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traverse
has definitions from the field of transportation
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[ verb ] travel across or pass over
Synonyms cross get_over cover cut_across pass_over cut_through get_across track Examples "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day" Used in print (Walter H. Buchsbaum, "Advances in Medical Electronics"...)The travel time of sound in tissue is about 1500 meters per second thus it takes about 16 � msec. to traverse 25 mm. of tissue . (Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)Then we drove on , until there was no more road and we traversed dry rice fields , bouncing across their squat earth walls . (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)He has traversed provinces and kingdoms , but he has not consolidated them behind him , nor does he control them . |
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[ verb ] deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
Synonyms Used in print (U.S. Reports. Volume 364. Cases Adjudged in the...)Hence the petitioner had full opportunity to traverse the only conclusions of the Department on file with the Board . |
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[ verb ] to cover or extend over an area or time period
Examples "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres" "The novel spans three centuries" Used in print (Terence O'Donnell, "Evenings at the Bridge"...)These are traversed by another line of vaults , and thus rooms , arched on all four sides , are formed . |
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[ noun ] a horizontal beam that extends across something
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[ noun ] a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
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