Descend vs Travel - What's the difference?
descend | travel |
To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward
(poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
(with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self
To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance.
(anatomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
(music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
(basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
To travel throughout (a place).
To force to journey.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To labour; to travail.
The act of traveling.
(p) A series of journeys.
(p) An account of one's travels.
The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
(obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.
In intransitive terms the difference between descend and travel
is that descend is to come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance while travel is to pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.In transitive terms the difference between descend and travel
is that descend is to go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of while travel is to force to journey.As a noun travel is
the act of traveling.descend
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- The rain descended , and the floods came. Matthew vii. 25.
- We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.
- [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended . .
- And on the suitors let thy wrath descend . .
- he descended from his high estate
- the beggar may descend from a prince
- a crown descends to the heir
- they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder
- But never tears his cheek descended . .
Synonyms
* go downAntonyms
* ascend * go upDerived terms
* descendertravel
English
Alternative forms
* travellVerb
- I like to travel .
- Soundwaves can travel through water.
- I’ve travelled the world.
- They shall not be travelled forth of their own franchises.
- (Hooker)
Synonyms
* fare, journeyDerived terms
* (l), (l)Noun
- space travel
- travel to Spain
- I’m off on my travels around France again.
- There was a lot of travel in the handle, because the tool was out of adjustment.
- My drill press has a travel of only 1.5 inches.
