Definitionen
1.AdjectiveSituated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
2.AdjectiveMade at right angles to the long axis of the body.
3.AdjectiveNot tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
4.AdjectiveNot in direct line of descent; collateral.
5.NounAnything that is transverse or athwart, such as a road or a ship's web frame.
6.NounThe longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
7.VerbTo lie or run across; to cross.
8.VerbTo traverse or thwart.
9.VerbTo overturn.
10.VerbTo alter or transform.
11.VerbTo change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.