Traversing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TRAVERSING in dictionary:

VERB:
• travel across or through
• extend across or through
• cross a rock face by means of a series of sideways movements from one practicable line of ascent or descent to another
• ski diagonally across (a slope), losing only a little height
• consider the whole extent of (a subject)
• move back and forth or sideways
• turn (a large gun or other device on a pivot) to face a different direction.
• deny (an allegation) in pleading
• oppose or thwart (a plan).
NOUN:
• the act of traversing
• an act of traversing something
• a rock face where traversing is necessary
• a movement following a diagonal course made by a skier descending a slope
• a zigzag course taken by a ship because winds or currents prevent it from sailing directly towards its destination.
• a part of a structure that extends or is fixed across something
• a gallery extending from side to side of a church or other building.
• a mechanism enabling a large gun to be turned to face a different direction
• the sideways movement of a part in a machine.
• a single line of survey, usually plotted from compass bearings and measured distances between successive points.
• an area of land surveyed with a traverse.
• a pair of right-angled bends incorporated in a trench to avoid enfilading fire
ADJECTIVE:
• Adjustable laterally; having a lateral motion, or a swinging motion; adapted for giving lateral motion.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to pass across or through

Words related to TRAVERSING

traverse11 traversed13 traverses12 traversings15

Words that contain TRAVERSING

traversings15

How to use TRAVERSING in a sentence

• The men were in high spirits notwithstanding the difficulties we had to encounter in traversing a route wellnigh impassable from the recent rains, and ankle-deep in mud.
• And she saw herself traversing the three quarters of Plassans, saluted by every one, bearing herself as proudly as a queen, mourning nobly for the fallen Empire.
• The Swedish Bishop Magnus writes in 1533 of the way in which the Norwegians used Skis for traversing country when hunting.
• After traversing several cross streets they turned into Oakwood Avenue and walked along the finest part of it for about half a mile.
• Presently they reached Ludgate, but instead of proceeding to Wood-street, the carriage turned off on the right, and traversing Thames-street, crossed London Bridge.
• We were fifteen days in traversing the lake, being my fifth trip through this inland sea.
• He advanced as planned, traversing the territory of the Colchians and their neighbors, using persuasion in some quarters and inspiring fear in others.
• The same thing is true of Turkey, into which meanwhile Russian forces, traversing the Caucasus, have driven a dangerous wedge through Armenia towards Mesopotamia.
• They were now traversing the mosaic floors of the hall that led to the lower terraces.
• We found ourselves on the floor above, in a corridor traversing the house from back to front.
• We sometimes meet carts loaded with old tin kettles and worn-out iron coal-scuttles traversing our streets.
• This place was utterly unlike the country we had been traversing.
• There was no later remembrance of traversing that last hundred yards.
• They communicated, through long windows, with the veranda in front, and by means of doors with the passage, or hall, traversing the house from end to end.
• The figure that she pursued entered the door of the house, and passed into the corridor traversing the wing.
• The grief of Oswald was, then, redoubled in traversing Germany in order to repair to Italy.
• I saw him when traversing our country, then great, rich, and free.
• Then, traversing several fields, we came to a halt and waited.
• As they went, one of the chief Simeroons took the admiral apart from the road they were traversing, and led him to the foot of a lofty tree.
• After committing great disorder, and traversing almost every street of that immense capital, they retired into a house, which they were resolute to defend to the last extremity.
• It was in a much worse condition than when they went in, and they were until dark traversing the seven miles.
• For the first time in history an army under the American standard, and with all the bravery of glittering guns and floating flags, was traversing those ancient plains.
• For a long time after this, Captain Nemo continued to live thus, traversing every sea.
• Now this appearance could only have been produced by a deviation of the solar rays in traversing the atmosphere of the moon.
• Down she came, unattended, through aisles bordered by fragrant blossoms, traversing the way from door to postern-gate with quick, light steps.
• On traversing this elevated country it presents a different aspect from what is seen either from a distance or where it is entered from the rivers.
• A faint creaking attested that it was, indeed, a footfall traversing the room to and fro, steadily.
• We may at least fairly treat them at starting simply as beacon-hills to mark out the country we are traversing.
• Within two hours, a hundred persons were traversing the hills in all directions, even at a distance which it seemed most unlikely that poor Lucy could have reached.
• After traversing the country for more than twenty miles, they arrived at the north shore of Botany Bay, without having met with one of the natives.
• They mounted a heavy flight of stairs, and, traversing an arched gallery, were ushered into the principal hall.
• He knew what alleys to take, what short cuts to make by traversing gardens, what ways were most like to be deserted.

Similar words containing TRAVERS without suffix ing

traverse11 traversal12 traversed13 traverser12 traverses12 traversals13 traversers13 traversable16 traversings15 untraversed15 extraversion22 extraversive25 extraversions23 untraversable18 intraversable18 extraversively30

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