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TRAVEL TO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does travel to mean? 

TRAVEL TO (verb)
  The verb TRAVEL TO has 1 sense:

1. go to certain places as for sightseeingplay

  Familiarity information: TRAVEL TO used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TRAVEL TO (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Go to certain places as for sightseeing

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

travel to; visit

Context example:

Did you ever visit Paris?

Hypernyms (to "travel to" is one way to...):

jaunt; travel; trip (make a trip for pleasure)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "travel to"):

sightsee (visit famous or interesting sights)

frequent; haunt (be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


 Context examples 


A system of glands and cells that make hormones that are released directly into the blood and travel to tissues and organs all over the body.

(Endocrine system, NCI Dictionary)

It is unclear if you will travel a short distance for business or pleasure, but it appears more likely that you will travel to enjoy a romantic time away.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Upon administration of the lenti-D/ABCD1-transduced autologous hematopoietic stem cells, the cells proliferate, and some travel to the brain and differentiate into microglial cells.

(Lenti-D/ABCD1-transduced Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

If you travel to countries where Hepatitis B is common, you should get the vaccine.

(Hepatitis B, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

The vibrations travel to your inner ear, a snail-shaped organ.

(Ear Disorders, NIH)

It could scarcely be called a happening, when, at the age of twenty-five, she accompanied her mistress on a bit of travel to the United States.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A type of immune cell that is one of the first cell types to travel to the site of an infection.

(Neutrophil, NCI Dictionary)

After some time he took it in his head that he would travel to Rome.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Blood clots can form in, or travel to, the blood vessels in the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, and limbs.

(Blood Clots, NIH)

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will launch September 2016 and travel to a near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu to harvest a sample of surface material and return it to Earth for study.

(NASA to Map the Surface of an Asteroid, NASA)



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