The difference between Pass over and Traverse
When used as verbs, pass over means to bypass (something), whereas traverse means to travel across, often under difficult conditions.
Traverse is also noun with the meaning: a route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
Traverse is also adverb with the meaning: athwart.
Traverse is also adjective with the meaning: lying across.
check bellow for the other definitions of Pass over and Traverse
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Pass over as a verb (transitive):
To bypass (something); to skip (something).
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Pass over as a verb (transitive):
To make a transit of; to pass through or across (something).
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Pass over as a verb (transitive):
To fly over (something).
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Pass over as a verb (transitive):
To overlook; not to note or resent.
Examples:
"to pass over an affront"
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Pass over as a verb (intransitive, euphemistic):
To die and thus progress to the afterlife.
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Traverse as a noun (climbing):
A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
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Traverse as a noun (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.
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Traverse as a noun (obsolete):
A screen or partition.
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Traverse as a noun:
Something that thwarts or obstructs.
Examples:
"He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control."
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Traverse as a noun (architecture):
A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
Examples:
"rfquotek Gwilt"
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Traverse as a noun (legal):
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).
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Traverse as a noun (nautical):
The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
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Traverse as a noun (geometry):
A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
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Traverse as a noun (military):
In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
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Traverse as a verb (transitive):
To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
Examples:
"He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side."
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Traverse as a verb (transitive, computing):
To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
Examples:
"to traverse all nodes in a network"
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Traverse as a verb:
To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
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Traverse as a verb (artillery):
To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
Examples:
"to traverse a cannon"
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Traverse as a verb (climbing):
, To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
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Traverse as a verb (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."
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Traverse as a verb:
To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct.
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Traverse as a verb:
To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
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Traverse as a verb (carpentry):
To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
Examples:
"to traverse a board"
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Traverse as a verb (legal):
To deny formally.
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Traverse as an adverb:
athwart; across; crosswise
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Traverse as an adjective:
Lying across; being in a direction across something else.
Examples:
"paths cut with traverse trenches"