Traverse

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
2. isim 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.”

3. isim 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 […]”

4. isim Something that thwarts or obstructs.

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

5. isim A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
6. isim 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. isim The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
8. isim A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
9. isim 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.”

10. isim 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.”

11. fiil To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.

    “He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.”

12. fiil To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.

    “to traverse all nodes in a network”

13. fiil To lay in a cross direction; to cross.

    “The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds.”

14. fiil To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.

    “to traverse a cannon”

15. fiil To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
16. fiil To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.

    “the road traversed the face of the ridge as the right-of-way climbed the mountain”

17. fiil To act against; to thwart or obstruct.

    “The well meaning Prieſt ſuffered him to deceive himſelf, fully determined to traverſe his views, inſtead of ſeconding them.”

18. fiil To pass over and view; to survey carefully.

    “My purpose is to […] traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice—ingratitude.”

19. fiil To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.

    “to traverse a board”

20. fiil To deny formally.

    “Without their coſt, you terminate the cauſe; / And ſave th' expence of long litigious laws: / Where ſuits are travers'd; and ſo little won, / That he who conquers, is but laſt undone: […]”

21. fiil To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
22. zarf athwart; across; crosswise
23. sıfat Lying across; being in a direction across something else.

    “paths cut with traverse trenches”

24. özel isim A surname from French.