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Travel vs Crossing - What's the difference?

travel | crossing |

As verbs the difference between travel and crossing

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 crossing is .

As nouns the difference between travel and crossing

is that travel is the act of traveling while crossing is an intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.

As an adjective crossing is

(rare) extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction.

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

    * *

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words

    crossing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross
  • A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed
  • A voyage across a body of water
  • (architecture) The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it
  • Movement into a crossed position.
  • * 1989 , Stephen N. Tchudi, ?Diana D. Mitchell, Explorations in the Teaching of English (page 270)
    • For example, experts in kinesics — body language — recognize that a person sends out hundreds of nonverbal signals — eyebrow twitches, frowns, leg crossings and uncrossings — every second while he or she is speaking and listening.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (rare) Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • References

    * * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.