Travers

Travers

* Allan Travers
* Angela Travers, fictional character
* Ben Travers
* Bill Travers (1922–1994), English actor, screenwriter, director and animal rights activist
* Bill Travers (baseball) (born 1952), former Major League Baseball pitcher
* Cody Travers
* Dahlia Travers and her husband Tom Travers, fictional characters in P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories
* Fritz Travers, mayor of Wiesbaden from 1919 to 1929
* George Travers, English footballer and FA Cup winner with Barnsley F.C.
* George Travers (rugby player), Welsh international rugby union player
* Henry Travers
* James Travers
* Jerome Travers
* Joe Travers
* John Travers
* John Travers (composer)
* Kyle Travers
* Linden Travers
* Mary Travers (journalist)
* Mary Travers (singer) (born 1936), American singer; member of the folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary
* Mary Rose-Anna Travers (1894–1941), Canadian Québécois singer known as "La Bolduc"
* Mary Travers (journalist), television journalist; a.k.a. Mary Travers-Murphy
* Morris Travers
* P. L. Travers, Australian author best known for "Mary Poppins"
* Paddy Travers
* Pat Travers
* Peter Travers, American film critic
* Quentin Travers
* Sarah Travers
* Susan Travers, an English soldier and adventurer who served with the French Foreign Legion during the Second World War
* Tom Travers
* Walter Travers
* William Travers (politician) (1819–1903), New Zealand lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist
* William R. Travers (1819–1887) , American lawyer and investor

ee also

* Travers SAR antenna, part of the "Priroda" module of the Russian space station "Mir".
* Travers River in New Zealand
* Travers, Switzerland, a village in the canton of Neuchâtel, in the Val-de-Travers district
*The Travers Stakes, horse race held in Saratoga Springs, New York
* traverse
* Travers, another name for the movement Haunches-in
Travers (Obia Ghosts


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  • travers — [ travɛr ] n. m. • v. 1150; en traver « directement » 1080; lat. tra(ns)versus « transversal, oblique » I ♦ (En loc.) 1 ♦ EN TRAVERS : dans une position transversale par rapport à un axe de position ou de direction habituel. ⇒ transversalement.… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • travers — TRAVERS. s. m. L estenduë d un corps consideré selon sa largeur. Il s en faut deux travers de doigt, que ces deux planches ne joignent. Il sign. aussi, Le biais, l irregularité d une place, d un jardin, d un bastiment, d une chambre, &c. Il y a… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Travers — bezeichnet: Travers NE, Gemeinde im Val de Travers, Kanton Neuenburg/Neuchâtel, Schweiz Val de Travers Tal ebenda Val de Travers (Bezirk), Bezirk ebenda Travers River, Fluss auf der Südinsel Neuseelands in der Reitkunst eine bestimmte Bewegung… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • travers — Travers, Transuersus. Jetter au travers et faire passer de navire en autre les, etc. Traiicere de naue in nauem malos et antennas. Il s en va à travers les champs, Per via inuiaque proficiscitur, Liu. lib. 23. Par chemins esgarez et destournez.… …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • travers — travérs (direcţie care face un unghi de 90º cu axul navei, ţesătură în dungi) s. n., pl. travérse Trimis de siveco, 03.03.2007. Sursa: Dicţionar ortografic  TRAVÉRS s.n. 1. (mar.) Partea de jos şi de sus a coastei unei corăbii. ♦ Direcţie… …   Dicționar Român

  • Travers — Trav ers, adv. [F. travers, breadth, extent from side, [ a] travers, en travers, de travers, across, athwart. See {Traverse}, a.] Across; athwart. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The earl . . . caused . . . high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Travers — Rencontré surtout dans la Manche. Semble désigner celui qui habitait auprès d un travers (chemin de traverse au moyen âge) …   Noms de famille

  • travers — tràvers (travȅrs) m DEFINICIJA 1. meteor. umjereni do jaki, većinom mahoviti, ljeti vlažni i grmljavinama popraćeni vjetrovi zapadnih smjerova u središnjoj Francuskoj 2. term. poprečno prugasta tkanina ETIMOLOGIJA fr. traverse …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • Travers [1] — Travers (Valde T.), 1) malerisches Thal im Schweizercanton Neuenburg, wird von der Reuse durchströmt u. bildet den 2) Bezirk ebendaselbst mit 13,000 Ew., welche sich mit Uhrenfabrikation, Spitzenklöppeln, Verfertigung von Extrait d Absinthe,… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Travers [2] — Travers (Traversiren), Gangart des Pferdes, s.u. Reitkunst IV. A) c) …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Travers — (frz., spr. währ), Quere, in der Reitkunst ein Seitengang, bei dem das Pferd mit der Hinterhand einen kleinen Schritt in der Bahn steht, nach innen gestellt ist und mit den auswendigen Füßen über die inwendigen tritt; Gegensatz: Renvers (s.d.);… …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

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