travel
• verb (travelled, travelling; US also traveled, traveling) 1 make a journey. 2 journey along (a road) or through (a region). 3 move or go from one place to another. 4 withstand a journey without adverse effects. • noun 1 the action of travelling. 2 (travels) journeys, especially abroad. 3 before another noun (of a device) sufficiently compact for use when travelling: a travel iron. 4 the range, rate, or mode of motion of a part of a machine. — ORIGIN variant of TRAVAIL and originally in the same sense.
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