travel
to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey: to travel for pleasure.
to move or go from one place or point to another.
to proceed or advance in any way.
to go from place to place as a representative of a business firm.
to associate or consort: He travels in a wealthy crowd.
Informal. to move with speed.
to pass, or be transmitted, as light or sound.
Basketball. (of a player in possession of the ball) to take more than two steps without dribbling or passing the ball.
to move in a fixed course, as a piece of mechanism.
to travel, journey, or pass through or over, as a country or road.
to journey or traverse (a specified distance): We traveled a hundred miles.
to cause to journey; ship: to travel logs downriver.
the act of traveling; journeying, especially to distant places: to travel to other planets.
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.
the coming and going of persons or conveyances along a way of passage; traffic: an increase in travel on state roads.
Basketball. an instance of traveling with the ball.
Machinery.
the complete movement of a moving part, especially a reciprocating part, in one direction, or the distance traversed; stroke.
length of stroke.
movement or passage in general: to reduce the travel of food from kitchen to table.
used or designed for use while traveling: a travel alarm clock.
Origin of travel
1usage note For travel
In American writing, when you have a one-syllable verb that ends with a single vowel followed by a single consonant, and you want to add a regular inflectional ending that begins with a vowel, you double that final consonant before adding -ed or -ing : stop, stopped, stopping; flag, flagged, flagging. This principle also holds for verbs of more than one syllable if the final syllable is stressed: permit, permitted, permitting; refer, referred, referring. If that syllable is not stressed, there is no doubling of the final consonant: gallop, galloped, galloping; travel, traveled, traveling.
British spelling conventions are similar. They deviate from American practices only when the verb ends with a single vowel followed by an l . In that case, no matter the stress pattern, the final l gets doubled. Thus British writing has repel, repelled, repelling (as would American writing, since the final syllable is stressed). But it also has travel, travelled, travelling and cancel, cancelled, cancelling, since in the context of British writing the verb’s final l, not its stress pattern, is the determining factor. Verbs ending in other consonants have the same doubling patterns that they would have in American writing. An outlier on both sides of the Atlantic is the small group of verbs ending in -ic and one lonely -ac verb. They require an added k before inflectional endings in order to retain the appropriate “hard” sound of the letter c : panic, panicked, panicking; frolic, frolicked, frolicking; shellac, shellacked, shellacking. Canadians, of course, are free to use either British or American spellings.
Other words from travel
- trav·el·a·ble, adjective
- non·trav·el·ing, adjective
- non·trav·el·ling, adjective
- outtravel, verb (used with object), out·trav·eled, out·trav·el·ing or (especially British) out·trav·elled, out·trav·el·ling.
- pre·trav·el, noun, verb, pre·trav·eled, pre·trav·el·ing or (especially British) pre·trav·elled, pre·trav·el·ling.
- un·trav·el·ing, adjective
- un·trav·el·ling, adjective
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How to use travel in a sentence
I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness | Marlow Stern | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTWhile traveling this holiday season, a relative and I were pulled over by a police officer.
The wives have been traveling for years across the globe to bring attention to the case.
Of Cuban Spies, a Baby, and a Filmmaker: The Strange Tale of the Cuban Five | Nina Strochlic | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe traveling show arrived in Shreveport at 7:30 in the morning after an all-night drive.
How Martin Luther King Jr. Influenced Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ | Peter Guralnick | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOn Wednesday, U.S. warplanes targeted a car he was traveling in on the eastern side of the city.
Iraqi Kurds Get Their Groove Back, End Siege of Mount Sinjar | Jamie Dettmer | December 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
We had half a dozen passengers to Ferrara; for the rest of the way, I had this extensive traveling establishment to myself.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyTraveling is useful in that it gives us a more vivid idea of the immense amount of knowledge we yet lack.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyIn a trial in the King's Bench, Mr. Erskine, counsel for the defendant, was charged by his opponent with traveling out of his way.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | VariousAunt Susan, who went over this year, says the traveling there is just as rough as it was before the war.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret PenroseAn attorney traveling with his clerk to the circuit, the latter asked his master what was the chief point in a lawsuit.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | Various
British Dictionary definitions for travel
/ (ˈtrævəl) /
to go, move, or journey from one place to another: he travels to improve his mind; she travelled across France
(tr) to go, move, or journey through or across (an area, region, etc): he travelled the country
to go, move, or cover a specified or unspecified distance
to go from place to place as a salesman: to travel in textiles
(esp of perishable goods) to withstand a journey
(of light, sound, etc) to be transmitted or move: the sound travelled for miles
to progress or advance
basketball to take an excessive number of steps while holding the ball
(of part of a mechanism) to move in a fixed predetermined path
informal to move rapidly: that car certainly travels
(often foll by with) informal to be in the company (of); associate
the act of travelling
(as modifier): a travel brochure Related adjective: itinerant
(usually plural) a tour or journey
the distance moved by a mechanical part, such as the stroke of a piston
movement or passage
Origin of travel
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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