ford vs traverse

ford and traverse both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ford	Yes	No	Yes	No
traverse	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, traverse is a hypernym of ford; that is, traverse is a word with a broader meaning than ford:

Other hypernyms of ford include cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track.

ford (noun)	traverse (noun)
the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse	taking a zigzag path on skis
a shallow area in a stream that can be forded	travel across
	a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
	a horizontal beam that extends across something

ford (verb)	traverse (verb)
cross a river where it's shallow	deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
	travel across or pass over
	to cover or extend over an area or time period