traverse

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
2. 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. 3
   A screen or partition.
4. 4
   Something that thwarts or obstructs.
5. 5
   A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
6. 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. 7
   The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
8. 8
   A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
9. 9
   In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
10. 10
    A traverse board.

Verb

1. 1
   To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
2. 2
   To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
3. 3
   To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
4. 4
   To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
5. 5
   To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
6. 6
   To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
7. 7
   To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
8. 8
   To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
9. 9
   To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
10. 10
    To deny formally.
11. 11
    To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.

Adverb

1. 1
   athwart; across; crosswise

Adjective

1. 1
   Lying across; being in a direction across something else.

Proper noun

1. 1
   A surname from French.