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Traverse vs Travail - What's the difference?

traverse | travail |

As verbs the difference between traverse and travail

is that traverse is while travail is to toil.

As a noun travail is

(archaic) arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.

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.

    • Related terms

    * traversal

    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

    * ----

    travail

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (archaic) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
  • * Hooker
    • As everything of price, so this doth require travail .
  • *, II.20:
  • *:Travell and pleasure, most unlike in nature, are notwithstanding followed together by a kind of I wot not what natural conjunction.
  • * 1936 , (Djuna Barnes), Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 38:
    • He had thought of making a destiny for himself, through laborious and untiring travail .
  • Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
  • (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
  • (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.

    • References

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To toil.
  • * Latimer
    • slothful persons which will not travail for their livings
  • To go through the labor of childbirth.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John XIV:
    • A woman when she traveyleth hath sorowe, be cause her houre is come: but as sone as she is delivered off her chylde she remembreth no moare her anguysshe, for ioye that a man is borne in to the worlde.