travel

[TravĀ·el]

To travel is the act of going from one place to another, usually a considerable distance. Your daily commute in the morning doesn't generally count as travel. Your trip to Timbuktu? That counts.

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To labor; to travail.

Noun
self-propelled movement

Noun
the act of going from one place to another; "he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel"

Noun
a movement through space that changes the location of something

Verb
change location; move, travel, or proceed; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before ni

Verb
undergo transportation as in a vehicle; "We travelled North on Rte. 508"

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Verb
make a trip for pleasure

Verb
undertake a journey or trip

Verb
travel upon or across; "travel the oceans"

Verb
travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge


v. i.
To labor; to travail.

v. i.
To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.

v. i.
To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.

v. i.
To pass; to go; to move.

v. t.
To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent.

v. t.
To force to journey.

n.
The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.

n.
An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; -- often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.

n.
The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve.

n.
Labor; parturition; travail.


Travel

Trav"el , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Traveled or Travelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Traveling or Travelling.] [Properly, to labor, and the same word as travail.] 1. To labor; to travail. [Obsoles.] Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California. 4. To pass; to go; to move.
Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

Travel

Trav"el , v. t. 1. To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent. "I travel this profound." Milton. 2. To force to journey. [R.]
They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises.

Travel

Trav"el, n. 1. The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.
With long travel I am stiff and weary.
His travels ended at his country seat.
2. pl. An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; -- often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy. 3. (Mach.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve. 4. Labor; parturition; travail. [Obs.]

To labor; to travail.

To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent.

The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.

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Usage Examples

After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get that whole experience of being out of the bubble that I was in from high school in Vancouver, to be able to travel around and be on your own was an amazing experience.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

All of my friends are animal people. To me, cats are people, too. Animals are people, too. I travel a lot and when I go overseas, it's really hard on me because the animals are treated much differently, especially in developing countries.

A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.

A lot of people say that comedy doesn't travel well. I found it very accessible.

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