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
Separately, workers of state-owned companies traveling overseas were also allowed to take one of the two Sinopharm vaccines in June.
China has quietly vaccinated more than 100,000 people for Covid-19 before completing safety trials | Lili Pike | September 11, 2020 | VoxHe stated that most of those people were stopped by US officials at airports, and Nielsen agreed, adding that some are stopped even before they travel.
Instead, Hanage said, the neat curve turned out to reflect extreme lockdowns and stringent travel restrictions — things the United States was not prepared to choose for itself.
Coronavirus Models Were Always About More Than Flattening The Curve | Maggie Koerth (maggie.koerth-baker@fivethirtyeight.com) | September 10, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightYou may think that flatwater canoe trips are the car camping of backcountry travel options.
How (and Why) to Execute the Perfect Canoe Portage | Alex Hutchinson | September 9, 2020 | Outside OnlineNamely, the desire to travel and leave the confines of our homes after months of quarantine and self-isolation.
All Your Questions About Flying During the Pandemic Answered | Charli Penn | September 4, 2020 | Essence.com
Capaldi said the nature of the character—a time-travelling alien—meant his successor could take any form.
Doctor Who: It’s Time For a Black, Asian, or Woman Doctor | Nico Hines | December 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAhmed, released on bail, managed to avoid being in court for the verdict and is now “travelling” constantly to avoid re-arrest.
Al-Sisi’s Egypt Is Worse For Gays Than The Muslim Brotherhood | Bel Trew | June 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLeila is not the only one who finds joy in drinking an alcoholic beverage when travelling outside Iran.
Travelling to France, it now seems ludicrous that anyone could have opposed such a convenient route.
The site advises recruits to “improve your physical fitness” before travelling to Kiev.
I hate to be long at my toilette at any time; but to delay much in such a matter while travelling is folly.
To think,” said the younger Englishwoman to her sister, “of this wee mite travelling about in an open motor!
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeThe motherly woman received the babe instinctively and cast aside the travelling-rug in which he was enveloped.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeProgress: an old term for the travelling of the sovereign to different parts of his country.
Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan SwiftIt is a great thing for the musical education of the country to have such an organization travelling every winter.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy Fay
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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