transambulate
transambulate verb: to walk through or across; to step over, especially to transit a threshold between one area and another.
Verb
transambulate (third-person singular simple present transambulates, present participle transambulating, simple past and past participle transambulated)
- To walk through or across; to step over, especially to transit a threshold between one area and another.
- This can have the effect of markedly reducing the flicker of the image for a given basic picture speed; that is to say, if a complete traversal of the scene is carried out in k partial scans or frames, each of which substantially transambulates the image-field […]1937, John Charles Wilson, Television engineering, page 100
- As with all subjects, try to read and research as widely as possible, so you don't become like an explorer who believes he understands a whole country because he has traveled down a river or transambulated a province.2014, Bernard Ewell, Artful Dodgers, page 166
Forms of transambulate
| third-person singular present | transambulates |
|---|---|
| present participle | transambulating |
| past participle | transambulated |
| past | transambulated |
Questions about transambulate
- What does transambulate mean?
- Transambulate means to walk through or across; to step over, especially to transit a threshold between one area and another.
- What part of speech is transambulate?
- Transambulate is a verb.
- What is the past tense of transambulate?
- The past tense of transambulate is transambulated.
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