Traversing vs Traverse - What's the difference?
traversing | traverse |
A traversal.
* 2013 , John Likides, Foundations of Meaning (page 300)
(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
As verbs the difference between traversing and traverse
is that traversing is while traverse is to travel across, often under difficult conditions.As nouns the difference between traversing and traverse
is that traversing is a traversal while traverse is (climbing) a route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.As an adverb traverse is
athwart; across; crosswise.As an adjective traverse is
lying across; being in a direction across something else.traversing
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Some traversings last a few seconds or minutes, for instance, when the imagination passes swiftly across familiar eras and realms in its effort to generate the momentum necessary to perceive timeless realities.
traverse
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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