traverse
suomi-englanti sanakirjatraverse englannista suomeksi
poikkipalkki
ylitys
poikkipuu
leikata, halkoa
kulkea läpi
evätä
pujottelu, slalom
traverse englanniksi
A route used in mountaineering, specifically climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
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.
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{{quote-text|en|year=1499|author=John Skelton|title=The Bowge of Court
{{quote-text|en|year=1613|author=Francis Beaumont|title=The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn
Something that thwarts or obstructs.
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A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.1838, John Henry Parker, ''A Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture''
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).
The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
{{quote-text|en|year=1994|author=Stephen R. Wise|title=Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863|page=160
A board.
{{quote-text|en|year=1789|author=Olaudah Equiano|title=The Interesting Narrative|volume=I|chapter=7
To travel across, to through, to through, particularly under difficult conditions.
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To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
(RQ:Du Fresnoy Dryden Painting)
To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
(RQ:Walpole Castle of Otranto)
(RQ:Scott Ivanhoe) admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse.
To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
1675, (w), ''Of the odious Sin of Ingratitude'' (A Sermon preached at Christ-Church, Oxon, October 17, 1675)
- My purpose is to (..) traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice—ingratitude.
(RQ:Dryden Miscellaneous Works)
To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
Lying across; being in a direction across something else.
''paths cut with traverse trenches''
(RQ:Wotton Elements of Architecture) being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work.
(RQ:Hayward Edward 6)
(quote-book)|section=act I, scene I|text=Qu'on voit naître souvent de pareilles traverses / En des esprits divers des passions diverses / Et qu'à nos yeux Camille agit bien autrement !|t=Indeed, how one sees the same hurdles engender / Diverse passions in diverse spirits / And how, before our eyes, Camille acts so differently!
(quote-book)|chapter=II|text=Or il y a, de Tostes aux Bertaux, six bonnes lieues de traverse, en passant par Longueville et Saint-Victor.|t=Now, it is a good six leagues from Tostes to Bertaux, taking the shortcut through Longueville and Saint-Victor.
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(monikko) it|traversa