travel
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.
Informal. to move with speed.
to pass, or be transmitted, as light or sound.
Basketball. (of a player in possession of the ball) to take more than two steps without dribbling or passing the ball.
to move in a fixed course, as a piece of mechanism.
to travel, journey, or pass through or over, as a country or road.
to journey or traverse (a specified distance): We traveled a hundred miles.
to cause to journey; ship: to travel logs downriver.
the act of traveling; journeying, especially to distant places: to travel to other planets.
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.
the coming and going of persons or conveyances along a way of passage; traffic: an increase in travel on state roads.
Basketball. an instance of traveling with the ball.
Machinery.
the complete movement of a moving part, especially a reciprocating part, in one direction, or the distance traversed; stroke.
length of stroke.
movement or passage in general: to reduce the travel of food from kitchen to table.
used or designed for use while traveling: a travel alarm clock.
Origin of travel
1usage note For travel
In American writing, when you have a one-syllable verb that ends with a single vowel followed by a single consonant, and you want to add a regular inflectional ending that begins with a vowel, you double that final consonant before adding -ed or -ing : stop, stopped, stopping; flag, flagged, flagging. This principle also holds for verbs of more than one syllable if the final syllable is stressed: permit, permitted, permitting; refer, referred, referring. If that syllable is not stressed, there is no doubling of the final consonant: gallop, galloped, galloping; travel, traveled, traveling.
British spelling conventions are similar. They deviate from American practices only when the verb ends with a single vowel followed by an l . In that case, no matter the stress pattern, the final l gets doubled. Thus British writing has repel, repelled, repelling (as would American writing, since the final syllable is stressed). But it also has travel, travelled, travelling and cancel, cancelled, cancelling, since in the context of British writing the verb’s final l, not its stress pattern, is the determining factor. Verbs ending in other consonants have the same doubling patterns that they would have in American writing. An outlier on both sides of the Atlantic is the small group of verbs ending in -ic and one lonely -ac verb. They require an added k before inflectional endings in order to retain the appropriate “hard” sound of the letter c : panic, panicked, panicking; frolic, frolicked, frolicking; shellac, shellacked, shellacking. Canadians, of course, are free to use either British or American spellings.
Other words from travel
- trav·el·a·ble, adjective
- non·trav·el·ing, adjective
- non·trav·el·ling, adjective
- outtravel, 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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How to use travel in a sentence
López said she could not travel to Mexico because she is undocumented.
Tijuana authorities criticized over handling of transgender woman’s murder | Michael K. Lavers | September 17, 2020 | Washington BladeSound waves traveling thousands of kilometers through the ocean may help scientists monitor climate change.
Underwater earthquakes’ sound waves reveal changes in ocean warming | Carolyn Gramling | September 17, 2020 | Science NewsBiden traveled to the state days later, meeting with the Blake family and calling for unity and healing in the community, though he, too, denounced the violence that followed the shooting.
Post-ABC Wisconsin poll shows Biden holding narrow edge over Trump | Dan Balz, Emily Guskin | September 16, 2020 | Washington PostTripActions says it has added nearly 500 new corporate customers since March, a surprising achievement at a time when most employees are still not traveling freely.
Are you ready to start traveling for work again? TripActions’ CEO is banking on it | Michal Lev-Ram, writer | September 15, 2020 | FortuneThe Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, which was first identified in China in December, has had sweeping effects in the public health, business, and travel sectors, among others.
How the coronavirus outbreak is roiling the film and entertainment industries | Alissa Wilkinson | September 11, 2020 | Vox
You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness | Marlow Stern | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTHe did travel to China and Australia while the story was unfolding.
Why Mexicans Are Enraged by Obama’s Big Tuesday Meeting | Ruben Navarrette Jr. | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIn doing so he exposed the failure of other airlines in the region to see the huge pent-up demand for cheap travel.
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501 | Clive Irving | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEAST“The tribe is really made of people who put travel as a priority in their entire lifestyle,” says Evita.
‘We Out Here’: Inside the New Black Travel Movement | Charlise Ferguson | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTBrands like Lo & Sons and Delsey are already tapping travel Noire to connect with black travelers.
‘We Out Here’: Inside the New Black Travel Movement | Charlise Ferguson | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTOne thing was certain: Grandfather Mole could travel much faster through the water than he could underground.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole | Arthur Scott BaileyThe mothers know better than any one else how hard a way the little girl will have to travel through life.
Our Little Korean Cousin | H. Lee M. PikeHe could lie in bed and string himself tales of travel and adventure while Harry was downstairs.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingUnder ordinary circumstances these men can travel with their burden from twenty to thirty miles a day.
Our Little Korean Cousin | H. Lee M. PikeThe rules regulating travel on highways in this country are called, "the law of the road."
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney Bolles
British Dictionary definitions for travel
/ (ˈtrævəl) /
to go, move, or journey from one place to another: he travels to improve his mind; she travelled across France
(tr) to go, move, or journey through or across (an area, region, etc): he travelled the country
to go, move, or cover a specified or unspecified distance
to go from place to place as a salesman: to travel in textiles
(esp of perishable goods) to withstand a journey
(of light, sound, etc) to be transmitted or move: the sound travelled for miles
to progress or advance
basketball to take an excessive number of steps while holding the ball
(of part of a mechanism) to move in a fixed predetermined path
informal to move rapidly: that car certainly travels
(often foll by with) informal to be in the company (of); associate
the act of travelling
(as modifier): a travel brochure Related adjective: itinerant
(usually plural) a tour or journey
the distance moved by a mechanical part, such as the stroke of a piston
movement or passage
Origin of travel
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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