(~s, ~ling, ~led)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
Note: in AM, use '~ing', '~ed'
1.
If you ~, you go from one place to another, often to a place that is far away.
You had better ~ to Helsinki tomorrow...
I’ve been ~ing all day...
Students often ~ hundreds of miles to get here...
I had been ~ling at 150 kilometres an hour...
He was a charming ~ling companion.
VERB: V prep/adv, V, V amount/n, V at amount, V-ing
~ling
I love ~ling...
N-UNCOUNT
2.
Travel is the activity of ~ling.
He detested air ~.
...a writer of ~ books.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If you ~ the world, the country, or the area, you go to many different places in the world or in a particular country or area.
Dr Ryan ~led the world gathering material for his book...
VERB: V n
4.
When light or sound from one place reaches another, you say that it ~s to the other place.
When sound ~s through water, strange things can happen...
Light ~s at around 300,000,000 metres per second.
VERB: V prep/adv, V at amount
5.
When news becomes known by people in different places, you can say that it ~s to them.
News of his work ~ed all the way to Asia...
VERB: V adv/prep
6.
Someone’s ~s are the journeys that they make to places a long way from their home.
He also collects things for the house on his ~s abroad.
N-PLURAL: with poss, usu poss N
7.
see also ~ling , much-~led , well-~led
8.
If you ~ light, you ~ without taking much luggage.
PHRASE: V inflects