Transverse is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TRANSVERSE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to cross, traverse
• To overturn; to change.
• To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
NOUN:
• Anything that is transverse or athwart.
• The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
ADJECTIVE:
• crossways
• situated or extending across something
• Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal.
• extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• acting, lying, or being across; set crosswise

Words related to TRANSVERSE

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Words that contain TRANSVERSE

transversed15 transverses14 transversely18 transverseness17

How to use TRANSVERSE in a sentence

• The hinge is without teeth, but furnished with a somewhat oval cavity, and mostly with lateral transverse grooves.
• The middle parts of the crosses were carried by slaves, as the transverse pieces were not to be fastened to them until just before the time of execution.
• Their progress at first was good, but as they neared the central portion of the water they were swept many yards downstream for one that they made in a transverse direction.
• The transverse positions are decided, to some extent, by the distance between the center lines of the engines.
• It was L-shaped, and the transverse piece was armed with polished stone.
• This transverse motion is at first prevented by the click, F, which falls into the teeth of the ratchet-wheel fixed behind the cone.
• The figures, besides being outlined by the dots, were decorated all over with the same pigment in dotted transverse belts.
• Taking the way the wires pointed, she went on hastily, with bent head, till she reached a wide transverse street with a brick building at the corner.
• Their transverse diameter is usually perceptibly increased and in many cases, there is an increase in the antero-posterior diameter.
• When complete, transverse fractures permit of separation of the parts of bone.
• The schooner protected by its lining of oak, was further strengthened by transverse beams, so as to offer the greatest possible resistance to the pressure of the ice.
• I then got five or six men with spades to dig transverse lines.
• I swung and found myself in a tiny transverse passage.
• There are fifteen main transverse girders to each shore span, with nine longitudinal girders between each pair.
• The rift-valley, though with a generally level floor, is divided by transverse ridges into a series of basins, each containing a lake without outlet.
• The new reservoir lies to the north of the old, and is separated from it by a transverse road.
• A system of transverse roads was adopted and carried out.
• The distance was about sixty feet from mouth to mouth, and back of this transverse passage a great vaulted chamber stretched far under the land.
• An Australian skull of a round form, or one the transverse diameter of which exceeds eight-tenths of its length, has never been seen.
• It was composed of three large dugout canoes placed parallel to one another at distances of about three feet, and lashed with sealskin thongs to stout transverse poles.
• Near each end, say five inches, a couple of transverse holes generally five-eighth of an inch in diameter are bored.

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