Travel vs Observe - 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.
(lb) To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
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*1892 , (Arthur Conan Doyle),
*:“One horse?” interjected Holmes. ¶ “Yes, only one.” ¶ “Did you observe the colour?”
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, title= (lb) To follow or obey the custom, practice, or rules (especially of a religion).
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*Bible, (w)
*:Ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread.
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, title= (lb) To comment on something; to make an observation.
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ ("I never) understood it," she observed , lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
As verbs the difference between travel and observe
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 observe is .As a noun travel
is the act of traveling.travel
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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
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* 1000 English basic wordsobserve
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Verb
(observ)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.}}
England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report, passage=A sell-out crowd of 10,000 then observed perfectly a period of silence before the team revealed their black armbands, complete with stitched-in poppies, for the match. After Fifa’s about-turn, it must have been a frantic few days for the England kit manufacturer. The on-field challenge was altogether more straightforward. }}
