Difference between Traverse and Sweep

What is the difference between Traverse and Sweep?

Traverse as a verb is to travel across, often under difficult conditions. while Sweep as a verb is to clean (a floor, etc) using a broom or brush.

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: You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Sweep

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To clean (a floor, etc) using a broom or brush.To move through an (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.To search (a place) methodically.To play a sweep shot.To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.To move something in a particular motion, as a broom

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The person who steers a dragon boat.A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.A chimney sweep.A search (typically for bugs [electronic listening devices]).A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.

Example sentence: Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

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

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