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  • 11travel — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Go from one place to another Nouns 1. travel; traveling, wayfaring, itinerancy, tourism; journey, voyage, excursion, junket, expedition, safari, tour, [pleasure or business] trip, trek, crossing, cruise …

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  • 12travel — 1 verb travelled, travelling BrE, traveled, traveling AmE 1 JOURNEY a) (I) to go from one place to another, or to several places, especially to distant places: If I had a lot of money I d travel. | They re travelling down from Edinburgh on Monday …

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  • 13plane´ness — plane1 «playn», noun, adjective, verb, planed, plan|ing. –n. 1. = airplane. (Cf. ↑airplane) 2. a level; grade: »Try to keep your work on a high plane …

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  • 14plane — plane1 planeness, n. /playn/, n., adj., v., planed, planing. n. 1. a flat or level surface. 2. Geom. a surface generated by a straight line moving at a constant velocity with respect to a fixed point. 3. Fine Arts. an area of a two dimensional… …

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  • 15plane — 1. n., adj., & v. n. 1 a a flat surface on which a straight line joining any two points on it would wholly lie. b an imaginary flat surface through or joining etc. material objects. 2 a level surface. 3 colloq. = AEROPLANE. 4 a flat surface… …

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  • 16plane — I [[t]pleɪn[/t]] n. adj. v. planed, plan•ing 1) a flat or level surface 2) math. Geom. a surface generated by a straight line moving at a constant velocity with respect to a fixed point 3) fia an area of a two dimensional surface having… …

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  • 17plane — I. verb (planed; planing) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French planer, from Late Latin planare, from Latin planus level more at floor Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to make smooth or even ; level …

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  • 18travel — travelable, adj. /trav euhl/, v., traveled, traveling or (esp. Brit.) travelled, travelling, n., adj. v.i. 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… …

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  • 19travel — trav•el [[t]ˈtræv əl[/t]] v. eled, el•ing (esp. brit.) elled, el•ling, 1) to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip 2) to move or pass from one place or point to another 3) to proceed or advance 4) to pass or… …

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  • 20travel light — {v. phr.} To travel with very little luggage or with very little to carry. * /Plane passengers must travel light./ * /Tom and Fred traveled light on their camping trip./ …

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