Definition of "travel" in Englisch

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.
   • He that feareth oblatration must not travel.

2. (intransitive) To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.

   • (ballistics)
   • Soundwaves can travel through water.
   • The supposedly secret news of Mary's engagement travelled quickly through her group of friends.

3. (intransitive, basketball) 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.

6. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.

noun

1. The act of traveling; passage from place to place.

   • I like travel, but it’s always too tiring.
   • space travel

2. (in the plural) A series of journeys.

   • I’m off on my travels around France again.

3. (in the plural) An account of one's travels.

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

4. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.

5. 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. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

7. Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed.

   • The keys have great travel.