Travel Definition–verb (used without object) | 1. | to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey: to travel for pleasure. | | 2. | to move or go from one place or point to another. | | 3. | to proceed or advance in any way. | | 4. | to go from place to place as a representative of a business firm. | | 5. | to associate or consort: He travels in a wealthy crowd. | | 6. | Informal. to move with speed. | | 7. | to pass, or be transmitted, as light or sound. | | 8. | Basketball. walk (def. 9). | | 9. | to move in a fixed course, as a piece of mechanism. | –verb (used with object) | 10. | to travel, journey, or pass through or over, as a country or road. | | 11. | to journey or traverse (a specified distance): We traveled a hundred miles. | | 12. | to cause to journey; ship: to travel logs downriver. | –noun | 13. | the act of traveling; journeying, esp. to distant places: to travel to other planets. | | 14. | travels, | a. | journeys; wanderings: to set out on one's travels. | | b. | journeys as the subject of a written account or literary work: a book of travels. | | c. | such an account or work. | | | 15. | the coming and going of persons or conveyances along a way of passage; traffic: an increase in travel on state roads. | | 16. | Machinery. | a. | the complete movement of a moving part, esp. a reciprocating part, in one direction, or the distance traversed; stroke. | | | 17. | movement or passage in general: to reduce the travel of food from kitchen to table. | –adjective | 18. | used or designed for use while traveling: a travel alarm clock. | |
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Information Definition–noun | 1. | knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance; news: information concerning a crime. | | 2. | knowledge gained through study, communication, research, instruction, etc.; factual data: His wealth of general information is amazing. | | 3. | the act or fact of informing. | | 4. | an office, station, service, or employee whose function is to provide information to the public: The ticket seller said to ask information for a timetable. | | 6. | Law. | a. | an official criminal charge presented, usually by the prosecuting officers of the state, without the interposition of a grand jury. | | b. | a criminal charge, made by a public official under oath before a magistrate, of an offense punishable summarily. | | c. | the document containing the depositions of witnesses against one accused of a crime. | | | 7. | (in information theory) an indication of the number of possible choices of messages, expressible as the value of some monotonic function of the number of choices, usually the logarithm to the base 2. | | 8. | Computers. | a. | important or useful facts obtained as output from a computer by means of processing input data with a program: Using the input data, we have come up with some significant new information. | | b. | data at any stage of processing (input, output, storage, transmission, etc.). | | |
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