travel.
To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
Meaning & usage
To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
John seems to spend as much time travelling as he does in the office.
Snakes do not travel well.
To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.
Soundwaves can travel through water.
The supposedly secret news of Mary's engagement travelled quickly through her group of friends.
To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
To travel throughout (a place).
I’ve travelled the world.
To force to journey.
To labour; to travail.
Where this word comes from
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.
The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
I like travel, but it’s always too tiring.
space travel
A series of journeys.
I’m off on my travels around France again.
An account of one's travels.
He released his travels in 1900, two years after returning from Africa.
The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
There was a lot of travel in the handle, because the tool was out of adjustment.
My drill press has a travel of only 1.5 inches.
Labour; parturition; travail.
Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed.
The keys have great travel.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English travail, travell, from Old French travail, travaille, travaillie, traval, travalle, traveaul, traveil, traveille, travel. Doublet of travail.
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