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Travel

//ˈtɹævəl// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of traveling; passage from place to place. countable, uncountable

    "I like travel, but it’s always too tiring."

  2. 2
    self-propelled movement wordnet
  3. 3
    A series of journeys. countable, in-plural, uncountable

    "I’m off on my travels around France again."

  4. 4
    the act of going from one place to another wordnet
  5. 5
    An account of one's travels. countable, in-plural, uncountable

    "He released his travels in 1900, two years after returning from Africa."

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  1. 6
    a movement through space that changes the location of something wordnet
  2. 7
    The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke. countable, uncountable

    "There was a lot of travel in the handle, because the tool was out of adjustment."

  4. 9
    Labour; parturition; travail. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "Hard Labour is when more vehement Pains and dangerous Symptomes happen to Women in Travel, and continue a longer time."

  5. 10
    Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed. countable, uncountable

    "The keys have great travel."

Verb
  1. 1
    To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another. intransitive

    "John seems to spend as much time travelling as he does in the office."

  2. 2
    change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically wordnet
  3. 3
    To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit. intransitive

    "(ballistics)"

  4. 4
    undergo transportation as in a vehicle wordnet
  5. 5
    To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball. intransitive
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  1. 6
    make a trip for pleasure wordnet
  2. 7
    To travel throughout (a place). transitive

    "I’ve travelled the world."

  3. 8
    undertake a journey or trip wordnet
  4. 9
    To force to journey. transitive

    "They shall not be travailed forth of their own franchises."

  5. 10
    travel upon or across wordnet
  6. 11
    To labour; to travail. obsolete

    "Necessity will make men fare hard, and work hard, and travel hard, go bare, and suffer much; yea it will even cut off a leg or arm to save their lives;"

  7. 12
    travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

PIE word *tréyes From Middle English travelen (“to make a laborious journey, travel”) from Middle Scots travailen (“to toil, work, travel”), alteration of Middle English travaillen (“to toil, work”), from Old French travailler (“to trouble, suffer, be worn out”). See the doublets travail and travois. Compare typologically routine << Latin rupta via. Note the inverse semantic vectors: travel moves from a subjective state (toil) to an objective action (journey), while routine moves from an objective object (beaten path) to a subjective pattern (habit). Largely displaced native fare, from Old English faran (“to go [a long distance], to travel”). More at fare.

Etymology 2

From Middle English travail, travell, from Old French travail, travaille, travaillie, traval, travalle, traveaul, traveil, traveille, travel. Doublet of travail.

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