Dictionary Entry
traverse
traverse is a 8-letter English word with 30 senses as adjective, adverb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 30 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
- 2adverb
Athwart; across; crosswise.
- 3adjective
Anything that traverses, or crosses.
- 4adjective
Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
- 5adjective
A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
- 6adjective
A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- 7adjective
A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.
- 8adjective
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; that is, without this which follows.
- 9adjective
The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- 10adjective
A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- 11adjective
A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
- 12adjective
The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
- 13adjective
A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.
- 14adjective
To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- 15adjective
To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.
- 16adjective
To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
- 17adjective
To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
- 18adjective
To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
- 19adjective
To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
- 20adjective
To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it.
- 21intransitive verb
To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.
- 22intransitive verb
To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel; as, the needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.
- 23intransitive verb
To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.
- 24noun
travel across
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- 25noun
taking a zigzag path on skis
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- 26noun
a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
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- 27noun
a horizontal beam that extends across something
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- 28verb
deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
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- 29verb
travel across or pass over
"The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"
- 30verb
to cover or extend over an area or time period, "The parking lot spans 3 acres"
"Rivers traverse the valley floor"
"The novel spans three centuries"
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