different between chase vs travel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English chacen, from Anglo-Norman chacer, Old French chacier, from Late Latin capti?re, present active infinitive of capti?, from Latin capt?, frequentative of capi?. Compare French chasser (“to hunt”, “to chase”), Spanish cazar (“to hunt”), Portuguese caçar (“to hunt”), see Norwegian skysse (“to hunt”).Doublet of catch.

Alternative forms

• chace (obsolete)

Noun

chase (countable and uncountable, plural chases)

1. The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
2. A hunt.
3. (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
4. (Britain) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 14:

     Outside, the stately oaks, rooted for ages in the green ground which has never known ploughshare, but was still a chase when kings rode to battle with sword and shield and rode a-hunting with bow and arrow, bear witness to his greatness.

5. Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
6. (obsolete) A wild animal that is hunted.

   Synonym: game

   • 1575, George Gascoigne, The Noble Arte of Venerie of Hunting, London: Christopher Barker, Chapter 40, p. 111,^[1]

     As touching the Harte and such other light chases or beasts of Uenerie, the huntesmen on horsebacke may followe theyr houndes alwayes by the same wayes that they saw him passe ouer,

   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act V, Scene 2,^[2]

     Hold, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase,

     For I myself must hunt this deer to death.

7. (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
8. (real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.
9. (real tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point.
10. (cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
11. (music) A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

chase (third-person singular simple present chases, present participle chasing, simple past and past participle chased)

1. (transitive) To pursue.
   1. (transitive) To follow at speed.
   2. (transitive) To hunt.
   3. (transitive) To seek to attain.

      the team are chasing their first home win this season.

   4. (transitive) To seek the company of (a member of the opposite sex) in an obvious way.

      He spends all his free time chasing girls.

   5. (transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
2. (transitive) To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser

   I need something to chase this shot with.

3. (transitive, cricket) To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.

   Australia will be chasing 217 for victory on the final day.

4. (transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch

   Jones chases one out of the zone for strike two.

5. (transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed

   The rally chased the starter.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:chase.

Synonyms

• pursue

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• follow

Etymology 2

Perhaps from French châsse (“case”, “reliquary”), from Old French chasse, from Latin capsa.

Noun

chase (plural chases)

1. (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.

Translations

Etymology 3

Possibly from obsolete French chas (“groove”, “enclosure”), from Old French, from Latin capsa, box. Or perhaps a shortening or derivative of enchase.

Noun

chase (plural chases)

1. A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
2. (architecture) A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
3. The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
4. The cavity of a mold.
5. (shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.

Translations

Verb

chase (third-person singular simple present chases, present participle chasing, simple past and past participle chased)

1. (transitive) To groove; indent.
2. (transitive) To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.

3. (transitive) To cut (the thread of a screw).
4. (transitive) To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.

Translations

Anagrams

• Chaes, Cheas, HACEs, aches, e-cash, ecash

Further reading

• chase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• travail (obsolete)
• travell (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English travelen (“to make a laborious journey, travel”) from Middle Scots travailen (“to toil, work, travel”), alteration of Middle English travaillen (“to toil, work”), from Old French travailler (“to trouble, suffer, be worn out”). See travail.

Displaced native Middle English faren (“to travel, fare”) (from Old English faran (“to travel, journey”)), Middle English lithen (“to go, travel”) (from Old English l?þan (“to go, travel”)), Middle English feren (“to go, travel”) (from Old English f?ran (“to go, travel”)), Middle English ?ewalken, iwalken (“to walk about, travel”) (from Old English ?ewealcan (“to go, traverse”)), Middle English swinken (“to work, travel”) (from Old English swincan (“to labour, work at”)). More at fare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?æv?l/
• Rhymes: -æv?l

Verb

travel (third-person singular simple present travels, present participle travelling or (US) traveling, simple past and past participle travelled or (US) traveled)

1. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
2. (intransitive) To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit

3. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
4. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).

5. (transitive) To force to journey.
6. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Hooker to this entry?)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• fare, journey, reyse

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

travel (countable and uncountable, plural travels)

1. The act of traveling; passage from place to place.

2. (in the plural) A series of journeys.

3. (in the plural) An account of one's travels.

4. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
5. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.

6. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

Usage notes

• Used attributively to describe things that have been created or modified for use during a journey.

Synonyms

• (act of travelling): journey, passage, tour, trip, voyage
• (activity or traffic along a route or through a given point): traffic
• (working motion of a piece of machinery): stroke, movement, progression

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• travel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• travel in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• travel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• retval, varlet

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Possibly from French travail; compare with Danish travl.

Adjective

travel (neuter singular travelt, definite singular and plural travle, comparative travlere, indefinite superlative travlest, definite superlative travleste)

1. busy

References

• “travel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Possibly from French travail; compare with Danish travl.

Adjective

travel (neuter singular travelt, definite singular and plural travle, comparative travlare, indefinite superlative travlast, definite superlative travlaste)

1. busy

References

• “travel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From traväl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?træ????/

Noun

travel

1. A jumble of tracks, footprints.