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Is traverse a Scrabble word?

Yes, traverse is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 11 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of traverse?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.

2. (surveying) A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.Examples: "At the entrance of the king, the first traverse was drawn, and the lower descent of the mountain discovered, which was the pendant of a hill to life, with divers boscages and grovets upon the steep or hanging grounds thereof."

3. (obsolete) A screen or partition.Examples: "Than sholde ye see there pressynge in a pace / Of one and other that wolde this lady see, / Whiche sat behynde a traves of sylke fyne, / Of golde of tessew the fynest that myghte be […]"; "At the entrance of the king, / The first traverse was drawn."obsolete

4. (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.

5. (law) 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", i.e. without what follows).

6. (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.Examples: "He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side."; "What seas you travers'd, and what fields you fought! / Your country's peace how oft, how dearly bought!"; "Here the line is joined by the Colne Valley branch, and both tracks are carried into Haverhill station upon a high embankment from which the town can be seen on the south side. The twin tracks, after traversing a scissors crossover, become the down and up roads through the station, which possesses an extensive goods yard."transitive

2. (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.Examples: "to traverse all nodes in a network"transitive

3. (weaponry) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.Examples: "to traverse a cannon"

4. (climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).

5. (engineering, skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.Examples: "the road traversed the face of the ridge as the right-of-way climbed the mountain"; "The last run, weary, I traversed the descents in no hurry to reach the lodge."

6. (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.Examples: "to traverse a board"

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "traverse"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "traverse"?

Scrabble
11 points
T1
R1
A1
V4
E1
R1
S1
E1
Words With Friends
12 points
T1
R1
A1
V4
E1
R1
S1
E1

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