English-Thai Dictionary

traverse

ADJ ที่ กีดขวาง  ti-kid-kwang

 

traverse

N สิ่ง ที่ ขวาง  sing-ti-kid-kwang

 

traverse

VI เดิน ข้าม  doen-kam

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TRAVERSE

adv. Athwart; crosswise. The ridges of the field lay traverse.

 

TRAVERSE

prep. [supra. ] Through crosswise. He traverse
The whole battalion views their order due. [Little used. ]

 

TRAVERSE

a.[L. versus; transversus.] Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as paths cut with traverse trenches. Oak--may be trusted in traverse work for summers.

 

TRAVERSE

n.[supra. ] Any thing laid or built across. There is a traverse placed in the loft where she sitteth.
1. Something that thwarts, crosses or obstructs; a cross accident. He is satisfied he should have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not in his power.
2. In fortification, a trench with a little parapet for protecting men on the flank; also, a wall raised across a work.
3. In navigation, traverse-sailing is the mode of computing the place of a ship by reducing several short courses made by sudden shifts or turns, to one longer course.
4. In law, a denial of what the opposite party has advanced in any state of the pleadings. When the traverse or denial comes from the defendant, the issue is tendered in this manner, "and of this he puts himself on the country. " When the traverse lies on the plaintiff, he prays "this may be inquired of by the country. "
The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows.
5. A turning; a trick.

 

TRAVERSE

v.t.To cross; to lay in a cross direction. The parts should be often traversed or crossed by the flowing of the folds.
1. To cross by way of opposition; to thwart; to obstruct.
Frog thought to traverse this new project.
2. To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
What seas you travers'd, and what fields you fought.
3. To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles and properties of this detestable vice, ingratitude.
4. To turn and point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
5. To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
6. In law pleadings, to deny 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. So to traverse an indictment or an office, is to deny it.
To traverse a yard, in sailing, is to brace it aft.

 

TRAVERSE

v.i.In fencing, to use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction. To see thee fight, to see thee traverse--
1. To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel. The needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.
2. In the manege, to cut the tread crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.

 

TRAVERSE-BOARD

n.[traverse and board. ] In a ship, a small board to be hung in the steerage, and bored full of holes upon lines, showing the points of compass upon it. By moving a peg on this, the steersman keeps an account of the number of glasses a ship is steered on any point.

 

TRAVERSE-TABLE

n.[traverse and table. ] In navigation, a table of difference of latitude and departure.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TRAVERSE

Trav "erse, a. Etym: [OF. travers, L. transversus, p. p. of transvertere to turn or direct across. See Transverse, and cf. Travers. ]

 

Defn: Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Oak. .. being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton.The ridges of the fallow field traverse. Hayward. 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.

 

TRAVERSE

TRAVERSE Trav "erse, adv.

 

Defn: Athwart; across; crosswise.

 

TRAVERSE

Trav "erse, n. Etym: [F. traverse. See Traverse, a.]

 

1. Anything that traverses, or crosses. Specifically: -- (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. (b ) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like. Men drinken and the travers draw anon. Chaucer. And the entrance of the king, The first traverse was drawn. F. Beaumont. (c ) (Arch. )

 

Defn: A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building. Gwilt. (d ) (Fort. ) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work. (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.(f ) (Naut. ) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course. (g ) (Geom.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal. (h ) (Surv.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground. (i ) (Gun. ) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.

 

2. A turning; a trick; a subterfuge. [Obs. ] To work, or 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 1 . (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.

 

TRAVERSE

Trav "erse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Traversed; p. pr. & vb. n.Traversing. ] Etym: [Cf. F. traverser. See Traverse, a.]

 

1. To lay in a cross direction; to cross. The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds. Dryden.

 

2. To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught. I can not but. .. admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse. Sir W. Scott.

 

3. To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe. What seas you traversed, and what fields you fought. Pope.

 

4. To pass over and view; to survey carefully. My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice -- ingratitude. South.

 

5. (Gun. )

 

Defn: To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.

 

6. (Carp. )

 

Defn: To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.

 

7. (Law )

 

Defn: 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. 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. To traverse a yard (Naut. ), to brace it fore and aft.

 

TRAVERSE

TRAVERSE Trav "erse, v. i.

 

1. To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing. To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse. Shak.

 

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.

 

3. To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.

 

TRAVERSE DRILL

TRAVERSE DRILL Trav "erse drill. (Mach. )

 

Defn: 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.

 

TRAVERSER

TRAVERSER Trav "ers *er, n.

 

1. One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like.

 

2. (Law )

 

Defn: One who traverses, or denies.

 

3. (Railroad )

 

Defn: A traverse table. See under Traverse, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

traverse

trav erse |trəˈvərs trəˈvərs | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 travel across or through: he traversed the forest. • extend across or through: a moving catwalk that traversed a vast cavernous space. • [ no obj. ] cross a hill or mountain by means of a series of sideways movements from one practicable line of ascent or descent to another: I often use this route, eventually traversing around the cliff. • ski diagonally across (a slope ), with only a slight descent. • consider or discuss the whole extent of (a subject ): he would traverse a number of subjects and disciplines. 2 move (something ) back and forth or sideways: a probe is traversed along the tunnel. • turn (a large gun or other device on a pivot ) to face a different direction. 3 Law deny (an allegation ) in pleading. • archaic oppose or thwart (a plan ). ▶noun 1 an act of traversing something. • a hill or mountain where traversing is necessary: a narrow traverse made lethal by snow and ice. • a movement following a diagonal course made by a skier descending a slope. • a zigzag course followed by a ship because winds or currents prevent it from sailing directly toward its destination. 2 a part of a structure that extends or is fixed across something. • a gallery extending from side to side of a church or other building. 3 a mechanism enabling a large gun to be turned to face a different direction. • the sideways movement of a part in a machine. 4 a single line of survey, usually plotted from compass bearings and chained or paced distances between angular points. • a tract surveyed in this way. 5 Military a pair of right-angled bends incorporated in a trench to avoid enfilading fire. 6 variant spelling of travers. ▶adjective (of a curtain rod ) allowing the curtain to be opened and closed by sliding it along the rod. DERIVATIVES tra vers a ble adjective, tra vers al |-səl |noun, tra vers er noun ORIGIN Middle English ( sense 3 of the verb ): from Old French traverser, from late Latin traversare; the noun is from Old French travers (masculine ), traverse (feminine ), partly based on traverser .

 

Oxford Dictionary

traverse

traverse |ˈtravəs, trəˈvəːs | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 travel across or through: he traversed the forest. • extend across or through: a moving catwalk that traversed a vast cavernous space. • [ no obj., with adverbial of direction ] cross a rock face by means of a series of sideways movements from one practicable line of ascent or descent to another. • ski diagonally across (a slope ), losing only a little height. • consider the whole extent of (a subject ). 2 [ with obj. and adverbial of direction ] move back and forth or sideways: a probe is traversed along the tunnel. • turn (a large gun or other device on a pivot ) to face a different direction. 3 Law deny (an allegation ) in pleading. • archaic oppose or thwart (a plan ). ▶noun 1 an act of traversing something. • a rock face where traversing is necessary: a narrow traverse made lethal by snow and ice. • a movement following a diagonal course made by a skier descending a slope. • a zigzag course taken by a ship because winds or currents prevent it from sailing directly towards its destination. 2 a part of a structure that extends or is fixed across something. • a gallery extending from side to side of a church or other building. 3 a mechanism enabling a large gun to be turned to face a different direction. • [ mass noun ] the sideways movement of a part in a machine. 4 a single line of survey, usually plotted from compass bearings and chained or paced distances between angular points. • an area surveyed in this way. 5 Military a pair of right-angled bends incorporated in a trench to avoid enfilading fire. 6 variant spelling of travers. DERIVATIVES traversable adjective, traversal noun ORIGIN Middle English (in sense 3 of the verb ): from Old French traverser, from late Latin traversare; the noun is from Old French travers (masculine ), traverse (feminine ), partly based on traverser .

 

traverser

traverser |trəˈvəːsə | ▶noun a sideways-moving platform for transferring a railway vehicle from one set of rails to another parallel set.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

traverse

traverse verb 1 he traversed the deserts of Iran: travel over /across, cross, journey over /across, pass over; cover; ply; wander, roam, range. 2 a ditch traversed by a wooden bridge: cross, bridge, span; extend across, lie across, stretch across.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

traverse

traverse verb 1 he traversed the deserts of Persia and Baluchistan: travel over /across, cross, journey over /across, make one's way across, pass over, go across, negotiate; cover; ply; wander, roam, range. 2 a ditch traversed by a small wooden bridge: extend across, lie across, stretch across, go across, cross, cut across; bridge, span.

 

Duden Dictionary

Traverse

Tra ver se Substantiv, feminin , die |Trav e rse |französisch traverse, über das Vulgärlateinische zu lateinisch transversus, travers 1 Architektur, Technik Querbalken a , quer verlaufender Träger 2 Wasserbau (in größerer Zahl ) senkrecht zur Strömung in den Fluss gebaute Buhne, die eine Verlandung der eingeschlossenen Flächen beschleunigen soll 3 Technik quer verlaufendes Verbindungsstück zweier fester oder parallel beweglicher Maschinenteile 4 Fechten Bewegung seitwärts, mit der ein Fechter dem gegnerischen Angriff ausweicht 5 Bergsteigen Quergang

 

Traversensystem

Traversensystem Substantiv, Neutrum Technik , das

 

French Dictionary

traverse

traverse n. f. nom féminin 1 Pièce de bois, de métal qu ’on met en travers d ’une construction pour en assembler les éléments. : Les traverses d ’une fenêtre. 2 Chacune des poutres placées perpendiculairement à la voie, sous les rails, dont elle maintient l ’écartement. : Des traverses de chemin de fer (et non *dormants ) en mauvais état. 3 Lieu de passage d ’un fleuve, d ’une rivière, d ’un lac ou d ’un bras de mer où l ’on exploite un service de traversier (Recomm. off. ). : La traverse de Saint-Siméon. LOCUTION Chemin de traverse. Raccourci. FORME FAUTIVE traverse (de chemin de fer ). Anglicisme au sens de passage à niveau.

 

traversée

traversée n. f. nom féminin Action de traverser la mer, un cours d ’eau, un espace. : La traversée du lac Saint-Jean à la nage. La traversée de l ’Atlantique en solitaire. Une traversée aérienne mouvementée.

 

traverser

traverser v. tr. verbe transitif 1 Passer d ’un côté à l ’autre. : Traverser un lac à la nage. Il faut regarder à droite et à gauche avant de traverser une rue. 2 Passer par. : Cette idée m ’a traversé l ’esprit. Il traverse une mauvaise passe. aimer

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

traverse

trav erse /trəvə́ː r s / (! 動詞 と 名詞 で発音 強勢が異なるので注意 ) 〖trans (横切って )verse (回る )〗動詞 ～s /-ɪz /; ～d /-t /; -ersing 他動詞 ｟かたく ｠1 〈人などが 〉〈場所 〉を横切る, 越える, 渡る ; 〈橋 道路などが 〉〈川など 〉にかかる ▸ traverse a dangerous desert [the Atlantic ]危険な砂漠 [大西洋 ]を横断する 2 …をあちこち動く, 行ったり来たりする .3 〈斜面 〉をジグザグ登る [滑る ].4 …を詳しく読む [論じる ], 注意深く考察 [検討 ]する .5 〘法 〙〈告発 申し立てなど 〉を否認する .6 …を妨害する .7 〈砲口など 〉を旋回する .8 〘海 〙〈帆げた 〉を船尾へ向ける .自動詞 1 横切る, 越える, 横断する .2 前後 [左右 ]に動く .3 (斜面を )ジグザグに登る [滑る ].4 〈砲口 磁針などが 〉旋回する .名詞 /trǽvəː r s /C 1 横切ること, 横断 ; 横切っているもの, 横断物 ; 横断路 [場所 ]; 横木, 横材 .2 〘登山 〙トラバース, ジグザグ登り 〘岩壁などを左右に移動しながら登ること 〙; トラバースする場所, ジグザグの道 .3 〘海 〙(風上に向かう船の )ジグザグ航路 .4 〘法 〙否認 .5 〘軍 〙塹壕 （ざんごう ）の防御土塁; (城砦 （さい ）などの )横墻 （おうしよう ）.6 (教会などの )回廊, 階上席 .7 横断線 .8 〘測量 〙トラバース (線 ).9 障害, 邪魔 (物 ).10 (砲口などの )旋回 ; (旋盤などの )横への移動; (横への )移動装置 .形容詞 横切る, 横断している ; 横断の .trav é rs a ble 形容詞 trav é rs al /-(ə )l /名詞 trav é rs er 名詞