English Dictionary

traverse

/tɹəˈvɝs/

noun

(climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.

We had to traverse a narrow ridge to reach the summit.

意味（1）

(climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.

意味（2）

(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.

At the entrance of the king, the first traverse was drawn, and the lower descent of the mountain discovered, which was the pendant of a hill to life, with divers boscages and grovets upon the steep or hanging grounds thereof.

意味（3）

(obsolete) A screen or partition.

Than sholde ye see there pressynge in a pace / Of one and other that wolde this lady see, / Whiche sat behynde a traves of sylke fyne, / Of golde of tessew the fynest that myghte be […]

意味（4）

Something that thwarts or obstructs.

He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control.

意味（5）

(architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.

意味（6）

(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).

意味（7）

(nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.

意味（8）

(geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.

意味（9）

(military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.

At night, when the Federal guns slowed their fire, the men created new traverses and bombproofs.

意味（10）

(nautical) A traverse board.

The whole care of the vessel rested, therefore, upon me, and I was obliged to direct her by my former experience, not being able to work a traverse.