Difference between Trave and Traverse

What is the difference between Trave and Traverse?

Trave as a noun is a crossbeam while Traverse as a noun is a route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.

Trave

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A crossbeam A section formed by crossbeams

Traverse

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To travel across, often under difficult conditions.To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly; as, to traverse all nodes in a network.To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.In fortification, a mass of earth or other material employed to protect troops against enfilade. It is constructed at right angles to the parapet.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.

Example sentence: When X-rays traverse matter of any kind, this matter becomes a source of a radiation similar in character to that of the primary radiation falling upon it.

We hope you now know whether to use Trave or Traverse in your sentence.

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