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Transverse vs Overthwart - What's the difference?

transverse | overthwart |

As adjectives the difference between transverse and overthwart

is that transverse is situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction while overthwart is having a transverse position; placed or situated across; hence, opposite.

As nouns the difference between transverse and overthwart

is that transverse is anything that is transverse or athwart while overthwart is that which is overthwart; an adverse circumstance; opposition.

As a verb transverse

is to overturn; to change.

As a preposition overthwart is

from one side to the other of; across.

transverse

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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.

    • Antonyms

    * (lying across) longitudinal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that is transverse or athwart.
  • (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

    • Verb

    (transvers)
  • To overturn; to change.
  • * Rev. Charles Leslie
    • 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shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed , suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?
  • (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
    • (Duke of Buckingham)
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    overthwart

    English

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • From one side to the other of; across.
  • *:
  • *:And when he came to the pavilions, he tied his horse unto a tree, and pulled out his sword naked in his hand, and went to them thereas they lay, and yet he thought it were shame to slay them sleeping, and laid the naked sword overthwart both their throats, and so took his horse and rode his way.
  • *:• :
  • *::And whanne he came to the pauelions / he tayed his hors vnto a tree / and pulled oute his swerd naked in his hand / and wente to them there as they lay / and yet he thought it were shame to slee them slepynge / and layd the naked swerd ouerthwart bothe their throtes / and soo tooke his hors and rode his awaye
  • *1663 , , (Hudibras) , part 1,
  • *:For when a giant's slain in fight, / And mow'd o'erthwart , or cleft downright, / It is a heavy case, no doubt, / A man should have his brains beat out
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Huge trees overthwart one another.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a transverse position; placed or situated across; hence, opposite.
  • * Dryden
    • Our overthwart neighbours.
  • Crossing in kind or disposition; perverse; adverse; opposing.
  • * Clarendon
    • Overthwart humour.

    Noun

  • (obsolete) That which is overthwart; an adverse circumstance; opposition.
    • (Surrey)