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Travel vs Locomote - What's the difference?

travel | locomote |

As verbs the difference between travel and locomote

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

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

    References

    * *

    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.