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Locomote vs Locomotion - What's the difference?

locomote | locomotion |

As a verb locomote

is to move or travel (from one location to another).

As a noun locomotion is

the ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.

locomote

English

Verb

(locomot)
  • To move or travel (from one location to another).
  • *2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA 2003, p. 394:
  • *:‘Lucy and her kind did not locomote in anything like the modern human fashion,’ insists Tattersall.

    • locomotion

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.
  • (biology) Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming or flying.

    • Derived terms

    * locomotive * locomotor ----