different between travel vs sail

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.

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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.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?l/, [se???]
• Rhymes: -e?l
• Homophone: sale

Etymology 1

From Middle English saile, sayle, seil, seyl, from Old English se?l, from Proto-West Germanic *segl, from Proto-Germanic *segl?. Cognate with West Frisian seil, Low German Segel, Dutch zeil, German Segel, Swedish segel.

Noun

sail (countable and uncountable, plural sails)

1. (nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.
2. (nautical, uncountable) The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.

3. (uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport.
4. A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.

5. (dated, plural "sail") A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.

6. (nautical) The conning tower of a submarine.
7. The blade of a windmill.
8. A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
9. The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
10. (fishing) A sailfish.

11. (paleontology) an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids
12. Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:sail

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English sailen, saylen, seilen, seilien, from Old English si?lan (“to sail”), from Proto-West Germanic *siglijan, from *siglijan?. Cognate with West Frisian sile, Low German seilen, Dutch zeilen, German segeln, Swedish segla, Icelandic sigla.

Verb

sail (third-person singular simple present sails, present participle sailing, simple past and past participle sailed)

2. To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.
3. To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
4. To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
5. (intransitive) To set sail; to begin a voyage.

6. To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
   • [flavor text of the card "Spirit of the Winds"] A spirit of the wind that freely sails the skies.
7. (intransitive) To move briskly.

Derived terms

• sail close to the wind

Translations

External links

• Sail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sail in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Alis, Isla, LIAs, LISA, Lias, Lisa, SiAl, ails, lais, lias, sial

Basque

Noun

sail

1. area

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sail. Doublet of zeil

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?l/
• Hyphenation: sail
• Rhymes: -e?l

Noun

sail n (plural sails)

1. (nautical) The fin or sail of a submarine.

   Synonym: toren

Irish

Alternative forms

• sal

Etymology

From Old Irish sal, from Proto-Celtic *sal?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sal?/

Noun

sail f (genitive singular saile)

1. dirt, dross, impurity

2. stain, defilement

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “sal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “sal” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 589.
• "sail" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “sail” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Volapük

Noun

sail (nominative plural sails)

1. (nautical) sail

Declension

Derived terms

• sailan
• sailön

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin solea (“sole”).

Noun

sail f (plural seiliau, not mutable)

1. base, basis, foundation

   Synonym: sylfaen

Derived terms

• seiliedig (“established; fundamental”)

References

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “sail”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies