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trav·el
[trav-uh
l] 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.
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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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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”)
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), 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.
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travel (ˈtrævəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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 ( |
| —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 | |
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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 from the web
In point sources the nutrient waste travels directly from source to water.
The normal fog produced by the sea travels inland, but suddenly meets an area of hot air.
It is completely migratory, and travels south in winter as far as subsaharan africa.
This is similar to a train that, while moving, travels at a constant velocity.
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