Traverse vs Straddle - What's the difference?
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(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 :
* F. Beaumont
Something that thwarts or obstructs.
A trick; a subterfuge.
(architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
(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.
To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
* Alexander Pope
(computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
(artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
(climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle.
To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
* Dryden
To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct.
* Sir Walter Scott
To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
* South
(carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
(legal) To deny formally.
* Dryden
Lying across; being in a direction across something else.
* Sir H. Wotton
* Hayward
To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something.
{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=2
, But guess my surprise, when I saw the lazy young rogue lie down on his back, and gently pull down Polly upon him, who giving way to his humour, straddled , and with her hands conducted her blind favourite to the right place}}
* 1853 , Nathaniel Hawthorne,
* 1978 , Jimmy Carter,
To form a disorderly sprawl.
(military) To fire successive artillery shots in front of and behind of a target, especially in order to determine its range.
(poker) To place a voluntary raise prior to receiving cards (only by the first player after the blinds).
To stand with the ends staggered; said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
a posture in which one straddles something
(finance) an investment strategy involving trade in derivatives
(poker) A voluntary raise made prior to receiving cards by the first player after the blinds.
As verbs the difference between traverse and straddle
is that traverse is while straddle is to sit or stand with a leg on each side of something.As a noun straddle is
a posture in which one straddles something.traverse
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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
- At the entrance of the king, / The first traverse was drawn.
- He would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
- (Gwilt)
Verb
- He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.
- what seas you traversed , and what fields you fought
- to traverse all nodes in a network
- to traverse a cannon
- The parts should be often traversed , or crossed, by the flowing of the folds.
- I cannot but admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse .
- My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice — ingratitude.
- to traverse a board
- And save the expense of long litigious laws, / Where suits are traversed , and so little won / That he who conquers is but last undone.
Adjective
(en adjective)- paths cut with traverse trenches
- Oak being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work.
- the ridges of the fallow field traverse
Derived terms
* traverse drillAnagrams
* ----straddle
English
Verb
- As they approached the entrance of the port, the giant straddled clear across it, with a foot firmly planted on each headland,
- The mountain-ringed Yukon Flats basin straddles the Arctic Circle and is bisected by the Yukon River.
