traverse vs ford

traverse and ford both are nouns.

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

As verbs, ford is a hyponym of traverse; that is, ford is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than traverse:

Other hyponyms of traverse include tramp, walk, crisscross, bridge, jaywalk, drive, take, course, hop.

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

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