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TRAVELING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of going from one place to another
Example:
he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel
Synonyms:
travel; traveling; travelling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("traveling" is a kind of...):
motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "traveling"):
commutation; commuting (the travel of a commuter)
seafaring; water travel (travel by water)
junketing (taking an excursion for pleasure)
on the road; on tour (travelling about)
staging (travel by stagecoach)
leg; stage (a section or portion of a journey or course)
journey; journeying (the act of traveling from one place to another)
air; air travel; aviation (travel via aircraft)
horseback riding; riding (travel by being carried on horseback)
driving (the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal)
crossing (traveling across)
wayfaring (traveling (especially on foot))
roving; vagabondage; wandering (travelling about without any clear destination)
traversal; traverse (travel across)
peregrination (traveling or wandering around)
circumnavigation (traveling around something (by ship or plane))
walk (the act of walking somewhere)
Derivation:
travel (undertake a journey or trip)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb travel
Context examples:
There are a number of large pieces traveling the Earth's orbit, and tracking their path can help prevent their potentially destructive impact.
(High tech Russian telescope to start operating in Brazil, Agência Brasil)
We introduce the catalyst into tiny vesicles or exosomes the size of about 100 nanometres, which are capable of traveling right inside the tumorous cell.
(Scientists successfully deliver “Trojan horse” catalysts into cancerous tumour cells to destroy them from within, Universities of Granada)
"But you hate traveling, Sir. I can't ask it of you at your age," began Laurie, who was grateful for the sacrifice, but much preferred to go alone, if he went at all.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It took us a long day, traveling from seven in the morning till eight at night, with only two breaks of one hour each, to get through this obstacle.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The dust was traced back to the local interstellar cloud: a nearly empty bubble of gas and dust that our solar system is traveling through with a distinct direction and speed.
(Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust, NASA)
After more than a decade traveling through space, a robotic lander built by the European Space Agency has made the first-ever soft landing of a spacecraft on a comet.
(Rosetta's 'Philae' Makes Historic First Landing on a Comet, NASA)
Since 2007 the probe has been traveling through the outermost layer of the heliosphere — the vast bubble around the Sun and the planets dominated by solar material and magnetic fields.
(NASA Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space, NASA)
They say the space station is traveling 17,400 mph and orbits Earth about every 90 minutes.
(Scientists Track Chinese Space Station as It Falls to Earth, VOA)
Motion sickness is a common problem in people traveling by car, train, airplanes and especially boats.
(Motion Sickness, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
But you should be aware of it if you are traveling to the Middle East or parts of Central America, South America, Asia, Africa or southern Europe.
(Leishmaniasis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
