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TRAVEL BY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does travel by mean?
• TRAVEL BY (verb)
The verb TRAVEL BY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: TRAVEL BY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Move past
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
go by; go past; pass; pass by; surpass; travel by
Context example:
One line of soldiers surpassed the other
Hypernyms (to "travel by" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "travel by"):
skirt (pass around or about; move along the border)
run by (pass by while running)
fly by (pass by while flying)
fly by; whisk by; zip by (move by very quickly)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
These cars won't travel by
Context examples
The company hopes to reduce the cost of future space travel by developing a dependable system of retrieving and reusing launch rockets for future missions.
(SpaceX Completes Successful Rocket Launch, VOA News)
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