Travel vs Extreme - What's the difference?
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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.
Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.
In the greatest or highest degree; intense.
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, title= Drastic, or of great severity.
Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment.
(archaic) Ultimate, final or last.
The greatest or utmost point, degree or condition.
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Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale.
A drastic expedient.
(mathematics) Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1'' and ''6'' in ''1:2=3:6 .
(archaic) Extremely.
* 1796 Charles Burney, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Metastasio 2.5:
As nouns the difference between travel and extreme
is that travel is the act of traveling while extreme is the greatest or utmost point, degree or condition.As a verb travel
is to be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.As an adjective extreme is
of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.As an adverb extreme is
extremely.travel
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.
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, progressionDerived terms
* travel bug * active travelExternal links
* (wikipedia)References
* *Anagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsextreme
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Adjective
(en-adj)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}
Not Just Going with the Flow, passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}
- the extreme hour of life
Synonyms
* (place) farthest, furthest, most distant, outermost, remotest * (in greatest or highest degree) greatest, highest * (excessive) excessive, too much * (drastic) drastic, severe * (sports) dangerous * (ultimate) final, last, ultimateAntonyms
* (place) closest, nearest * (in greatest or highest degree) least * (excessive) moderate, reasonable * (drastic) moderate, reasonableDerived terms
* extremenessNoun
(en noun)Adverb
(en adverb)- In the empty and extreme cold theatre.
