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# traverse

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

«traverse» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (formal) To traverse a place is to travel across or through it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traverse/#m1)
2. (formal) To traverse can mean to go back and forth across something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traverse/#m2)
3. In climbing, a traverse is a route that goes sideways across a slope or cliff. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traverse/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traverse/#x1)
- It took three days to traverse the forest. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traverse/#x2)
- A bridge traverses the river. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traverse/#x3)
- Can you traverse this shape without lifting your pencil? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traverse/#x4)
- The climber made a slow traverse across the cliff. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traverse/#x5)
- The searchlight traversed the dark sky. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traverse/#x6)
- Ants traverse the garden path all day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traverse/#x7)
- They traversed 15 km each day for 4 days, so 60 km in total. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traverse/#x8)
- One shooting star after another traversed the sky. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traverse/#x9)

### Note

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

## In Jewish tradition

In the Psalm it means to walk through Jerusalem's palaces and look carefully. In Jeremiah it describes a restless young camel running about.

**Interpretation.** The psalm is read as an invitation to admire Zion and tell the next generation. Jeremiah's camel is read as Israel running after idols.

### Examples

- Mark ye well her ramparts, traverse her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following. (Writings PSA.48.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/traverse/#x1)
- See thy way in the Valley, know what thou hast done; thou art a swift young camel traversing her ways; (Prophets JER.2.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/traverse/#x2)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «traverse» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traverse/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«traverse» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/traverse.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «traverse» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/traverse/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«traverse» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/traverse.html) on Mova free.