traverse

IPA: trˈævɝs

(climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
(surveying) 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.
(obsolete) A screen or partition.
Something that thwarts or obstructs.
(architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
(law) 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).
(nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
(geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
(military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
(nautical) A traverse board.
A surname from French.

(transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
(transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
(weaponry) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
(climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
(engineering, skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
(carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
(law) To deny formally.
(intransitive, fencing) To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.

Examples of "traverse" in Sentences

The travellers traversed the continent.
The Hamgyong Mountains traverse the county.
The grinding wheel does not traverse the workpiece.
The carriage traverses the length of the press brake.
I didn’t post the insane plank and chain traverse pics.
To Dick and Sam Bolton the traverse was a simple matter.
The dumb monkey randomly traverses a path in the program.
The lighter particles traverse the analyzer tube the fastest.
Sometimes a flying saucer will traverse the top of the screen.
Do the canals and pumps traverse nearly the length of the state
The trunks reshuffle as they traverse towards the arm into cords.
The traverse was a short one, the morning fine, and the boats good.
Such a band of practised and educated soldiers may never again traverse England.
The traverse is the home of spare ammunition, of ball cartridge, bombs, and hand-grenades.
Where i live in traverse city the season start is quite chilly this year so i dont exactly know if that would be true.
I traverse from the side of the course, where there is actually a little bit of loose snow to ski in, across the ice-covered racing line.
Another step of his heavy boot knocked loose stones free from the ledge, and Chaltiford realized that the traverse was a little more challenging than he had first suspected.