travel
/ˈtɹævəl/ noun A2- The act of traveling; passage from place to place. · I like travel, but it’s always too tiring.· space travel
- A series of journeys. · I’m off on my travels around France again.
- An account of one's travels. · He released his travels in 1900, two years after returning from Africa.
- The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
- 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.
- Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed. · The keys have great travel.
Plural travels
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“If all the prisoners took it into their heads to travel a hundred leagues, and their guardians consented to accompany them, they would have a capital chance of escaping.”
Stephen, and who would not have taken the trouble had I not been told that when you travel much it is necessary.
“Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the approach of danger.”
The two of them were destined to travel together round the world before Sir Henry had become once more the hale, hearty man that he had been before he became master of that ill-omened estate.
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