English-German translations for traverse

Definition of traverse

  • A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent
  • A screen or partition
  • Something that thwarts or obstructs
  • A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building
  • 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
  • A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal
  • To travel across, often under difficult conditions
  • To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly
  • To lay in a cross direction; to cross
  • To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target
  • , To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope
  • To act against; to thwart or obstruct
  • To pass over and view; to survey carefully
  • To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood
  • To deny formally
  • To use the motions of opposition or counteraction
  • athwart; across; crosswise
  • Lying across; being in a direction across something else

Examples

  • He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control.
  • He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.
  • to traverse all nodes in a network
  • to traverse a cannon
  • the road traversed the face of the ridge as the right-of-way climbed the mountain
  • The last run, weary, I traversed the descents in no hurry to reach the lodge.
  • to traverse a board
  • paths cut with traverse trenches

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