Travel
verb (used without object), traveled, traveling or (especially British) travelled, travelling.
1.
to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey:
to travel for pleasure.
2.
to move or go from one place or point to another.
3.
to proceed or advance in any way.
4.
to go from place to place as a representative of a business firm.
5.
to associate or consort:
He travels in a wealthy crowd.
6.
Informal. to move with speed.
7.
to pass, or be transmitted, as light or sound.
8.
Basketball. walk (def 9).
9.
to move in a fixed course, as a piece of mechanism.
verb (used with object), traveled, traveling or (especially British) travelled, travelling.
10.
to travel, journey, or pass through or over, as a country or road.
11.
to journey or traverse (a specified distance):
We traveled a hundred miles.
12.
to cause to journey; ship:
to travel logs downriver.
noun
13.
the act of traveling; journeying, especially to distant places:
to travel to other planets.
14.
travels.
journeys; wanderings:
to set out on one’s travels.
journeys as the subject of a written account or literary work:
a book of travels.
such an account or work.
15.
the coming and going of persons or conveyances along a way of passage; traffic:
an increase in travel on state roads.
16.
Machinery.
the complete movement of a moving part, especially a reciprocating part, in one direction, or the distance traversed; stroke.
length of stroke.
17.
movement or passage in general:
to reduce the travel of food from kitchen to table.
adjective
18.
used or designed for use while traveling:
a travel alarm clock.
verb (mainly intransitive) -els, -elling, -elled (US) -els, -eling, -eled
1.
to go, move, or journey from one place to another: he travels to improve his mind, she travelled across France
2.
(transitive) to go, move, or journey through or across (an area, region, etc): he travelled the country
3.
to go, move, or cover a specified or unspecified distance
4.
to go from place to place as a salesman: to travel in textiles
5.
(esp of perishable goods) to withstand a journey
6.
(of light, sound, etc) to be transmitted or move: the sound travelled for miles
7.
to progress or advance
8.
(basketball) to take an excessive number of steps while holding the ball
9.
(of part of a mechanism) to move in a fixed predetermined path
10.
(informal) to move rapidly: that car certainly travels
11.
(often foll by with) (informal) to be in the company (of); associate
noun
12.
the act of travelling
(as modifier): a travel brochure, related adjective itinerant
13.
(usually pl) a tour or journey
14.
the distance moved by a mechanical part, such as the stroke of a piston
15.
movement or passage
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