trav·el

[trav-uhl] verb, trav·eled, trav·el·ing or ( especially British ) trav·elled, trav·el·ling, noun, adjective
verb (used without object)
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)
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.
a.
journeys; wanderings: to set out on one's travels.
b.
journeys as the subject of a written account or literary work: a book of travels.
c.
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.
a.
the complete movement of a moving part, especially a reciprocating part, in one direction, or the distance traversed; stroke.
b.
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”)

trav·el·a·ble, adjective
non·trav·el·ing, adjective
non·trav·el·ling, adjective
out·trav·el, 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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travel (ˈtrævəl) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
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.
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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Example sentences
And remember that there are two beams travelling in opposite direction.
The monsoon seems to be weakening, travelling less far inland and dumping its
  rainfall on the coasts.
Let us imagine ourselves transferred to our old friend the railway carriage,
  which is travelling at a uniform rate.
They did it by apparently travelling faster than the speed of light.
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