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TRAVELING
travel, traveling, travelling
(noun) the act of going from one place to another; “he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
traveling
present participle of travel
Noun
traveling (plural travelings)
(basketball) A violation committed by progressing while holding the ball instead of dribbling it.
The action of the verb travel.
Adjective
traveling (not comparable)
That travels (with one).
a traveling companion
Source: Wiktionary
TRAVEL
Trav"el, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Traveled or Travelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Traveling or Travelling.] Etym: [Properly, to labor, and the same word as travail.]
1. To labor; to travail. [Obsoles.] Hooker.
2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.
3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.
4. To pass; to go; to move. Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. Shak.
Trav"el, v. t.
1. To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent. "I travel this profound." Milton.
2. To force to journey. [R.] They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises. Spenser.
Trav"el, n.
1. The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey. With long travel I am stiff and weary. Shak. His travels ended at his country seat. Dryden.
2. pl.
Definition: An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; -- often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.
3. (Mach.)
Definition: The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve.
4. Labor; parturition; travail. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COMMUNICATIONS
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
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