travel

verb

1. (intransitive)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.”

   “I still travel to work by bus.”

   “He that feareth oblatration must not travel.”

   “Then, when Moses had fulfilled the term, and was travelling with his housefolk, he saw in the distance a fire and said unto his housefolk: Bide ye (here). Lo! I see in the distance a fire; peradventure I shall bring you tidings thence, or a brand from the fire that ye may warm yourselves.”

2. (intransitive)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.”

3. (intransitive)To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
4. (transitive)To travel throughout (a place).

   “I’ve travelled the world.”

5. (transitive)To force to journey.

   “They shall not be travailed forth of their own franchises.”

6. (obsolete)To labour; to travail.

   “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;”

   “We labour sore, and travel hard, and much Study is a Weariness to our Flesh; and of making many Books there is no End.”

   “Man holds in constant service bound The blustering winds and seas; Nor suns disdain to travel hard Their master, man, to please;”

noun

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

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

   “space travel”

   “a travel iron”

2. (countable, in-plural, uncountable)A series of journeys.

   “I’m off on my travels around France again.”

   “But overall, I think the railway delivered very well on my travels. I'd give it 9/10 - there are just a few little rough edges that need smoothing off.”

3. (countable, in-plural, uncountable)An account of one's travels.

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

   “CALUAT, s. This in some old travels is used for Ar. khilwat, 'privacy, a private interview' (C. P. Brown, MS.).”

4. (countable, uncountable)The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
5. (countable, uncountable)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.”

6. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Labour; parturition; travail.

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

7. (countable, uncountable)Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed.

   “The keys have great travel.”