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travelling

[trav-uhl]

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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

Travelling with children is no big deal, however many parents wring their hands over it.

If you are travelling to a conference, you might decide to stay at the conference hotel.

After all, the proposed test relies on a theory of how particles ought to behave if travelling faster than light.

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Travelling with children is no big deal, however many parents wring their hands over it.

If you are travelling to a conference, you might decide to stay at the conference hotel.

After all, the proposed test relies on a theory of how particles ought to behave if travelling faster than light.

Fish travelling through flood waters disperse seeds.

Kline created the simple travelling set and lighting.

Volunteers had to estimate which of the two was travelling faster.

Any intelligent life form will know that travelling to another biosphere will result in catastrophic and rapid evolution.

Light travelling down the fiber stays inside because it is reflected off the interface between the two layers.

They also get red shift because the photons loose energy due to travelling against gravity.

The same energy and matter travelling a shorter distance equals a faster completion of that distance.

We are all still travelling and the only absolute that belongs to man will come at the end.

Hudson, a travelling salesman in the employ of the firm.

The weight keeps travelling with the same momentum toward the wall.

Here is her essay, which is in eloquent praise of the merits of travelling slowly.

They don't understand travelling hundreds of miles/kilometres to live for a few days in the woods.

Photons travelling between different gravitational gradients change their energies, not speed.

The moon theme of the week continued with things to do on the way to the moon, in case you are travelling there soon.

He was travelling on business at the time of his death.

The anti-stain wipes are good too, especially if you are travelling with only one pair of trousers.

We were really pumped about travelling along on this voyage.

Here they emerge on another travelling platform, which conveys them to a waiting.

Lancaster slowly makes his way to his split-level home by travelling from house to house, and from swimming pool to swimming pool.

Depends on distance you are travelling and flight schedules, as well.

In the case of an uneven road surface that lining may be a novel way of generating electricity for vehicles travelling over.

Travelling with less weight means more energy saved.

She's travelling the country giving talks and teleseminars and radio and television interviews.

Travelling to see relatives overseas will rarely happen.

Shopping, travelling and real money proved far more tempting than idealism.

As he was away travelling when the car was ready to be delivered, he let me pick it.

It does have a detachable shoulder strap, which is useful when travelling if you have too many things to carry.

But more than three decades after his death, his art is travelling to the continent that so deeply affected his work.

Blue shift occurs when the light and the receiver are travelling in opposite directions so the energy transfer is greater.

Always submit to a major conference within easy travelling distance.

It seems that people do still enjoy travelling for work and remain fully aware of its benefits:.

Buy plane tickets or sort out accommodation if your travelling.

Travelling a mere five or six blocks can take an hour, especially when it rains.

More active sun= more photons travelling in our direction.

As for not travelling by car, so much the better: your hands are free.

It is driver-only travelling which should be discouraged in favour of car-sharing.

It's about a boy and his father travelling south after an apocalypse of some sort, but it's not really about that at all cbl.

Leave without new employment and you risk becoming a travelling adjunct with much lower pay and higher workload.

He is also travelling and won't be reachable for a few days.

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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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