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# travel

«travel» in Mova's school dictionary: **to go from one place to another, often a long way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb, noun (travel, travels, traveled or travelled, traveling or travelling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To travel means to go from one place to another, often a long way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travel/#m1)

2) Travel is the act of travelling: air travel, space travel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travel/#m2)

3) Light and sound travel: they move from one place to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travel/#m3)

4) Travels are journeys, especially long ones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travel/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: distance, speed and time of a trip: distance = speed × time; speed = distance ÷ time. Science: sound travels through air; light travels faster than sound. Everyday: travel by car, bus, plane; travel sickness; time travel in stories.

### examples

- They traveled 150 miles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travel/#x1)
- The car travels 50 miles in one hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travel/#x2)
- How far does she travel in 3 hours? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travel/#x3)
- He travels 12 km to work each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travel/#x4)
- We traveled by plane to see Grandma. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travel/#x5)
- Light travels faster than sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travel/#x6)
- Some children get travel sick in the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travel/#x7)
- In the story, the boy travels back in time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travel/#x8)
- "Oh, to travel there!" exclaimed others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travel/#x9)

### note

US: traveled, traveling; UK: travelled, travelling. Distance = speed × time; speed = distance ÷ time. Trap: «to work each day» may need doubling for the way back.

### In the corpora

- [Stories grow as they travel: one mouse in the kitchen becomes "the school's closing because of rats".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/16/)
- [Elephants talk with very low rumbles that travel far, and they may feel them through their feet as well as hear them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth/15/)
- [A rabbit thumps its back foot to warn other rabbits of danger, and the thud travels through the ground into the burrow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks/8/)
- [Rabbits thump their back feet to warn others of danger, and the thump travels through the ground into burrows.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/9/)
- [Squirrel monkeys travel in big troops and often follow capuchin monkeys to find fruit trees, and many eyes spot eagles sooner.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «travel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.