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TRAVELED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Familiar with many parts of the world
Example:
well-traveled people
Synonyms:
traveled; travelled
Classified under:
Similar:
cosmopolitan (composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Traveled over or through; sometimes used as a combining term
Classified under:
Similar:
heavily traveled (subject to much traffic or travel)
Antonym:
untraveled (not traveled over or through)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb travel
Context examples:
The observed particles traveled up to 10 feet (3 meters) per second, and measured from smaller than an inch up to 4 inches (10 centimeters) in size.
(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)
They observed two high-speed waves: the first traveled at 1,860 miles per second and the second, less than a fourth that speed.
(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)
A unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector), defined as the distance of one centimeter traveled per unit time equal to one minute.
(Centimeter Per Minute, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector), defined as the distance of one mile traveled per unit time equal to one hour.
(Mile Per Hour, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector), defined as the distance of one centimeter traveled per unit time equal to two hours.
(Millimeter per Two Hours, NCI Thesaurus)
Then distorting his pockets with knobby bundles, and giving her the flowers to hold, he put up the old umbrella, and they traveled on again.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Because light from the galaxy hosting the black hole has traveled 12.5 billion years to reach us, astronomers are seeing the object as it was in the distant past.
(The Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe, NASA)
A unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector), defined as the distance of one millimeter traveled per unit time equal to one second.
(Millimeter Per Second, NCI Thesaurus)
When the researchers injected pDox-containing silicon particles intravenously into mice with cancerous tumors, the particles traveled through the blood stream and accumulated at the site of tumors, where blood vessels are leakier.
(Injectable nanoparticles deliver cancer therapy in mice, NIH)
A unit of measure to quantify the number of rectangular areas in a city surrounded by streets that the patient has traveled.
(Block Unit of Distance, NCI Thesaurus)
