Traverse

Noun

 * 1)  A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
 * 2)  In fortification, a mass of earth or other material employed to protect troops against enfilade. It is constructed at right angles to the parapet.
 * 3)  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.

Related terms

 * traversal
 * Big Traverse Bay
 * tree traversal

Verb

 * 1)  To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
 * He will have to traverse the mountain before he gets to the other side.
 * 1)  To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly; as, to traverse all nodes in a network.
 * 2)  To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
 * 3)  To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle.

Thesaurus
across, across the grain, athwart, athwartships, bar, be at cross-purposes, be contrary to, belie, boat, bridge, buck, call into question, canoe, carry sail, challenge, check, circumnavigate, coast, combat, conflict with, consider, contemplate, contest, contradict, contrariwise, contravene, contrawise, controvert, counter, counteract, countervail, counterwork, course, cover, crisscross, cross, cross bitt, cross-grained, crossarm, crossbar, crosscut, crossing, crosspiece, crossway, crossways, crosswise, cruciate, cruise, cut across, decussate, deny, disaffirm, dismiss, dispute, do, doubletree, duel, examine, fight, gainsay, go across, go against, go by ship, go on shipboard, go over, go to sea, hurdle, impediment, impugn, inspect, intercross, intersect, investigate, join the opposition, lie across, look at, look into, look over, make a passage, measure, motorboat, navigate, negate, negative, not abide, oblique, obliquely, observe, obstruct, obstruction, oppose, oppugn, overpass, overthwart, pace, pass over, pass through, patrol, perambulate, peregrinate, pererrate, play at cross-purposes, ply, protest, quarter, range, range over, rebut, reconnoiter, reject, repel, resist, review, roam, row, rub, run, run against, run counter to, sail, sail round, sail the sea, scan, scour, scour the country, scout, scrutinize, scull, seafare, sideways, sidewise, singletree, snag, squash, squelch, steam, steamboat, study, stumbling block, survey, sweep, swingletree, take a voyage, take issue with, thwart, thwartly, thwartways, tour, track, tramp, transept, transit, transom, transversal, transverse, transversely, travel over, travel through, tread, vote against, voyage, walk, wander, whippletree, withstand, yacht

Etymology
From trans across + versus turned, perfect passive participle of vertere, turn

Verb

 * Danish: at traversere
 * French: ,
 * Old French:
 * Polish: trawersować


 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Urdu:


 * Danish: at traversere

Anagrams

 * averters

Noun

 * 1)  sleeper (UK), tie (US)

Etymology 1
traversa:, feminine of traversus:.

Etymology 2
Inflected forms.

Anagrams

 * réservât
 * reversât

Adjective
traverse


 * 1) Feminine plural form of traverso

Noun
traverse



Anagrams

 * varreste