travel has definitions from the field of transportation
1
[ verb ] change location; move, travel, or proceed

Synonyms

go move locomote

Examples

"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"

Used in print

(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)

It is not through space nor time that the time_machine most approved by science_fiction must travel for a visit to the permanent prehistoric past , or the ever existent past fantasy future .

(Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)

After it has reached terminal_velocity , the time for the tape to travel a known distance is recorded .

(LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)

The smaller the particle the further it will travel downwind before settling out .

In the first trial an inert substance was disseminated from a boat travelling some ten miles off shore under appropriately selected meteorological_conditions .

Four_hundred and fifty pounds was disseminated while the ship was traveling a distance of 156 miles .

2
[ verb ] undertake a journey or trip

Synonyms

journey

Used in print

(Guideposts BR-E01. Mr. America, 4:6 (November, 1961)...)

Throughout these exciting years I have been fortunate for , although I have never offered great financial inducements , talent has found its way to me : William_Boal who so ably organizes business operations ; John_Beach who guides circulation ; Irving_Granville and Nelson_Rector who travel widely calling_on business_firms .

(Julia Newman, "Travel and Camera USA"...)

Wisconsin_Dells , where fantastically scenic rocks carved by the Wisconsin_River are overgrown with fern and other foliage , rates a stopover when traveling from Chicago .

(Ann Carnahan, Nick Manero's Cook-out Barbeque...)

If you travel over the vast U._S._A. you will , no_doubt , discover that feeding is an expensive business .

(Modern Maturity, 4:6...)

Travel , if you can .

3
[ noun ] (transportation) the act of going from one place to another

Examples

"he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel"

Used in print

(The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)

The respective vocabularies `` essential for travel '' are available in separate albums .

4
[ verb ] make a trip for pleasure

Synonyms

jaunt trip

Used in print

(The Atlanta Constitution...)

Why not have them travel the state in November debating ?

(Life BR-C16. Saturday Review, 44:15 (April 15, 1961)...)

More_and_more boats move overland on wheels ( 1.8 million trailers are now in_use ) and Midwesterners taking long weekends can travel south with their craft .

(Guideposts BR-E01. Mr. America, 4:6 (November, 1961)...)

There are people who travel long distances to assure my continued existence .

5
[ verb ] (transportation) travel upon or across

Synonyms

journey

Examples

"travel the oceans"

Used in print

(John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)

The route which he had traveled and which he believed might develop_into a trade_route was followed by his settlers earlier than he might have expected .

(Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)

To find_out , we traveled throughout that part of Laos still nominally controlled , in the daytime at_least , by the Royal_Lao_Army : from Attopeu , the City of Buffalo Dung in the southeast , to Muong_Sing , the City of Lions in the northwest , close to Communist_China ( map , page 250 ) .

6
[ verb ] (transportation) undergo transportation as in a vehicle

Examples

"We travelled North on Rte. 508"

Used in print

(John R. Sargent, "Where To Aim Your Planning for Bigger...)

Despite generally good levels of income , we see greater price pressures than ever before - traveling back along the chain from consumer to distributor to manufacturer .

Related terms

ride fly hop change_of_location

7
[ noun ] a movement through space that changes the location of something

Used in print

(L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)

By means of charts showing wave travel times and depths in the ocean at various locations , it is possible to estimate the rate of approach and probable time_of_arrival at Hawaii of a tsunami getting under_way at any spot in the Pacific .

8
[ verb ] travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge

Synonyms

move_around

Related terms

itinerate

9
[ noun ] self-propelled movement

Synonyms

locomotion

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