Travel
['træv(ə)l] or ['trævl]
Definition
(noun.) the act of going from one place to another; 'he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel'.
(verb.) change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; '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 night fell'; 'news travelled fast'.
(verb.) undergo transportation as in a vehicle; 'We travelled North on Rte. 508'.
(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.
Editor: Nita--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Walk, go on foot.[2]. Journey, ramble, rove, roam, take a journey, take a trip, make a tour, make an excursion.[3]. Pass, go, move, make progress.
v. a. Pass, go over, journey over.
n. [1]. Journeying, travelling.[2]. Journey, tour, excursion, trip, expedition.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Journey, wandering, migration, rustication, pilgrimage, excursion, tramp,expedition, trip, ramble, voyage, tour, peregrination
ANT:Best, settlement, domestication
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Definition
v.i. to walk: to journey: to pass: to move.—v.t. to pass: to journey over:—pr.p. trav′elling; pa.t. and pa.p. trav′elled.—n. act of passing from place to place: journey: labour: (pl.) an account of a journey.—p.adj. Trav′elled having made journeys: knowing.—ns. Trav′eller one who travels: a wayfarer: one who travels for a mercantile house: a ring that slides along a rope or spar; Trav′eller's-joy the virgin's-bower Clematis Vitalba; Trav′eller's-tale a story that cannot be accepted a tall story an astounding lie a whopper; Trav′eller's-tree a remarkable Madagascar tree its stem resembling a plantain but sending out leaves only on two opposite sides like a great expanded fan.—adj. Trav′elling.—ns. Trav′elling-bag a bag for carrying necessaries on a journey toilet articles &c.; Trav′elling-carr′iage a heavy carriage fitted up for travelling in before railways; Trav′elling-cou′vert a set of table utensils arranged to pack up easily for travelling; Trav′elling-crane a crane fixed on a carriage which may be moved on rails; Trav′elling-dress a plain and easy dress to wear when travelling.—p.adjs. Trav′el-soiled -stained showing the marks of travel; Trav′el-taint′ed (Shak.) fatigued with travel harassed.
Editor: Omar
Examples
- One charm of travel dies here. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Travel of projectile in bore, 62. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Being dressed, I went down; not travel-worn and exhausted, but tidy and refreshed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Means for quarter sawing in both directions of log travel are shown in patent to Gray, No. 550,825, December 3, 1895. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Our dear Willoughby is now some miles from Barton, Elinor, said she, as she sat down to work, and with how heavy a heart does he travel? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- He's too big to travel bodkin between you and me. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- As there was no limit to the distance that electricity would travel there seemed no reason why these dots and dashes, or sparks and spaces, should not be sent all around the world. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But in reality travelling interested her even less than he had expected. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- There is no question of my travelling with this. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The rapidity with which he insisted on travelling, bred several disputes between him and the party whom he had hired to attend him as a guard. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In 1854 there were 111 millions of passengers conveyed on railways, each passenger travelling an average of 12 miles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- You are travelling several laps ahead of me, my friend, I interrupted. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He could not think of moving till his baggage was cleared, or of travelling until he could do so with his chillum. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You have money, and can buy the means of travelling to the seacoast as quickly as the journey can be made. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Probably he had to look after her camels or help in her trading operations; and he is said to have travelled with caravans to the Yemen and to Syria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- My wife, said Defarge aloud, addressing Madame Defarge: I have travelled certain leagues with this good mender of roads, called Jacques. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I enjoyed that day, though we travelled slowly, though it was cold, though it rained. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In the middle of the day he sat under a large tree in front of the house facing a well-travelled road. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Before it had set in dark on the night of his condemnation, he had travelled thus far on his last way. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I have been seeing a great deal of the German artists here: I travelled from Frankfort with one of them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The hoof is split and although it might not get worse soon if shod properly, she could break down if she travels over much hard ground. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Miss Fanshawe's travels, gaieties, and flirtations agreed with her mightily; she had become quite plump, her cheeks looked as round as apples. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The speed with which sounds travels through the air, or its velocity, was first measured by noting the interval (54. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Of course you have heard of it, for no kind of news travels so fast--among one's friends especially. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- While the disturbance which travels out from a sounding body is commonly called a wave, it is by no means like the type of wave best known to us, namely, the water wave. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- These travels of Marco Polo were only the beginning of a very considerable intercourse. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In his travels, and in his accompanying readings, he had come to the conclusion that the essential secret of life was harmony. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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