different between visiting vs travelling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?z?t??/

Verb

visiting

1. present participle of visit

Noun

visiting (plural visitings)

1. The act of someone or something that visits.
   • 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth

     Come, you spirits […] make thick my blood, / Stop up th' access and passage to remorse / That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose […]

   • 2003, Joseph A. Conforti, Imagining New England (page 107)

     Instead, he found the Sabbath in North Carolina "generally disregarded, or distinguished by the convivial visitings of the white inhabitants, and the noisy diversions of the negroes."

English

Alternative forms

• traveling (US)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?æv.l??/
• IPA^(key): /?t?æ.v?.l??/

Verb

travelling

1. present participle of travel

Noun

travelling (countable and uncountable, plural travellings)

1. The act of one who travels; a journey.

Translations

Adjective

travelling (not comparable)

1. That travels (with one)

   a travelling companion

Derived terms

• travelling post office

French

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, from English travel (“ing”) +? -ing.

Noun

travelling m (plural travellings)

1. (cinematography) dolly, camera dolly (a specialized piece of film equipment resembling a little cart on which a camera is mounted)
2. (cinematography) travelling shot

Spanish

Noun

travelling m (plural travellings)

1. Alternative form of trávelin