Hypertext Webster Gateway: "travel"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Travel \Trav"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Traveled}or {Travelled};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Traveling} or {Travelling}.] [Properly, to
labor, and the same word as travail.]
1. To labor; to travail. [Obsoles.] --Hooker.
2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the
city, or through the streets.
3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place,
or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his
health; he is traveling in California.
4. To pass; to go; to move.
Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
--Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Travel \Trav"el\, v. t.
1. To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent.
``I travel this profound.'' --Milton.
2. To force to journey. [R.]
They shall not be traveled forth of their own
franchises. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Travel \Trav"el\, n.
1. The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a
journey.
With long travel I am stiff and weary. --Shak.
His travels ended at his country seat. --Dryden.
2. pl. An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and
observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; --
often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.
3. (Mach.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as,
the travel of a slide valve.
4. Labor; parturition; travail. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
travel
n 1: the act of going from one place to another; "he enjoyed
selling but he hated the travel" [syn: {traveling}, {travelling}]
2: a movement through space that changes the location of
something [syn: {change of location}]
3: self-propelled movement [syn: {locomotion}]
v 1: change location; move, travel, or proceed; "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 before night fell" [syn: {go}, {move},
{locomote}] [ant: {stay in place}]
2: undertake a journey or trip [syn: {journey}]
3: make a trip for pleasure [syn: {trip}, {jaunt}]
4: travel upon or across; "travel the oceans" [syn: {journey}]
5: undergo transportation, as in a vehicle
6: travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding
work, preaching, or acting as a judge [syn: {move around}]
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