traverse

• amble
• constitutional
• course
• cover
• crisscross
• cross
• excursion
• expedition
• follow
• go
• hike
• jaunt
• junket
• march
• navigate
• outing
• parade
• paseo
• perambulate
• perambulation
• peregrinate
• peregrination
• pilgrimage
• progress
• promenade
• ramble
• range
• ride
• run
• safari
• sally
• sashay
• saunter
• spin
• stroll
• tour
• track
• traipse
• tramp
• transit
• travel
• traversal
• tread
• trek
• trip
• turn
• walk
• walkabout
• wander

• noun
  1. A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
  2. 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.
  3. A screen or partition.
  4. Something that thwarts or obstructs.
  5. A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
  6. 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).
  7. The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
  8. A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
  9. In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
  10. A traverse board.
• verb
  1. To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
  2. To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
  3. To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
  4. (artillery) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
  5. , To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
  6. To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
  7. To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
  8. To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
  9. To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
  10. To deny formally.
  11. To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
• adjective
  1. Lying across; being in a direction across something else.
• adverb
  1. Athwart; across; crosswise.

• The hikers planned to traverse the mountain range in three days.
• We must traverse the river before sunset to reach the campsite.
• Engineers built a bridge to traverse the deep canyon.
• The expedition will traverse dangerous terrain in search of rare plants.
• She managed to traverse the crowded streets quickly to catch her train.

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quarterback

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