Definitions
1.nounAnything that is transverse or athwart.
2.nounThe longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
3.verbTo overturn; to change.
4.verbTo change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
5.adjectiveSituated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
6.adjective(of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.