transverse vs two-way

transverse

adj
  • 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. 

  • (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. 

verb
  • To alter or transform. 

  • To lie or run across; to cross. 

  • To overturn. 

  • To traverse or thwart. 

noun
  • Anything that is transverse or athwart. 

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

two-way

adj
  • Moving or occurring in opposite directions. 

  • Involving the mutual action or participation of two parties. 

  • Playing both offense and defense in the same game. 

  • Having or involving exactly two variables; bivariate. 

  • Allowing traffic in two directions. 

  • Permitting communication in two directions, i.e. both transmitting and receiving. 

  • Utilising both Western and Indigenous knowledge systems; bothways. 

noun
  • A serving of Cincinnati chili with spaghetti. 

How often have the words transverse and two-way occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )