traverse

«traverse» in Mova's school dictionary: to travel across or through it — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (traverse, traverses, traversed, traversing); noun (a traverse, traverses)

meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) To traverse a place is to travel across or through it. tree →

2) (formal) To traverse can mean to go back and forth across something. tree →

3) In climbing, a traverse is a route that goes sideways across a slope or cliff. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography texts, adventure stories and formal writing: "The explorers traversed the desert". In maths, going along every edge of a shape or network is traversing it. Everyday speech says "cross". Phrases: traverse a mountain, a traverse route.

examples

• The explorers traversed the icy plains. tree →
• It took three days to traverse the forest. tree →
• A bridge traverses the river. tree →
• Can you traverse this shape without lifting your pencil? tree →
• The climber made a slow traverse across the cliff. tree →
• The searchlight traversed the dark sky. tree →
• Ants traverse the garden path all day. tree →
• They traversed 15 km each day for 4 days, so 60 km in total. tree →
• One shooting star after another traversed the sky. tree →

note

Formal; everyday: cross, go across. Pronounced TRAV-erse (also tra-VERSE as a verb). Regular: traversed.

In the corpora

• See thy way in the Valley, know what thou hast done; thou art a swift young camel traversing her ways;
• Mark ye well her ramparts, traverse her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «traverse» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.