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Traverse vs Overgo - What's the difference?

traverse | overgo |

As verbs the difference between traverse and overgo

is that traverse is while overgo is .

As a noun overgo is

(genetics) a sequence of overlapping oligonucleotides, used to design hybridization.

traverse

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
  • (military) In fortification, a mass of earth or other material employed to protect troops against enfilade. It is constructed at right angles to the parapet.
  • (surveying) 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.
  • (obsolete) A screen or partition.
  • * 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Court :
  • 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
  • * F. Beaumont
  • At the entrance of the king, / The first traverse was drawn.
  • Something that thwarts or obstructs.
  • He would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
  • A trick; a subterfuge.
  • (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
  • (Gwilt)
  • (legal) 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).
  • (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
  • (geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
  • (firearms) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
  • Verb

  • To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
  • He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • what seas you traversed , and what fields you fought
  • (computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
  • to traverse all nodes in a network
  • (artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
  • to traverse a cannon
  • (climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle.
  • To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
  • * Dryden
  • The parts should be often traversed , or crossed, by the flowing of the folds.
  • To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • I cannot but admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse .
  • To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
  • * South
  • My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice — ingratitude.
  • (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
  • to traverse a board
  • (legal) To deny formally.
  • * Dryden
  • And save the expense of long litigious laws, / Where suits are traversed , and so little won / That he who conquers is but last undone.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • athwart; across; crosswise
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lying across; being in a direction across something else.
  • paths cut with traverse trenches
  • * Sir H. Wotton
  • Oak being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work.
  • * Hayward
  • the ridges of the fallow field traverse

    Derived terms

    * traverse drill

    Anagrams

    * ----

    overgo

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) overgon, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To pass (a figurative barrier); to transgress.
  • *1882 , John Payne, trans., The Thousand Nights and One Night , vol 3:
  • *:How many an one in its vanities hath gloried and taken pride, / Till froward and arrogant thus he grew and did all bounds o'ergo !
  • *1818 , John Keats, Endymion , II:
  • *:He did not rave, he did not stare aghast, / For all those visions were o'ergone , and past [...].
  • To spread across (something); to overrun.
  • To go over, move over the top of, travel across the surface of; to traverse, travel through.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
  • *:forward rode, and kept her readie way / Along the strond, which as she ouer-went , / She saw bestrowed all with rich aray / Of pearles and pretious stones of great assay [...].
  • *1625 , Francis Bacon, The Praise of Knowledge :
  • *:The fixed stars overgo Saturn, and so in them and all the rest, all is but one motion, and the nearer the earth the slower – a motion also whereof air and water do participate, though much interrupted.
  • To go beyond; to exceed, surpass.
  • *1597 , William Shakespeare, Richard III , II.2:
  • *:O, what cause have I, / Thine being but a moiety of my grief, / To overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries!
  • *1992 , Domna C Stanton, Discourses of Sexuality , p. 177:
  • *:He seeks to persuade the queen not merely to emulate the Amazons' vigilant territoriality but to overgo them by emulating the Spaniards' rampant invasiveness.
  • To get the better of; to overcome, overpower.
  • *1594 , Christopher Marlowe, Dido, Queen of Carthage , Act I:
  • *:Both barking Scylla, and the sounding rocks, / The Cyclops' shelves, and grim Ceraunia's seat, / Have you o'ergone , and yet remain alive.
  • (obsolete) To overtake, go faster than.
  • *1598 , George Chapman, trans. Homer, Iliad , book VI:
  • *:If it chance, that we be overgone / By his more swiftness, urge him still to run upon our fleet, / And (lest he 'scape us to the town) still let thy javelin meet / With all his offers of retreat.
  • Etymology 2

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    Noun

    (overgoes)
  • (genetics) A sequence of overlapping oligonucleotides, used to design hybridization.
  • *1999 , Birren & Green, Genome Analysis , p. 207:
  • *:Mixtures of such specific "overgo " probes can be used to screen arrayed library filters by DNA-DNA hybridization [...].
  • *2004 , Detrich, Westerfield & Zon, The Zebrafish: Genetics, Genomics and Informatics , p. 318:
  • *:Hybridization of multiple overgoes produces many clones, perhaps 40 clones at a time.
  • Anagrams

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