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bob(10) (iou) and transverse(1) (iou)


bob(10) (iou)



bob verb3. Infl. -bb-. LME.
[Prob. same word as BOB verb2.]
verb intrans. Make a quick short movement up and down; rebound; Dance; curtsy; come or go in, into, up, etc., quickly or briefly. LME.
bob and weave make quick bodily movements up and down and from side to side (as a boxer evading punches, etc.). bob for try to catch (floating or hanging fruit) with the mouth, as a game.
verb trans. Move (a thing) up and down with a slight jerk. (Merging into BOB verb2 2.) L17.
verb trans. Move up and down quickly or briefly in (a curtsy). L19.
Comb.: bob-apple, bob-cherry a game in which the players bob for apples or cherries respectively; bob-fly Angling a dry fly that bobs on the water, to indicate the position of the tail-fly.

transverse(1) (iou)



transverse adjective, noun, & adverb. LME.
[Latin transversus pa. pple of transvertere TRANSVERT.]
A. adjective. Extending or proceeding in a crosswise direction; lying or running across; (also foll. by to). having a breadth greater than the length or height; spec. in Physics (of a vibration, wave, etc.) involving displacement at right angles to the direction of propagation. Opp. longitudinal. LME.
Special collocations: transverse alliteration a type of alliteration using two interwoven patterns, found esp. in early Germanic verse. transverse axis (a) an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis; (b) Math. = principal axis (a) s.v. PRINCIPAL adjective. transverse colon Anatomy that part of the colon which crosses the front of the abdomen from right to left below the stomach. transverse flute: having the mouthpiece in the side near one end. transverse Mercator a map projection obtained like the Mercator but such that the central horizontal line is a pair of meridians rather than the equator. transverse myelitis Medicine myelitis which extends across a section of the spinal cord. transverse process Anatomy a lateral process of a vertebra. transverse suture Anatomy the suture between the frontal and facial bones.
b. noun.
Crosswise direction or position. rare. LME.
A thing lying or extending crosswise; a crosspiece. LME.
C. adverb. In a transverse direction or position; across, crosswise. rare exc. poet. M17.
transversely adverb M16.
transverseness noun M19.