(a.) Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
(adv.) Athwart; across; crosswise.
(a.) Anything that traverses, or crosses.
(a.) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
(a.) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
(a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
(a.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.
(a.) 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; that is, without this which follows.
(a.) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
(a.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
(a.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
(a.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
(a.) A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.
(a.) To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
(a.) To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.
(a.) To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
(a.) To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
(a.) To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
(a.) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
(a.) To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it.
(v. i.) To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.
(v. i.) To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel; as, the needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.
(v. i.) To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hence the major role of the 14-A arm of carboxybiotin is not to permit a large carboxyl migration but, rather to permit carboxybiotin to traverse the gap which occurs at the interface of three subunits and to insinuate itself between the CoA and keto acid sites.
(2) Additionally, several small vessels (rami pleurales pulmonales) originated from the esophageal branch (ramus esophagea) of the bronchoesophageal artery, traversed the pulmonary ligaments, and supplied the visceral pleura.
(3) The distance traversed by the blood before getting fully oxygenated is computed.
(4) A model for IL 2 proliferation was derived on the basis of the two-state model of the cell cycle, with cells leaving a quiescent state randomly and then traversing the other stages of the cell cycle in a determinate way.
(5) 17 alpha-estradiol (17 alpha-estradiol) or cholesterol on the number of footfaults made by female rats traversing a narrow suspended beam was investigated.
(6) The cdc2 and CDC28 gene products (lower-case letters represent genes of Schizosaccharomyces pombe, and capital letters genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae) are functionally homologous, suggesting that the processes involved in traverse of 'start' are highly conserved.
(7) After treatment of Chinese hamster cells (line CHO) with various protocols for synchrony induction, the subsequent ability of cells to traverse the cell cycle (i e., to perform, an essential cell cycle process) has been determined by measurement of the DNA distribution pattern among cells in large populations with the Los Alamos flow microfluorometer In the cultures prepared by the various synchronizing techniques the vast majority of cells traversed the cell cycle in a normal fashion; however, in all cultures examined there remained small subpopulations which, though remaining viable for several days, could not carry out normal traverse.
(8) As clinicians comprehend more fully the multifaceted areas of resistance to treatment, they will be able to help their eating-disordered patients traverse a therapeutic impasse.
(9) Circular dichroic studies and hydropathy profiling of the amino-acid sequence of this 'lac' permease suggest a secondary structure in which the polypeptide consists of 12 hydrophobic segments in alpha-helical conformation that traverse the membrane in zig-zag fashion connected by shorter, hydrophilic domains with most of the charged residues and many of the residues commonly found in beta-turns.
(10) The integrity of the talocalcaneal joint was maintained by two strong ligaments traversing the tarsal sinus between the two bones.
(11) Second, in addition to the major bolus of labeled material that traversed the cells at about 6 h, a smaller wave of radioactivity appeared to pass through the Golgi apparatus and secretory granules and reach the lumen earlier, within the first few hours after the injection.
(12) Use of the endoscopic Congo red test provides physiologic evidence that vagus secretory nerve fibers traverse the right and left gastroepiploic nerves, leading us to believe that the gastroepiploic nerves should be routinely divided during proximal gastric vagotomy.
(13) The enzyme is in the soluble portion of the cells and the steroids have to traverse the membrane in both directions.
(14) During intestinal absorption amino acids must traverse the lipid-rich epithelial cell membrane, possibly in a lipid-soluble form.
(15) • Chris Goode's Men in the Cities is at the Traverse until 24 August.
(16) These results demonstrate that the type VII collagen of human cutaneous anchoring fibrils and plaques is secreted by keratinocytes and can traverse the epidermal basal lamina and that the fibril formation can occur in the absence of cells of human dermal origin.
(17) Double-reciprocal plotting of Ca2+ traversal rates in cholesterol-containing liposomes vs. calcium concentration suggests that cholesterol inhibits Ca2+ traversal by competing with Ca2+ for PA.
(18) The blood-borne protein traversed the autonomic graft and infiltrated into the host brain for distances between 200 micron in intraparenchymal grafts to over 1 mm in intraventricular grafts; a smaller exudate was found in the intraparenchymal model than in the intraventricular site probably due to glial scarring that impeded the protein movement in the interstitial spaces.
(19) Other robots in the Boston Dynamics stable include Petman, a robot that tests humanoid chemical protective clothing; the wheeled SandFlea robot that can leap small buildings; a small six-legged robot capable of traversing rough terrain called RHex; and the RiSE robot capable of climbing vertical walls, trees and fences using feet with micro-claws.
(20) Peroxidase does not traverse the endothelium of intramural arteries and arterioles of controls over the 10-minute period of observation.
Trick
Definition:
(a.) An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.
(a.) A sly, dexterous, or ingenious procedure fitted to puzzle or amuse; as, a bear's tricks; a juggler's tricks.
(a.) Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank; as, the tricks of boys.
(a.) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as, a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning.
(a.) A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
(a.) The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players.
(a.) A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, -- usually two hours.
(a.) A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
(v. t.) To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.
(v. t.) To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; -- often followed by up, off, or out.
(v. t.) To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(2) Trousers were cropped or rolled at the ankle, a styling trick that is emerging as a trend across the shows.
(3) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
(4) That was the thing that told against us in the end and we have to be serious about that.” In defence of the Corbyn camp’s plans to renationalise privatised industries, John McDonnell MP, who is the candidate’s campaign agent, said that privatisation had been “a confidence trick”.
(5) The announcement from the Congressional Budget Office, a research body, that health reform would cost $940bn (£627bn), which was less than had been expected, appears to have done the trick.
(6) It’s not going to change whether I score a hat-trick or don’t score at all.
(7) I don’t think it’s indicative of lower fish stocks, they just learned a new trick,” Mardisk F Leopold, who led the research, told the Guardian.
(8) It was his second hat-trick in four games and he has now scored 10 times in seven.
(9) "In the wake of Julio Baptista's quad-trick, which player has scored the most goals against Liverpool in one game at Anfield?"
(10) Christian Benteke has been revitalised under Sherwood and he followed up his hat-trick in last Tuesday’s 3-3 draw with Queens Park Rangers by scoring the winner here.
(11) He had to watch her score a hat-trick and lift the trophy on television instead.
(12) "So when you figure out that trick, that becomes how you attack anything bad.
(13) Highlight: Mike Magee’s opening day hat-trick against the team he ended the season with.
(14) Celebrities from Justin Bieber to Spike Lee were on hand for the opening of a spectacle that mixes circus tricks with the music of the late King of Pop – a pairing that has already proved lucrative for Cirque on the road with the arena show, Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour .
(15) Gordon Brown and David Cameron put the question of substance at the heart of the political battle yesterday, as the Tory leader accused his rival of relying on "short-term tricks" in place of long-term solutions.
(16) So it’s comforting to note that Spectre seems to be offering a significant upgrade: the trailer shows Q introducing Bond to his new ultra-speedy Aston Martin DB10, and promising it boasts a “few tricks”.
(17) It is impossible to trick your mind into veering away from the enormity of what happened in this tiny country in the centre of Africa.
(18) In the second world war, countries had their own encryption tools but now we share networks and tools, and if you can undermine the random number generator - if you can make it less random - and that’s what the NSA was doing by trying to trick, buy or persuade companies to make their encryption more breakable,” said Gellman.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest China dismisses Trump call with Taiwan as ‘small trick’ However, Beijing’s public response has so far been measured, with the foreign ministry lodging a “solemn representation” with Washington and the foreign minister, Wang Yi, downplaying the development as “a petty move” by Taiwan.
(20) Take, for example, the "trick" of combining instrumental data and tree-ring evidence in a single graph to "hide the decline" in temperatures over recent decades that would be suggested by a naive interpretation of the tree-ring record.