crossbar vs transverse

crossbar

noun
  • Any transverse bar or piece, such as a bar across a door, or the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor. 

  • The top of the goal structure. 

  • The top tube of a bicycle frame. 

verb
  • To mark with a pattern of transverse bars. 

transverse

noun
  • Anything that is transverse or athwart. 

  • The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse. 

adj
  • (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting. 

  • Made at right angles to the long axis of the body. 

  • Situated 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. 

verb
  • To alter or transform. 

  • To lie or run across; to cross. 

  • To overturn. 

  • To traverse or thwart. 

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