Synonyms for transverse
| Grammar : Adj, verb |
| Spell : trans-vurs, tranz-; trans-vurs, tranz- |
| Phonetic Transcription : trænsˈvɜrs, trænz-; ˈtræns vɜrs, ˈtrænz- |
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Définition of transverse
Origin :- "lying across," early 15c. (earlier transversary, c.1400), from Latin transversus "turned or directed across," past participle of transvertere "turn across," from trans- "across" (see trans-) + vertere "to turn" (see versus). The verb transvert is recorded from late 14c.
- adj crosswise
- adj across
- verb travel across
- In some quartz-mill sluices there are transverse riffle-bars.
- Extract from : « Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining » by John S. Hittell
- The spores soon separate by a transverse partition and fall off.
- Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
- “Yes, they did,” said the shepherd, looking aloft at the transverse stone.
- Extract from : « Lavengro » by George Borrow
- They develop with a transverse fissure into which the bark ingrows.
- Extract from : « Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 » by Various
- But at last they built a transverse section that promised to hold.
- Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day
- The transverse ribs are there, of course, but in a modified form.
- Extract from : « All Afloat » by William Wood
- The whole system has, in fact, been changed from the transverse to the longitudinal.
- Extract from : « All Afloat » by William Wood
- For niello, and printing, a transverse cut was substituted for the blow.
- Extract from : « Ariadne Florentina » by John Ruskin
- The commonest forms of wound were the transverse or the oblique.
- Extract from : « Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 » by George Henry Makins
- It consists of a number of transverse wires, broken at the middle.
- Extract from : « The Earliest Arithmetics in English » by Anonymous
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