| 单词 | traverse |
| 释义 | traverse v. & n. --v 1. tr. travel or lie across (traversed the country; a pit traversed by a beam). 2. tr. consider or discuss the whole extent of (a subject). 3. tr. turn (a large gun) horizontally. 4. tr. Law deny (an allegation) in pleading. 5. tr. thwart, frustrate, or oppose (a plan or opinion). 6. intr. (of the needle of a compass etc.) turn on or as on a pivot. 7. intr. (of a horse) walk obliquely. 8. intr. make a traverse in climbing. --n 1. a sideways movement. 2. an act of traversing. 3. a thing, esp. part of a structure, that crosses another. 4. a gallery extending from side to side of a church or other building. 5. a a single line of survey, usu. plotted from compass bearings and chained or paced distances between angular points. b a tract surveyed in this way. 6. Naut. a zigzag line taken by a ship because of contrary winds or currents. 7. a skier's similar movement on a slope. 8. the sideways movement of a part in a machine. 9. a a sideways motion across a rock-face from one practicable line of ascent or descent to another. b a place where this is necessary. 10. Mil. a pair of right-angle bends in a trench to avoid enfilading fire. 11. Law a denial, esp. of an allegation of a matter of fact. 12. the act of turning a large gun horizontally to the required direction. Derivatives traversable adj. traversal n. traverser n. Etymology: OF traverser f. LL traversare, transversare (as TRANSVERSE) |
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