The difference between Traffic and Travel
When used as nouns, traffic means pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof, whereas travel means the act of traveling.
When used as verbs, traffic means to pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money, whereas travel means to be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage.
check bellow for the other definitions of Traffic and Travel
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Traffic as a noun:
Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.
Examples:
"The traffic is slow during rush hour."
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Traffic as a noun:
Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
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Traffic as a noun:
Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
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Traffic as a noun:
Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
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Traffic as a noun:
Commodities of the market.
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Traffic as a verb (intransitive):
To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods
Examples:
"synonyms: trade"
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Traffic as a verb (intransitive):
To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
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Traffic as a verb (transitive):
To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
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Travel as a verb (intransitive):
To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
Examples:
"I like to travel."
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Travel as a verb (intransitive):
To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
Examples:
"Soundwaves can travel through water."
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Travel as a verb (intransitive, basketball):
To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
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Travel as a verb (transitive):
To travel throughout (a place).
Examples:
"I’ve travelled the world."
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Travel as a verb (transitive):
To force to journey.
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Travel as a verb (obsolete):
To labour; to travail.
Examples:
"rfquotek Hooker"
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Travel as a noun:
The act of traveling.
Examples:
"space travel"
"travel to Spain"
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Travel as a noun:
A series of journeys.
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Travel as a noun:
An account of one's travels.
Examples:
"I’m off on my travels around France again."
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Travel as a noun:
The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
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Travel as a noun:
The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
Examples:
"There was a lot of travel in the handle, because the tool was out of adjustment."
"My drill press has a travel of only 1.5 inches."
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Travel as a noun (obsolete):
Labour; parturition; travail.