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verb (used without object)

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.

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Informal. to move with speed.

to pass, or be transmitted, as light or sound.

Basketball. walk (def. 9).

to move in a fixed course, as a piece of mechanism.

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verb (used with object)

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.

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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.

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English (north and Scots), orig. the same word as travail (by shift “to toil, labor” > “to make a laborious journey”)

Related forms

trav·el·a·ble, adjective

non·trav·el·ing, adjective

non·trav·el·ling, adjective

out·trav·el, verb (used with object), -eled, -el·ing or (especially British

) -elled, -el·ling.

pre·trav·el, noun, verb, -eled, -el·ing or (especially British

) -elled, -el·ling.

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un·trav·el·ing, adjective

un·trav·el·ling, adjective

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Example Sentences

We asked readers to submit essays about why they travel.

One of the perks of academia is the opportunity for occasional travel to conferences, archives, or field-work.

We will never travel the speed of light or even half the speed of light or one thousandths the speed of light.

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We asked readers to submit essays about why they travel.

One of the perks of academia is the opportunity for occasional travel to conferences, archives, or field-work.

We will never travel the speed of light or even half the speed of light or one thousandths the speed of light.

Cooler temperatures, striking colors, smaller crowds-Autumn is the perfect time to travel.

From their size, bacteria don't look the the sort of organisms to travel far.

Without questions, air travel delays are out of control.

We asked readers to submit their best travel photos and share the back story.

To apply for one of the free tickets you'll have to explain your travel plans and what you expect to get out of the visit.

See how you measure up against others, and how changes at home or in travel choices could do tons to protect the atmosphere.

Surfing currents allows crocodiles to travel long distances.

The researchers also considered whether their model allows time travel.

Air travel is often nasty, brutish, long and unprofitable.

Nitrogen is thus denser than helium and sound waves travel through it more slowly than they do in helium.

Successful desert travel often calls for caching of water beforehand.

The only way to travel greener might be to bicycle or walk-but the trip is long enough as it is.

First, light doesn't need a medium to travel though, in a sense it is its own medium.

To make it travel more efficiently, researchers blasted a short burst of sound at an electron trapped in an energy well.

Because the distance and the component of gravity decrease by the same factor, the travel time ends up being the same.

Typically, a low-energy neutrino will travel through many light-years of normal matter before interacting with anything.

Suspended animation might save lives or permit long-distance space travel.

We already folded time and space successfully and travel through it daily.

If you travel in space, you also travel in time bec spacetime is inseparable.

And they always travel at the speed of light for the medium through which they travel.

As international travel has become more common the problem has only gotten worse.

Migratory birds travel vast distances as they move between their summer and winter homes.

The problems included expensive hookups and low travel range.

In the book one finds also a good explanation why time travel is impossible.

They rely on scraps of food from the daily commuters who travel the public transportation system.

In this season's travel books, writers still take you to.

For the travel business worldwide, already reeling from an.

Resources and links for travel professionals, travelers and residents of tourist.

But seriously, time travel is more than mere fantasy, as.

I've never gone for the philosophy that says travel is about self-discovery.

Make up for the mess of air travel with a totally fly, entertaining, and lightweight travel kit.

But keeping travel plans organized can be difficult.

The second tip is useful even for those of us who don't travel to warzones.

Urban travel is slow and inefficient, in part because drivers act in self-interested ways.

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But a new look suggests time travel may be possible after all, at.

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They can be a good deal, but it depends on where you want to travel.

Discriminatory travel taxes are those imposed specifically on travel services above and beyond general sales taxes.

It's a purpose-made travel organizer rather than a take-everywhere bag, but this specialization.

We have to often travel with the whole family to conferences and other work related visits.

She had a long commitment to learning through travel.

Researchers make pulses that travel faster than light--sort of.

Sometimes you can only travel in certain states/provinces.

Researchers are working on ways for fuel-cell vehicles to hold the hydrogen gas they need for long-distance travel.

During the fall you would travel extensively to high schools within the geographic area from which the college is recruiting.

Negotiate either funds to travel outside to do your book purchases or ensure that your salary takes this into account.

Covers time travel into the future in special and general relativity and a variety of hypothetical mechanisms.

Proliferating out of control, the cells spawn malignant growths that can travel throughout the human body, spreading the disease.

Physicists have replicated the finding that the subatomic particles called neutrinos seem to travel faster than light.

How such a ball would travel when kicked is entirely different issue, of course.

And there is a literature of pie-cutting theory, in which cuts begin at the center and travel radially outward.

New approaches to space sail technology could give a much-needed push to interplanetary, and even interstellar, travel.

The network would travel with the vehicles as they progress across rough.

No spot on the planet is too remote for the movement that has changed the face of leisure travel.

The situation can be likened to air travel without air traffic control:.

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World English Dictionary

travel (ˈtræv^əl)

—vb , (US) -els, -elling, -elled, -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.	(tr) 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.	informal (often foll by with) to be in the company (of); associate

—n
12.	a. the act of travelling
	b. (as modifier): a travel brochure Related: itinerant
13.	(usually plural) a tour or journey
14.	the distance moved by a mechanical part, such as the stroke of a piston
15.	movement or passage

Related: itinerant

[C14 travaillen to make a journey, from Old French travaillier to travail]

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Word Origin & History

travel

late 14c., "to journey," from travailen (1300) "to make a journey," originally "to toil, labor" (see travail). The semantic development may have been via the notion of "go on a difficult journey," but it may also reflect the difficulty of going anywhere in the Middle Ages.

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Replaced O.E. faran. Travels "accounts of journeys" is recorded from 1590s. Traveled "experienced in travel" is from early 15c. Traveling salesman is attested from 1885.

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