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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Transverse \Trans*verse"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Transversed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Transversing}.] To overturn; to change. [R.] --C. Leslie.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Transverse \Trans*verse"\, verb (used with an object) [Pref. trans- + verse, noun Cf.{Transpose}.] To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose. [Obs.] --Duke of Buckingham.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Transverse \Trans*verse"\, adjective [L. transversus, p. p. of transvertere to turn on direct across; trans across + vertere to turn: cf. F. transverse. See {Verse}, and cf. {Traverse}.] Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to {longitudinal}.
{Transverse axis} (of an ellipse or hyperbola) (Geom.), that axis which passes through the foci.
{Transverse partition} (Bot.), a partition, as of a pericarp, at right angles with the valves, as in the siliques of mustard.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Transverse \Trans"verse\, noun
1. Anything that is transverse or athwart.
2. (Geom.) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
transverse
adjective: extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis; "cross members should be all steel"; "from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully"; "transversal vibrations"; "transverse colon" [syn: {cross(a)}, {transversal}, {thwartwise}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "transverse": across, across the grain, athwart, athwartships, bar, bend, bendwise, bias, biased, biaswise, catercorner, catercornered, contrariwise, contrawise, crisscross, cross, cross bitt, cross-grained, crossarm, crossbar, crosscut, crossed, crossing, crosspiece, crossway, crossways, crosswise, cruciate, cut across, decussate, diagonal, doubletree, intercross, intersect, kittycorner, lie across, oblique, oblique angle, oblique figure, oblique line, obliquely, overthwart, rhomboid, scratch comma, separatrix, sideways, sidewise, singletree, slant, slash, solidus, swingletree, thwart, thwartly, thwartways, transept, transom, transversal, transversely, traverse, virgule, whippletree
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