[syn: traverse, deny]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Traverse \Trav"erse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Traversed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Traversing.] [Cf. F. traverser. See Traverse, a.]
1. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
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The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by
the flowing of the folds. --Dryden.
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2. To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles;
to obstruct; to bring to naught.
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I can not but . . . admit the force of this
reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse. --Sir W.
Scott.
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3. To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the
habitable globe.
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What seas you traversed, and what fields you fought.
--Pope.
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4. To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
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My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles,
and properties of this detestable vice --
ingratitude. --South.
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5. (Gun.) To turn to the one side or the other, in order to
point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
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6. (Carp.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the
wood; as, to traverse a board.
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7. (Law) To deny formally, as what the opposite party has
alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new
matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the
other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an
office is to deny it.
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And save the expense of long litigious laws,
Where suits are traversed, and so little won
That he who conquers is but last undone. --Dryden.
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To traverse a yard (Naut.), to brace it fore and aft.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Traverse \Trav"erse\, v. i.
1. To use the posture or motions of opposition or
counteraction, as in fencing.
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To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee
traverse. --Shak.
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2. To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel; as, the
needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse
well, it is an unsafe guide.
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3. To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his
croup to one side and his head to the other.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Traverse \Trav"erse\, adv.
Athwart; across; crosswise.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Traverse \Trav"erse\, n. [F. traverse. See Traverse, a.]
1. Anything that traverses, or crosses. Specifically:
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(a) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross
accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been
for unlucky traverses not under his control.
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(b) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or
the like.
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Men drinken and the travers draw anon.
--Chaucer.
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And the entrance of the king,
The first traverse was drawn. --F. Beaumont.
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(c) (Arch.) A gallery or loft of communication from side
to side of a church or other large building. --Gwilt.
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(d) (Fort.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or
reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.
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(e) (Law) 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; that is, without this which
follows.
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(f) (Naut.) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in
passing from one place to another; a compound course.
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(g) (Geom.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a
transversal.
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(h) (Surv.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
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(i) (Gun.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in
any desired direction.
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2. A turning; a trick; a subterfuge. [Obs.]
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To work a traverse or To solve a traverse (Naut.), to
reduce a series of courses or distances to an equivalent
single one; to calculate the resultant of a traverse.
Traverse board (Naut.), a small board hung in the steerage,
having the points of the compass marked on it, and for
each point as many holes as there are half hours in a
watch. It is used for recording the courses made by the
ship in each half hour, by putting a peg in the
corresponding hole.
Traverse jury (Law), a jury that tries cases; a petit jury.
Traverse sailing (Naut.), a sailing by compound courses;
the method or process of finding the resulting course and
distance from a series of different shorter courses and
distances actually passed over by a ship.
Traverse table.
(a) (Naut. & Surv.) A table by means of which the
difference of latitude and departure corresponding to
any given course and distance may be found by
inspection. It contains the lengths of the two sides
of a right-angled triangle, usually for every quarter
of a degree of angle, and for lengths of the
hypothenuse, from 1 to 100.
(b) (Railroad) A platform with one or more tracks, and
arranged to move laterally on wheels, for shifting
cars, etc., from one line of track to another.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Traverse \Trav"erse\, a. [OF. travers, L. transversus, p. p. of
transvertere to turn or direct across. See Transverse, and
cf. Travers.]
Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as,
paths cut with traverse trenches.
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Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better
trusted in cross and traverse work. --Sir H.
Wotton.
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The ridges of the fallow field traverse. --Hayward.
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Traverse drill (Mach.), a machine tool for drilling slots,
in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and
forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle
holder can be adjusted laterally.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
traverse
n 1: a horizontal beam that extends across something [syn:
trave, traverse, crossbeam, crosspiece]
2: a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door
from a window over it [syn: transom, traverse]
3: taking a zigzag path on skis [syn: traversal, traverse]
4: travel across [syn: traversal, traverse]
v 1: travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100
miles each day" [syn: traverse, track, cover,
cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut
through, cut across]
2: to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers
traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres";
"The novel spans three centuries" [syn: cross, traverse,
span, sweep]
3: deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party)
in a legal suit [syn: traverse, deny]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
166 Moby Thesaurus words for "traverse":
across, across the grain, athwart, athwartships, bar,
be at cross-purposes, be contrary to, belie, boat, bridge, buck,
call into question, canoe, carry sail, challenge, check,
circumnavigate, coast, combat, conflict with, consider,
contemplate, contest, contradict, contrariwise, contravene,
contrawise, controvert, counter, counteract, countervail,
counterwork, course, cover, crisscross, cross, cross bitt,
cross-grained, crossarm, crossbar, crosscut, crossing, crosspiece,
crossway, crossways, crosswise, cruciate, cruise, cut across,
decussate, deny, disaffirm, dismiss, dispute, do, doubletree, duel,
examine, fight, gainsay, go across, go against, go by ship,
go on shipboard, go over, go to sea, hurdle, impediment, impugn,
inspect, intercross, intersect, investigate, join the opposition,
lie across, look at, look into, look over, make a passage, measure,
motorboat, navigate, negate, negative, not abide, oblique,
obliquely, observe, obstruct, obstruction, oppose, oppugn,
overpass, overthwart, pace, pass over, pass through, patrol,
perambulate, peregrinate, pererrate, play at cross-purposes, ply,
protest, quarter, range, range over, rebut, reconnoiter, reject,
repel, resist, review, roam, row, rub, run, run against,
run counter to, sail, sail round, sail the sea, scan, scour,
scour the country, scout, scrutinize, scull, seafare, sideways,
sidewise, singletree, snag, squash, squelch, steam, steamboat,
study, stumbling block, survey, sweep, swingletree, take a voyage,
take issue with, thwart, thwartly, thwartways, tour, track, tramp,
transept, transit, transom, transversal, transverse, transversely,
travel over, travel through, tread, vote against, voyage, walk,
wander, whippletree, withstand, yacht
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
traversal
in-order traversal
post-order traversal
pre-order traversal
traverse
Processing nodes in a graph one at a time, usually
in some specified order. Traversal of a tree is recursively
defined to mean visiting the root node and traversing its
children. Visiting a node usually involves transforming it in
some way or collecting data from it.
In "pre-order traversal", a node is visited __before__ its
children. In "post-order" traversal, a node is visited
__after__ its children. The more rarely used "in-order"
traversal is generally applicable only to binary trees, and is
where you visit first a node's left child, then the node
itself, and then its right child.
For the binary tree:
T
/ \
I S
/ \
D E
A pre-order traversal visits the nodes in the order T I D E S.
A post-order traversal visits them in the order D E I S T. An
in-order traversal visits them in the order D I E T S.
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Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
TRAVERSE, crim. law practice. This is a technical term, which means to
turnover: it is applied to an issue taken upon an indictment for a
misdemeanor, and means nothing more than turning over or putting off the
trial to a following sessions or assize; it has, perhaps with more
propriety, been applied to the denying or taking issue upon an indictment,
without reference to the delay of trial. Dick. Sess. 151; Burn's Just. h.t.;
4 Bl. Com. 351.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
TRAVERSE, pleading. This term, from the French traverser, signifies to deny
or controvert anything which is alleged in the declaration, plea,
replication or other pleadings; Lawes' Civ. Plead. 116, 117 there is no real
distinction between traverses and denials, they are the same in substance.
Willes. R. 224. however, a traverse, in the strict technical meaning, and
more ordinary acceptation of the term, signifies a direct denial in formal
words, "without this that," &c. Summary of Pleadings, 75; 1 Chit. Pl. 576,
n. a.
2. All issues are traverses, although all traverses cannot be said to
be issues, and the difference is this; issues are where one or more facts
are affirmed on one side, and directly and merely denied on the other; but
special traverses are where the matter asserted by one party is not directly
and merely denied or put in issue. by the other, but he alleges some new
matter or distinction inconsistent with what is previously stated, and then
distinctly excludes the previous statement of his adversary. The new matter
so alleged is called the inducement to the traverse, and the exclusion of
the previous statement, the traverse itself. Lawes' Civ. Pl. 117. See, in
general, 20 Vin. Abr. 339; Com. Dig. Pleader, G; Bac. Abr. Pleas, H; Yelv.
R. 147, 8; 1 Saund. 22, n. 2; Gould. on Pl. ell. 7 Bouv. Inst. Index, n. t.
3. A traverse upon a traverse is one growing out of the same point, or
subject matter, as is embraced in a preceding traverse on the other side.
Gould on Pl. ch. 7, Sec. 42, n. It is a general rule, that a traverse, well
tendered on one side, must be accepted on the other. And hence it follows,
as a general rule, that there cannot be a traverse upon a traverse, if the,
first traverse is material. The meaning of the rule is, that when one party
has tendered a material traverse, the other cannot leave it and tender
another of his own to the same point upon the inducement of the first
traverse, but must join in that first tendered; otherwise the parties might
alternately tender traverses to each other, in unlimited succession, without
coming to an issue. Gould on Pl. ch. 7, Sec. 42.
4. In cases where the first traverse is immaterial, there may be a
traverse upon a traverse. Id. ch. 7, Sec. 43. And where the plaintiff might
be ousted of some right or liberty the law allows him, there may be a
traverse upon a traverse, although the first traverse include what is
material. Poph. 101; Mo. 350; Com. Dig. Pleader, G 18; Bac. Abr. Pleas, H 4;
Hob. 104, marg.; Cro. Eliz. 99, 418; Gould on Pl. ch. 7, 44.
5. Traverses may be divided into general traverses, (q.v.) and special
traverses. (q.v.) There is a third kind called a common traverse. (q.v.)
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000):
Traverse -- U.S. County in Minnesota
Population (2000): 4134
Housing Units (2000): 2199
Land area (2000): 574.087951 sq. miles (1486.880905 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 11.870252 sq. miles (30.743811 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 585.958203 sq. miles (1517.624716 sq. km)
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 45.766649 N, 96.500058 W
Headwords:
Traverse
Traverse, MN
Traverse County
Traverse County, MN