best learned on an overhanging traverse, or at least, that's how I learned it.
  The way on is a traverse round a mud bank to the left, which climbs into a passage above the calcite floor.
  Alan climbed up to a high traverse to see if they could be bypassed but there was no easy way on.
  A traverse then leads to a ledge from which a short narrow descent may be rigged to the streamway below.
  When they reached the steep traverse off the ridge that had been their only difficulty on the way up, Douglas Hadow again began to have trouble keeping his footing.
  We made good time to the Skeleton Domes area and squeezed up into the Rat Race to reach a series of traverses and climbs that came close to exceeding my confidence factor.
  It was his second time on the traverse and his return this summer was in preparation for a winter assault negotiating the eleven peaks.
2. 1.2 A movement following a diagonal course made by a skier descending a slope.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Also, skiers doing long traverses with little emphasis on making turns found the lightweight edged Nordic skis to be a good tool.
  We drop through Navajo Basin to about 12,300 feet at the base of the face, making a few turns and traverses on crusty snow.
  Everybody, even our best skiers, cautiously sidestepped down the first narrow pitch, then made cautious traverses and kick turns.
  For our backpacking trips and multi-day ski traverses we like the Nimbus Ozone.
  I have second thoughts as I begin to cut a traverse up and across a powdery leeward slope.
  During his days at Camp Hale, Winter participated in the legendary ski traverse made by 33 soldiers from Hale to Aspen, in 1944.
  He'd make a powerful traverse, knock off a good-sized avalanche, then turn around and make a few turns where the slide had scoured.
3. 1.3 A zigzag course followed by a ship because winds or currents prevent it from sailing directly toward its destination.
2A part of a structure that extends or is fixed across something.
Example sentencesExamples
- The access to the feed was adapted to the size of animals with a traverse allowing only one animal to enter.
- These were of brick, built on the surface but surrounded with a traverse and topped with a six foot thick shingle filled concrete sandwich roof.
1. 2.1 A gallery extending from side to side of a church or other building.
3A mechanism enabling a large gun to be turned to face a different direction.
Example sentencesExamples
- The program will also include a laser ignition system, electric drives for the howitzer's traverse and elevation and a powered projectile rammer.
- The elevation and traverse are powered hydraulically.
- Each time the gun is fired, the tube must go into detente for cartridge ejection, and the power traverse of the turret is inoperable during ejection and reloading operations.
- The gun's traverse was steam-operated and took 3 hours to build up enough steam pressure to function.
1. 3.1 The sideways movement of a part in a machine.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The turret has a 360 degree traverse and an elevation of - 15 to + 60 degrees.
  The 14 mm gun has a full 360° traverse with an elevation of 60° for improved effectiveness in air defence.
  The gun's traverse was limited to a mere five degrees either side of zero.
  The AFCS displays the target information, selects the gun traverse and elevation and lays the weapon on the target.
  The turret machine gun can also be operated from under armor by being mounted on a circular revolving ring for automatic traverse.
  During this climb, the traverse of the turret knocked Treacy off.
4A single line of survey, usually plotted from compass bearings and chained or paced distances between angular points.
Example sentencesExamples
- There are several ways to obtain the starting data, and surveyors should make an effort to use the best data available to begin a traverse.
1. 4.1 A tract surveyed by traversing.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In surveying a traverse, a series of measured short lines may be projected onto a single long line, connecting two main survey stations, and the long line is then treated as a measured line of the traverse.
  Whilst surveying a traverse, the horizontal angle at station B, between two adjacent stations A and C, was measured as having a value of 153o 44' 50".
5Military
A pair of right-angled bends incorporated in a trench to avoid enfilading fire.
Example sentencesExamples
- "Sir," announced an orderly, poking his head around a traverse in the trench, "dinner is served."
- This ship is full of officers and men who are quite likely to be utterly ignorant of what was going on round the next traverse in the trench which they had occupied.
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variant spelling of travers

adjectivetrəˈvərstrəˈvərs

(of a curtain rod) allowing the curtain to be opened and closed by sliding it along the rod.
Example sentencesExamples
- If the draperies will hang from a conventional traverse rod, determine the finished length by measuring from the top of the rod to where you want the lower edge of the draperies.
- There is so much on the market today - decorative traverse rods, pole sets, metal or wood rods.
- Drapery panels are traditionally floor-length, lined and pinch-pleated, attached by hook to a traverse rod, with a pull cord.

Origin

Middle English (in traverse (sense 3 of the verb)): from Old French traverser, from late Latin traversare; the noun is from Old French travers (masculine), traverse (feminine), partly based on traverser.

单词	traverse
释义	Definition of traverse in English: traverse verb trəˈvəːsˈtravəstrəˈvərs [with object] 1Travel across or through. he traversed the forest Example sentencesExamples He would repeatedly cheer us up by assuring us that our team was the first to uninterruptedly traverse this difficult, and unique, coast-to-coast route. Before I knew it, we had traversed Yellowhead Pass, one of the lowest in the Continental Divide, yet, at 3,718 feet, the highest point the train crosses. I watched the man with furtive caution as we traversed the forest, for I didn't trust him, even if he did not seem villainous. Wild animals and birds traversing contiguous forest stretches have no clue that there might be restrictions. In total they covered 67.5 miles, traversing the loch three times, in water that was only a shivering 11 degrees centigrade. After three days in the forest, they had spent another four traversing the extensive foothills before reaching the Mountains. He spends his summers traversing the Midwest in his studio Winnebago, painting lush forest scenes resplendent with deer, lakes, and waterfalls on things like garage doors. ‘Joseph,’ Conall spoke up, as they reached the edge of the forest, having traversed the distance in silence. Starting from Taiwan, he traversed the Indian Ocean after passing through the Strait of Malacca. From Trowunna I head north, leaving behind the forested hills of the interior to traverse an expanse of rolling countryside strikingly reminiscent of England. Deserts were crossed, mountains were scaled, forests were traversed, icebergs were negotiated. By the time we had traversed the thickly forested coastal plain it was dark, and nothing could be seen through the windows except the black night. The total area traversed by participants covers thousands of square miles. Before the advent of roads or railways, the sheer difficulty in traversing Peru's geography was one of the greatest obstacles to solidifying a national identity. It has been a long road to freedom, traversing the difficult terrain of learning to live with each other, learning to accept each other. That will see him traversing the Americas, covering the 25,000 kilometres from Ushuia, the world's most southern city, up to the icy wastes of Alaska. Both traversed the forest swiftly and easily, scurrying over rocks and against foliage with utmost grace. It is possible to traverse the entire range by walking the two-thousand-mile Appalachian Trail. In traversing the country, you can expect to pass through San Jose a few times, so enjoy yourself. In 1991, he traversed the State, covering 2,850 km on a bicycle. Synonyms travel over/across, cross, journey over/across, make one's way across, pass over, go across, negotiate cover ply wander, roam, range 1.1 Extend across or through. a moving catwalk that traversed a vast cavernous space Example sentencesExamples Highway 50 traverses a dozen of these valleys and passes; driven in a day they succeed one another like musical variations, with their subtle differences of colour and form. The country has a rugged topography, with three Andean mountain ranges traversing the western half, although the country's highest peaks are located off the Caribbean coast in the Sierra Nevada. The show presents its monumental architecture, its military might, the way it controlled and administered its dominions through provincial satrapies and the network of roads that traversed its vast distances. She stood in the middle of the path that traversed the park, covering her face with her hands. In small towns, concrete buildings are strung along the few roads that traverse the islands. One current regime traversing the globe and in particular, the United States, is the Federal Communications Commission. Empathy with the landscape is expressed not only through the extended architectural promenade that traverses the contours of the site, but also through the material character of the Natatorium. Long, gently inclined staircases traverse the interior space, affording glimpses through slits in the gallery ceilings that act as peepholes to events above or below. People from elsewhere may be surprised at how good skiing is on the edge of the prairie in northwestern Minnesota, on trails that traverse rolling glacial moraines near Maplelag. I choose instead a flat six-mile track traversing Licuala State Forest Park, where the giant fan palms and prehistoric cycad trees start a few feet from the parking lot. In Celebration, a narrow band of hot pink, blue and white, trimmed in red, diagonally traverses the glowing disk. In order to take advantage of the more moderate terrain and the available real estate, many of the McCoy Park trails traverse the ridge top and lower meadow several times. Precontact culture was heavily influenced by the natural terrain as the Ojibwa adapted their lifestyle to survive in a heavily forested land traversed by a network of lakes and rivers. This area, the more southerly of the two, is on a steep slope and traversed by a narrow street. Numerous active and historic gas and oil utility corridors traverse forests of the region. The total Solar eclipse falls on November 23rd and will be visible from within a narrow corridor which traverses the far Southern Hemisphere. Synonyms extend across, lie across, stretch across, go across, cross, cut across bridge, span 1.2no object, with adverbial of direction Cross a rock face by means of a series of sideways movements from one practicable line of ascent or descent to another. I often use this route, eventually traversing around the headwall Example sentencesExamples Right before the steepest section, we were able to traverse onto a rock ledge and have lunch. Once on the slab, I should have traversed about 15 feet left and then gone up. I lose an hour traversing left to a dubious bridge, from which I leap onto the face, metal-clawed hands and feet stabbing into the snow. A continuation of the river may be found at the bottom of the mud slope, but the way on is to traverse round to the right. About fifteen feet up the heap is a crawl-through, which leads to more traversing in a fissure passage, and a straddle down a short chimney onto blocks. We roped up at the base, did our cross-check, then climbed up a short wall and across easy slopes, traversing upward and left until we reached an obvious belay. Pass your right foot in front of your left (or perhaps, in extreme circumstances, behind); this is a ‘step-through’, used a lot in traversing. He then continued along the wall ahead, and after about 50 m or so began traversing around an overhang. The same point can reached from below the short wall at the top of Jeune Ecole by traversing rightwards 10m. From here on out it's pretty much easy stuff, so just get up however you feel like it by traversing to the right. Yet more traversing on easy ledges above the stream channel enables one to gain the top of ‘Lake Pot’, which lands, funnily enough, in a lake! The time-pressed can try bouldering, which entails traversing and short ascents that can be completed sans rope. This looks quite frightening from the top, but it is easily descended by traversing to the far side of the hole. So when you arrive at the gym, take about 5 minutes to traverse at the base of the wall. Surveying as we went we soon reached the pool and had no problem traversing around. By traversing over the pitch a dry crawl is reached, containing a few formations, which shortly divides at a T-junction. As the gully became wider on the descent, we were forced to traverse ever farther left, on tiny broken ledges, eventually reaching the top of the wall. From there, we traversed across ledges and slabs toward the next belay. Point Release avalanches are not very dangerous, but can knock you over, so watch out for them if you are traversing along a cliff side! 1.3 Ski diagonally across (a slope), losing only a little height. ski patrol workers traverse the slope Example sentencesExamples Witnesses saw an avalanche start as a skier left the pistes and traversed the slope. Speaking of which, even with the late arrival of winter, Pamporovo was definitely fit for skiing last weekend with tons of snow and every ski run ready to be traversed. When the time came to retrieve the plates, we had to traverse slopes that had more than a meter of new snow. Although most skiers traverse the Inside Road from north to south, both directions demand stamina with substantial elevation gains and losses. They were traversing Windy Ridge in Uintah back country known for heavy avalanche activity, he said. Four of the group had already traversed the slope on skis; the fifth was on crampons when a small snow slab of some 30 cm depth took him and another trainee over cliffs. 1.4 Consider the whole extent of (a subject) he would traverse a number of subjects and disciplines Example sentencesExamples Debates about international justice typically range over the well-traversed terrain of distribution and redistribution. The committee was also privy to Cabinet papers that had traversed the issue with a lot of scrutiny. Although, understandably, the discussions traverse a wide area of opinion there seem to be four main conclusions that are put forward as the cause of the crisis. I do not intend to traverse the issues already covered by Dr Wayne Mapp. The thematic landscape traversed by scholars of cultural globalization is vast and the questions they raise are too numerous to be fleshed out in this short introduction. In the final session, students debated the merits of acknowledging taha Maori in their practice, traversing issues raised by Johnstone and Read. Your Honour, there will be a need to traverse those issues in argument. Your Honour, I do not anticipate a dispute about the facts traversed by Mr Moore. It was a matter traversed in the affidavit material. In any event, what can be said is that it did not play a role in the findings of fact about causal connections which had been much traversed in two trials and two appeals and are no longer contested. Connell and Gibson deeply enrich our ability to traverse this seemingly infinite scholarly terrain. Your Honour, the objection is that that is an assertion concerning factual matters which are traversed in judgments of the Full Court and the decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. 2 Move back and forth or sideways. a probe is traversed along the tunnel Example sentencesExamples Probes were constructed, thankfully unmanned, that could traverse space for long enough to touch down on the face of a planet and act as a beacon, or as a receiving antenna for the light matter. Oxygen is passed down the tube, which is rotated while an oxy-hydrogen flame is slowly traversed down its length. As the plane came within range, the searchlight traversed its flight path only to hit a cloud. The reader traverses the beam in the opposite direction to that of the object under test to reduce image blur. Setting the time delay between the pump and the probe was achieved by varying the distance traversed by the probe beam with a motorized mechanical stage. The machine also automates the process of traversing a focused and uniform hot-air stream along the length of the tubing to be laminated. Each node would carry only one pointer field to traverse the list back and forth. 2.1 Turn (a large gun or other device on a pivot) to face a different direction. Example sentencesExamples The close proximity of light poles, vending stands and buildings severely limited our ability to traverse the turret. While patrolling narrow streets, it is nearly impossible to safely traverse the entire turret to engage enemy forces. The casemate mounted a gun on a pivot which could be traversed to fire through an embrasure. When we did traverse the aircraft, it took a thorough brief and exact timing of the pitch and roll of the ship. Vehicles would move to ‘points of domination’ (the intersections) to maximize the ability to traverse the turret and use the CITV. I fought open hatch the whole way and ordered Red 1 to do the same, as we were very vulnerable from the flanks as we approached the market and could not traverse our turrets well there. 3Law Deny (an allegation) in pleading. the plaintiff must assert certain facts which, if traversed, he would be put to prove Example sentencesExamples I there said that it is ‘every fact which it would be necessary for the plaintiff to prove, if traversed, in order to support his right to the judgment of the Court.’ The defendants traversed the allegation "that the ship was broken, damaged, and destroyed, and rendered incapable of pursuing the voyage, by any perils which the said assurers by the said policy did take upon themselves." Each and every allegation herein contained is denied as if specifically traversed and the Claimant is put to the proof thereof. Cause of action has been held from the earliest time to mean every fact which is material to be proved to entitle the plaintiff to succeed - every fact which the defendant would have to traverse. He said it was relevant that neither the Government nor the Bangalore Development Authority had specifically traversed the allegation of discrimination. The first issue is that he was obviously in a great tactical difficulty - he would have been traversing his own case if he was going to suggest that something less than the commercial quantity could have been manufactured. 3.1archaic Oppose or thwart (a plan). Example sentencesExamples When he discovered that the revolutions in Central Italy traversed his plan, he should have warned Victor Emanuel and Cavour that this new condition would warrant him in breaking his compact. But his plans were traversed again and again by unforeseen complications, the failure of the most promising presumptions, and the perpetual shifting of apparently stable alliances. Unfortunately his plans were traversed by the Pope. Synonyms foil, frustrate, baulk, stand in the way of, forestall noun trəˈvəːsˈtravəstrəˈvərs 1An act of traversing something. high-level walks in the Dolomites often involve steep, exposed climbs, traverses, and descents Example sentencesExamples Mr Tate, an experienced walker, has completed the same traverse undertaken by Mr Johnson. It was a traverse through a world of humility, patience and submission - a long and tedious journey to be undertaken with faith, conviction and cheerfulness. The traverse of the ridge should be within the capabilities of any reasonably fit walker. They'll find out soon enough, and the traverses across the featureless, flat topography of Meridiani Planum is going to make for ‘smooth sailing’ for the rover. As well as his Taranaki successes Ian completed a grand traverse of Mount Cook: from The Hermitage to the mountain and back again in 28 hours, a climb that usually takes three days. As any seasoned Gotham pavement pounder will tell you, the traverse from, say, the Harlem River to the South Ferry Terminal is no easy stroll. From Osmaston's guide, it appeared that no one had made a complete traverse of the Stanley Plateau. And indeed, our short traverse to my home was not without incident. The explorers would undertake long traverses, thoroughly studying and recording the characteristics of the region around their landing site. After a long traverse the path turns right and enters a stand of conifers. The high traverse of the undulating, narrow ridge led to the final difficulties of the day. This spot, perhaps more than any other, has witnessed the traverse of the world's great armies on campaigns of conquest to and from South and Central Asia. Right now, they will design the rover's traverses based on visual data from the images and will give her specific commands and directions. On day seven the hiking group is met by a re-supply group at Bannerman's Pass and among those in the revictualling group is Ida de Villiers, who had buddied with Jenny on two previous traverses. But he didn't answer, simply stumbled into the middle of the road, disrupting the monotonous traverse of the sedans and hatchbacks and wagons. Synonyms traversal, traverse, passage, voyage, journey 1.1 A rock face where traversing is necessary. a narrow traverse made lethal by snow and ice Example sentencesExamples The final section of the traverse was a bit of a challenge: delicate, balancey moves with next to nothing for hands or feet. I duly followed, passing a man trying to negotiate the slabby traverse. Long, scary traverses and razor sharp rock require the confidence and the security of half ropes. This was handy, but also meant that the heavy bag of rope I had lugged in, getting constantly trapped in the narrow rift below the traverses, was all for nothing - oh well! We made good time to the Skeleton Domes area and squeezed up into the Rat Race to reach a series of traverses and climbs that came close to exceeding my confidence factor. A traverse then leads to a ledge from which a short narrow descent may be rigged to the streamway below. It was his second time on the traverse and his return this summer was in preparation for a winter assault negotiating the eleven peaks. Alan climbed up to a high traverse to see if they could be bypassed but there was no easy way on. We made the traverse out and were at the last climb for the easy path leading back to homebase. This is best learned on an overhanging traverse, or at least, that's how I learned it. The way on is a traverse round a mud bank to the left, which climbs into a passage above the calcite floor. The way back follows a less popular route, via a rocky cleft above the lower lake, which begins with a traverse on which, I must confess, I tried to avoid looking down. Finally, I rounded the giant granite corner of the traverse, relieved to find Ben in sight again. An unprotectable traverse back across the route goes on for about 10m. Underground I was rather nervous at first but that soon disappeared except for a few places such as the first set of traverses, which for a normal fit person would be fine. A short traverse led to the foot of the cornice and I managed to ease my way across to it, virtually hanging from my ice axe. When they reached the steep traverse off the ridge that had been their only difficulty on the way up, Douglas Hadow again began to have trouble keeping his footing. The traverse was fine, it circled the gym - not too hard to stay on but fun enough to stay on all the way around. 1.2 A movement following a diagonal course made by a skier descending a slope. I make long gentle traverses down the steepest sections Example sentencesExamples We drop through Navajo Basin to about 12,300 feet at the base of the face, making a few turns and traverses on crusty snow. During his days at Camp Hale, Winter participated in the legendary ski traverse made by 33 soldiers from Hale to Aspen, in 1944. He'd make a powerful traverse, knock off a good-sized avalanche, then turn around and make a few turns where the slide had scoured. Also, skiers doing long traverses with little emphasis on making turns found the lightweight edged Nordic skis to be a good tool. For our backpacking trips and multi-day ski traverses we like the Nimbus Ozone. I have second thoughts as I begin to cut a traverse up and across a powdery leeward slope. Everybody, even our best skiers, cautiously sidestepped down the first narrow pitch, then made cautious traverses and kick turns. 1.3 A zigzag course taken by a ship because winds or currents prevent it from sailing directly towards its destination. 2A part of a structure that extends or is fixed across something. there were three jewels in the traverse of the cross and four in the body Example sentencesExamples The access to the feed was adapted to the size of animals with a traverse allowing only one animal to enter. These were of brick, built on the surface but surrounded with a traverse and topped with a six foot thick shingle filled concrete sandwich roof. 2.1 A gallery extending from side to side of a church or other building. 3A mechanism enabling a large gun to be turned to face a different direction. they had been practising firing at multiple targets, using the power traverse Example sentencesExamples The gun's traverse was steam-operated and took 3 hours to build up enough steam pressure to function. The program will also include a laser ignition system, electric drives for the howitzer's traverse and elevation and a powered projectile rammer. Each time the gun is fired, the tube must go into detente for cartridge ejection, and the power traverse of the turret is inoperable during ejection and reloading operations. The elevation and traverse are powered hydraulically. 3.1mass noun The sideways movement of a part in a machine. Example sentencesExamples The 14 mm gun has a full 360° traverse with an elevation of 60° for improved effectiveness in air defence. The gun's traverse was limited to a mere five degrees either side of zero. The turret machine gun can also be operated from under armor by being mounted on a circular revolving ring for automatic traverse. The AFCS displays the target information, selects the gun traverse and elevation and lays the weapon on the target. During this climb, the traverse of the turret knocked Treacy off. The turret has a 360 degree traverse and an elevation of - 15 to + 60 degrees. 4A single line of survey, usually plotted from compass bearings and measured distances between successive points. Example sentencesExamples There are several ways to obtain the starting data, and surveyors should make an effort to use the best data available to begin a traverse. 4.1 An area of land surveyed with a traverse. Example sentencesExamples Whilst surveying a traverse, the horizontal angle at station B, between two adjacent stations A and C, was measured as having a value of 153o 44' 50". In surveying a traverse, a series of measured short lines may be projected onto a single long line, connecting two main survey stations, and the long line is then treated as a measured line of the traverse. 5Military A pair of right-angled bends incorporated in a trench to avoid enfilading fire. he crept up and threw a grenade over the traverse Example sentencesExamples "Sir," announced an orderly, poking his head around a traverse in the trench, "dinner is served." This ship is full of officers and men who are quite likely to be utterly ignorant of what was going on round the next traverse in the trench which they had occupied. 6 variant spelling of travers Derivatives traversable adjective trəˈvəːsəb(ə)ltrəˈvərsəb(ə)l You can't leave the track just anywhere, no matter how traversable the road shoulder may appear. Example sentencesExamples The researchers found that the flies first visually measure the gap width and then only cross the gap if it is a traversable width. It, too, was separated from the rest of the land, but only by easily traversable grasslands and hills. Hence we may assume local woods had the normal mix of mature and younger trees and were quite traversable. The only flat, traversable region of the Isthmus is on the Pacific side - where the coastal Zapotecs live. traversal noun trəˈvəːsəltrəˈvərs(ə)l His account of the traversal of the wilderness and the creation of a politics of the frontier surrounding Bingham's practice is rich and varied. Example sentencesExamples The novel as a whole deals with the central character's traversal of a variety of psycho-geographic locations, as identified by Simon Gikandi. Transportation, as traversal, is the crossing, which is movement as such. The desert can be quite cold during the winter months; the train left well before sunrise, so we witnessed that during our traversal of the desert. Perhaps the most uncanny portion of The Lord of the Rings, without terrible horror, but with an air of hopeless regret, is the traversal of the bog created by the battle which ended the previous age centuries before. Origin Middle English (in sense 3 of the verb): from Old French traverser, from late Latin traversare; the noun is from Old French travers (masculine), traverse (feminine), partly based on traverser. Definition of traverse in US English: traverse verbtrəˈvərstrəˈvərs [with object] 1Travel across or through. he traversed the forest Example sentencesExamples Before I knew it, we had traversed Yellowhead Pass, one of the lowest in the Continental Divide, yet, at 3,718 feet, the highest point the train crosses. Deserts were crossed, mountains were scaled, forests were traversed, icebergs were negotiated. Wild animals and birds traversing contiguous forest stretches have no clue that there might be restrictions. From Trowunna I head north, leaving behind the forested hills of the interior to traverse an expanse of rolling countryside strikingly reminiscent of England. In traversing the country, you can expect to pass through San Jose a few times, so enjoy yourself. In 1991, he traversed the State, covering 2,850 km on a bicycle. It has been a long road to freedom, traversing the difficult terrain of learning to live with each other, learning to accept each other. The total area traversed by participants covers thousands of square miles. Before the advent of roads or railways, the sheer difficulty in traversing Peru's geography was one of the greatest obstacles to solidifying a national identity. By the time we had traversed the thickly forested coastal plain it was dark, and nothing could be seen through the windows except the black night. I watched the man with furtive caution as we traversed the forest, for I didn't trust him, even if he did not seem villainous. Starting from Taiwan, he traversed the Indian Ocean after passing through the Strait of Malacca. In total they covered 67.5 miles, traversing the loch three times, in water that was only a shivering 11 degrees centigrade. Both traversed the forest swiftly and easily, scurrying over rocks and against foliage with utmost grace. ‘Joseph,’ Conall spoke up, as they reached the edge of the forest, having traversed the distance in silence. It is possible to traverse the entire range by walking the two-thousand-mile Appalachian Trail. After three days in the forest, they had spent another four traversing the extensive foothills before reaching the Mountains. That will see him traversing the Americas, covering the 25,000 kilometres from Ushuia, the world's most southern city, up to the icy wastes of Alaska. He would repeatedly cheer us up by assuring us that our team was the first to uninterruptedly traverse this difficult, and unique, coast-to-coast route. He spends his summers traversing the Midwest in his studio Winnebago, painting lush forest scenes resplendent with deer, lakes, and waterfalls on things like garage doors. Synonyms travel across, travel over, cross, journey across, journey over, make one's way across, pass over, go across, negotiate 1.1 Extend across or through. a moving catwalk that traversed a vast cavernous space Example sentencesExamples People from elsewhere may be surprised at how good skiing is on the edge of the prairie in northwestern Minnesota, on trails that traverse rolling glacial moraines near Maplelag. The show presents its monumental architecture, its military might, the way it controlled and administered its dominions through provincial satrapies and the network of roads that traversed its vast distances. One current regime traversing the globe and in particular, the United States, is the Federal Communications Commission. Precontact culture was heavily influenced by the natural terrain as the Ojibwa adapted their lifestyle to survive in a heavily forested land traversed by a network of lakes and rivers. The total Solar eclipse falls on November 23rd and will be visible from within a narrow corridor which traverses the far Southern Hemisphere. Empathy with the landscape is expressed not only through the extended architectural promenade that traverses the contours of the site, but also through the material character of the Natatorium. Numerous active and historic gas and oil utility corridors traverse forests of the region. Long, gently inclined staircases traverse the interior space, affording glimpses through slits in the gallery ceilings that act as peepholes to events above or below. In small towns, concrete buildings are strung along the few roads that traverse the islands. The country has a rugged topography, with three Andean mountain ranges traversing the western half, although the country's highest peaks are located off the Caribbean coast in the Sierra Nevada. In Celebration, a narrow band of hot pink, blue and white, trimmed in red, diagonally traverses the glowing disk. She stood in the middle of the path that traversed the park, covering her face with her hands. Highway 50 traverses a dozen of these valleys and passes; driven in a day they succeed one another like musical variations, with their subtle differences of colour and form. This area, the more southerly of the two, is on a steep slope and traversed by a narrow street. I choose instead a flat six-mile track traversing Licuala State Forest Park, where the giant fan palms and prehistoric cycad trees start a few feet from the parking lot. In order to take advantage of the more moderate terrain and the available real estate, many of the McCoy Park trails traverse the ridge top and lower meadow several times. Synonyms extend across, lie across, stretch across, go across, cross, cut across 1.2no object, with adverbial of direction Cross a hill or mountain by means of a series of sideways movements from one practicable line of ascent or descent to another. I often use this route, eventually traversing around the cliff Example sentencesExamples Yet more traversing on easy ledges above the stream channel enables one to gain the top of ‘Lake Pot’, which lands, funnily enough, in a lake! By traversing over the pitch a dry crawl is reached, containing a few formations, which shortly divides at a T-junction. From here on out it's pretty much easy stuff, so just get up however you feel like it by traversing to the right. He then continued along the wall ahead, and after about 50 m or so began traversing around an overhang. Surveying as we went we soon reached the pool and had no problem traversing around. Point Release avalanches are not very dangerous, but can knock you over, so watch out for them if you are traversing along a cliff side! The same point can reached from below the short wall at the top of Jeune Ecole by traversing rightwards 10m. About fifteen feet up the heap is a crawl-through, which leads to more traversing in a fissure passage, and a straddle down a short chimney onto blocks. As the gully became wider on the descent, we were forced to traverse ever farther left, on tiny broken ledges, eventually reaching the top of the wall. A continuation of the river may be found at the bottom of the mud slope, but the way on is to traverse round to the right. Once on the slab, I should have traversed about 15 feet left and then gone up. So when you arrive at the gym, take about 5 minutes to traverse at the base of the wall. This looks quite frightening from the top, but it is easily descended by traversing to the far side of the hole. Right before the steepest section, we were able to traverse onto a rock ledge and have lunch. I lose an hour traversing left to a dubious bridge, from which I leap onto the face, metal-clawed hands and feet stabbing into the snow. We roped up at the base, did our cross-check, then climbed up a short wall and across easy slopes, traversing upward and left until we reached an obvious belay. From there, we traversed across ledges and slabs toward the next belay. Pass your right foot in front of your left (or perhaps, in extreme circumstances, behind); this is a ‘step-through’, used a lot in traversing. The time-pressed can try bouldering, which entails traversing and short ascents that can be completed sans rope. 1.3 Ski diagonally across (a slope), with only a slight descent. Example sentencesExamples Speaking of which, even with the late arrival of winter, Pamporovo was definitely fit for skiing last weekend with tons of snow and every ski run ready to be traversed. They were traversing Windy Ridge in Uintah back country known for heavy avalanche activity, he said. When the time came to retrieve the plates, we had to traverse slopes that had more than a meter of new snow. Four of the group had already traversed the slope on skis; the fifth was on crampons when a small snow slab of some 30 cm depth took him and another trainee over cliffs. Although most skiers traverse the Inside Road from north to south, both directions demand stamina with substantial elevation gains and losses. Witnesses saw an avalanche start as a skier left the pistes and traversed the slope. 1.4 Consider or discuss the whole extent of (a subject) he would traverse a number of subjects and disciplines Example sentencesExamples Debates about international justice typically range over the well-traversed terrain of distribution and redistribution. I do not intend to traverse the issues already covered by Dr Wayne Mapp. The committee was also privy to Cabinet papers that had traversed the issue with a lot of scrutiny. Your Honour, the objection is that that is an assertion concerning factual matters which are traversed in judgments of the Full Court and the decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. It was a matter traversed in the affidavit material. Connell and Gibson deeply enrich our ability to traverse this seemingly infinite scholarly terrain. Although, understandably, the discussions traverse a wide area of opinion there seem to be four main conclusions that are put forward as the cause of the crisis. In any event, what can be said is that it did not play a role in the findings of fact about causal connections which had been much traversed in two trials and two appeals and are no longer contested. Your Honour, there will be a need to traverse those issues in argument. In the final session, students debated the merits of acknowledging taha Maori in their practice, traversing issues raised by Johnstone and Read. Your Honour, I do not anticipate a dispute about the facts traversed by Mr Moore. The thematic landscape traversed by scholars of cultural globalization is vast and the questions they raise are too numerous to be fleshed out in this short introduction. 2Move (something) back and forth or sideways. a probe is traversed along the tunnel Example sentencesExamples Probes were constructed, thankfully unmanned, that could traverse space for long enough to touch down on the face of a planet and act as a beacon, or as a receiving antenna for the light matter. Oxygen is passed down the tube, which is rotated while an oxy-hydrogen flame is slowly traversed down its length. Setting the time delay between the pump and the probe was achieved by varying the distance traversed by the probe beam with a motorized mechanical stage. The machine also automates the process of traversing a focused and uniform hot-air stream along the length of the tubing to be laminated. As the plane came within range, the searchlight traversed its flight path only to hit a cloud. Each node would carry only one pointer field to traverse the list back and forth. The reader traverses the beam in the opposite direction to that of the object under test to reduce image blur. 2.1 Turn (a large gun or other device on a pivot) to face a different direction. Example sentencesExamples The close proximity of light poles, vending stands and buildings severely limited our ability to traverse the turret. The casemate mounted a gun on a pivot which could be traversed to fire through an embrasure. Vehicles would move to ‘points of domination’ (the intersections) to maximize the ability to traverse the turret and use the CITV. When we did traverse the aircraft, it took a thorough brief and exact timing of the pitch and roll of the ship. While patrolling narrow streets, it is nearly impossible to safely traverse the entire turret to engage enemy forces. I fought open hatch the whole way and ordered Red 1 to do the same, as we were very vulnerable from the flanks as we approached the market and could not traverse our turrets well there. 3Law Deny (an allegation) in pleading. Example sentencesExamples I there said that it is ‘every fact which it would be necessary for the plaintiff to prove, if traversed, in order to support his right to the judgment of the Court.’ Cause of action has been held from the earliest time to mean every fact which is material to be proved to entitle the plaintiff to succeed - every fact which the defendant would have to traverse. The defendants traversed the allegation "that the ship was broken, damaged, and destroyed, and rendered incapable of pursuing the voyage, by any perils which the said assurers by the said policy did take upon themselves." He said it was relevant that neither the Government nor the Bangalore Development Authority had specifically traversed the allegation of discrimination. The first issue is that he was obviously in a great tactical difficulty - he would have been traversing his own case if he was going to suggest that something less than the commercial quantity could have been manufactured. Each and every allegation herein contained is denied as if specifically traversed and the Claimant is put to the proof thereof. 3.1archaic Oppose or thwart (a plan). Example sentencesExamples Unfortunately his plans were traversed by the Pope. When he discovered that the revolutions in Central Italy traversed his plan, he should have warned Victor Emanuel and Cavour that this new condition would warrant him in breaking his compact. But his plans were traversed again and again by unforeseen complications, the failure of the most promising presumptions, and the perpetual shifting of apparently stable alliances. Synonyms foil, frustrate, baulk, stand in the way of, forestall nountrəˈvərstrəˈvərs 1An act of traversing something. Example sentencesExamples It was a traverse through a world of humility, patience and submission - a long and tedious journey to be undertaken with faith, conviction and cheerfulness. As well as his Taranaki successes Ian completed a grand traverse of Mount Cook: from The Hermitage to the mountain and back again in 28 hours, a climb that usually takes three days. But he didn't answer, simply stumbled into the middle of the road, disrupting the monotonous traverse of the sedans and hatchbacks and wagons. Mr Tate, an experienced walker, has completed the same traverse undertaken by Mr Johnson. From Osmaston's guide, it appeared that no one had made a complete traverse of the Stanley Plateau. The high traverse of the undulating, narrow ridge led to the final difficulties of the day. And indeed, our short traverse to my home was not without incident. The traverse of the ridge should be within the capabilities of any reasonably fit walker. This spot, perhaps more than any other, has witnessed the traverse of the world's great armies on campaigns of conquest to and from South and Central Asia. Right now, they will design the rover's traverses based on visual data from the images and will give her specific commands and directions. They'll find out soon enough, and the traverses across the featureless, flat topography of Meridiani Planum is going to make for ‘smooth sailing’ for the rover. On day seven the hiking group is met by a re-supply group at Bannerman's Pass and among those in the revictualling group is Ida de Villiers, who had buddied with Jenny on two previous traverses. After a long traverse the path turns right and enters a stand of conifers. As any seasoned Gotham pavement pounder will tell you, the traverse from, say, the Harlem River to the South Ferry Terminal is no easy stroll. The explorers would undertake long traverses, thoroughly studying and recording the characteristics of the region around their landing site. Synonyms traversal, traverse, passage, voyage, journey 1.1 A hill or mountain where traversing is necessary. a narrow traverse made lethal by snow and ice Example sentencesExamples The final section of the traverse was a bit of a challenge: delicate, balancey moves with next to nothing for hands or feet. Finally, I rounded the giant granite corner of the traverse, relieved to find Ben in sight again. We made the traverse out and were at the last climb for the easy path leading back to homebase. An unprotectable traverse back across the route goes on for about 10m. A short traverse led to the foot of the cornice and I managed to ease my way across to it, virtually hanging from my ice axe. This was handy, but also meant that the heavy bag of rope I had lugged in, getting constantly trapped in the narrow rift below the traverses, was all for nothing - oh well! Long, scary traverses and razor sharp rock require the confidence and the security of half ropes. The way back follows a less popular route, via a rocky cleft above the lower lake, which begins with a traverse on which, I must confess, I tried to avoid looking down. Underground I was rather nervous at first but that soon disappeared except for a few places such as the first set of traverses, which for a normal fit person would be fine. The traverse was fine, it circled the gym - not too hard to stay on but fun enough to stay on all the way around. I duly followed, passing a man trying to negotiate the slabby traverse. This is best learned on an overhanging traverse, or at least, that's how I learned it. The way on is a traverse round a mud bank to the left, which climbs into a passage above the calcite floor. Alan climbed up to a high traverse to see if they could be bypassed but there was no easy way on. A traverse then leads to a ledge from which a short narrow descent may be rigged to the streamway below. When they reached the steep traverse off the ridge that had been their only difficulty on the way up, Douglas Hadow again began to have trouble keeping his footing. We made good time to the Skeleton Domes area and squeezed up into the Rat Race to reach a series of traverses and climbs that came close to exceeding my confidence factor. It was his second time on the traverse and his return this summer was in preparation for a winter assault negotiating the eleven peaks. 1.2 A movement following a diagonal course made by a skier descending a slope. Example sentencesExamples Also, skiers doing long traverses with little emphasis on making turns found the lightweight edged Nordic skis to be a good tool. We drop through Navajo Basin to about 12,300 feet at the base of the face, making a few turns and traverses on crusty snow. Everybody, even our best skiers, cautiously sidestepped down the first narrow pitch, then made cautious traverses and kick turns. For our backpacking trips and multi-day ski traverses we like the Nimbus Ozone. I have second thoughts as I begin to cut a traverse up and across a powdery leeward slope. During his days at Camp Hale, Winter participated in the legendary ski traverse made by 33 soldiers from Hale to Aspen, in 1944. He'd make a powerful traverse, knock off a good-sized avalanche, then turn around and make a few turns where the slide had scoured. 1.3 A zigzag course followed by a ship because winds or currents prevent it from sailing directly toward its destination. 2A part of a structure that extends or is fixed across something. Example sentencesExamples The access to the feed was adapted to the size of animals with a traverse allowing only one animal to enter. These were of brick, built on the surface but surrounded with a traverse and topped with a six foot thick shingle filled concrete sandwich roof. 2.1 A gallery extending from side to side of a church or other building. 3A mechanism enabling a large gun to be turned to face a different direction. Example sentencesExamples The program will also include a laser ignition system, electric drives for the howitzer's traverse and elevation and a powered projectile rammer. The elevation and traverse are powered hydraulically. Each time the gun is fired, the tube must go into detente for cartridge ejection, and the power traverse of the turret is inoperable during ejection and reloading operations. The gun's traverse was steam-operated and took 3 hours to build up enough steam pressure to function. 3.1 The sideways movement of a part in a machine. Example sentencesExamples The turret has a 360 degree traverse and an elevation of - 15 to + 60 degrees. The 14 mm gun has a full 360° traverse with an elevation of 60° for improved effectiveness in air defence. The gun's traverse was limited to a mere five degrees either side of zero. The AFCS displays the target information, selects the gun traverse and elevation and lays the weapon on the target. The turret machine gun can also be operated from under armor by being mounted on a circular revolving ring for automatic traverse. During this climb, the traverse of the turret knocked Treacy off. 4A single line of survey, usually plotted from compass bearings and chained or paced distances between angular points. Example sentencesExamples There are several ways to obtain the starting data, and surveyors should make an effort to use the best data available to begin a traverse. 4.1 A tract surveyed by traversing. Example sentencesExamples In surveying a traverse, a series of measured short lines may be projected onto a single long line, connecting two main survey stations, and the long line is then treated as a measured line of the traverse. Whilst surveying a traverse, the horizontal angle at station B, between two adjacent stations A and C, was measured as having a value of 153o 44' 50". 5Military A pair of right-angled bends incorporated in a trench to avoid enfilading fire. Example sentencesExamples "Sir," announced an orderly, poking his head around a traverse in the trench, "dinner is served." This ship is full of officers and men who are quite likely to be utterly ignorant of what was going on round the next traverse in the trench which they had occupied. 6 variant spelling of travers adjectivetrəˈvərstrəˈvərs (of a curtain rod) allowing the curtain to be opened and closed by sliding it along the rod. Example sentencesExamples If the draperies will hang from a conventional traverse rod, determine the finished length by measuring from the top of the rod to where you want the lower edge of the draperies. There is so much on the market today - decorative traverse rods, pole sets, metal or wood rods. Drapery panels are traditionally floor-length, lined and pinch-pleated, attached by hook to a traverse rod, with a pull cord. Origin Middle English (in traverse (sense 3 of the verb)): from Old French traverser, from late Latin traversare; the noun is from Old French travers (masculine), traverse (feminine), partly based on traverser.
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