Transverse vs Dogcart - What's the difference?
transverse | dogcart |
Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.
(geometry, of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
Anything that is transverse or athwart.
(geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
To overturn; to change.
* Rev. Charles Leslie
(obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
A cart drawn by a dog.
A two wheeled horse-drawn carriage with two transverse seats back to back. The rear seat originally closed up to form a box for carrying dogs.
* 1903
* {{quote-book
, year = 1967
, first = Barbara
, last = Sleigh
, authorlink = Barbara Sleigh
, title = (Jessamy)
, edition = 1993
, location = Sevenoaks, Kent
, publisher=Bloomsbury
, isbn = 0 340 19547 9
, page = 57
, url =
, passage = While Kitto chatted to William, Jessamy looked with interest at the dog cart . It had a pair of high wooden wheels with two seats back to back above. Between the shafts the bay mare tossed her head and fidgeted on the cobbles.
}}
As nouns the difference between transverse and dogcart
is that transverse is anything that is transverse or athwart while dogcart is a cart drawn by a dog.As a adjective transverse
is situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.As a verb transverse
is to overturn; to change.transverse
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* (lying across) longitudinalNoun
(en noun)Verb
(transvers)- And so long shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed , suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?
- (Duke of Buckingham)
dogcart
English
Alternative forms
* dog cart * dog-cartNoun
(en noun)- At the same instant an empty dog-cart , the horse cantering, the reins trailing, appeared round the curve of the road and rattled swiftly towards us.
