traverses

Meaning of traverses

noun
  1. A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
  2. A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
  3. A screen or partition.
  4. Something that thwarts or obstructs.
    He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control.
  5. A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
  6. A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
  7. The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
  8. A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
  9. In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
  10. A traverse board.
verb
  1. To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
    He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.
  2. To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
    to traverse all nodes in a network
  3. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
  4. (artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
    to traverse a cannon
  5. , To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
  6. To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
    The last run, weary, I traversed the descents in no hurry to reach the lodge.
  7. To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
  8. To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
  9. To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
    to traverse a board
  10. To deny formally.
  11. To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.

Information about traverses

  • The singular form of traverses is: traverse.
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Hyphenation of traverses

tra-verses

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • traverses is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

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