Saturday, August 8, 2009

travel

trav⋅el

[trav-uh

Show IPA verb, -eled, -el⋅ing or (especially British

) -elled, -el⋅ling, noun, adjective

–verb (used without object)

1.	to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey: to travel for pleasure.

2.	to move or go from one place or point to another.

3.	to proceed or advance in any way.

4.	to go from place to place as a representative of a business firm.

5.	to associate or consort: He travels in a wealthy crowd.

6.	Informal. to move with speed.

7.	to pass, or be transmitted, as light or sound.

8.	Basketball. walk (def. 9).

9.	to move in a fixed course, as a piece of mechanism.

–verb (used with object)

10.	to travel, journey, or pass through or over, as a country or road.

11.	to journey or traverse (a specified distance): We traveled a hundred miles.

12.	to cause to journey; ship: to travel logs downriver.

–noun

the act of traveling; journeying, esp. to distant places: to travel to other planets.