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Travel vs Barnstorm - What's the difference?

travel | barnstorm |

As verbs the difference between travel and barnstorm

is that travel is to be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another while barnstorm is to travel around the countryside making political speeches etc.

As a noun travel

is the act of traveling.

travel

English

Alternative forms

* travell

Verb

  • To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
    • I like to travel .
  • To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
    • Soundwaves can travel through water.
  • (basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
  • To travel throughout (a place).
    • I’ve travelled the world.
  • To force to journey.
  • * Spenser
    • They shall not be travelled forth of their own franchises.
  • (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
    • (Hooker)

    Synonyms

    * fare, journey

    Derived terms

    * (l), (l)

    Noun

  • The act of traveling.
    • space travel
    travel to Spain
  • (p) A series of journeys.
  • (p) An account of one's travels.
    • I’m off on my travels around France again.
  • 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.
    • 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.
  • (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

    • Synonyms

    * (act of travelling) journey, passage, tour, trip * (activity or traffic along a route or through a given point) traffic * (working motion of a piece of machinery) stroke, movement, progression

    Derived terms

    * travel bug * active travel

    External links

    * (wikipedia)

    References

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    * 1000 English basic words

    barnstorm

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To travel around the countryside making political speeches etc
  • (US) To appear at fairs and carnivals in exhibitions of stunt flying, or sporting events
  • (US, of an athletics team) To travel from town to town performing in front of small crowds. [http://www.sportingnews.com/archives/sports2000/numbers/173540.html][http://www.hoophall.com/halloffamers/bhof-original-celtics.html][http://www.jimthorpe.org/jim_thorpe_athlete.php]

    • Quotations

    *1899 , , as cited in 1901, J. B. Pond, Eccentricities of Genius , page 227 *:I'm not going to barnstorm the platform any more, but I am glad you have corralled Howells. *2005 , Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, Mencken: The American Iconoclast , page 109 *:It wasn't just the smell of perfumes that assailed his nose every time he entered a stuffy auditorium that he found unwelcome; it was the childish playwriting and barnstorm acting that was driving out the intelligent theatergoer and the production of less commercial plays. *2006 , Ethan Wolff, Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Manhattan , page 242 *:Smaller bands play the clubs ..., while the more established acts barnstorm through New York's surfeit of midsize halls.