TRAVEL BY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does travel by mean? 

• TRAVEL BY (verb)
  The verb TRAVEL BY has 1 sense:

1. move past

  Familiarity information: TRAVEL BY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAVEL BY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move past

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

go by; go past; pass; pass by; surpass; travel by

Context example:

One line of soldiers surpassed the other

Hypernyms (to "travel by" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "travel by"):

skirt (pass around or about; move along the border)

run by (pass by while running)

fly by (pass by while flying)

fly by; whisk by; zip by (move by very quickly)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

These cars won't travel by

 Context examples 

The company hopes to reduce the cost of future space travel by developing a dependable system of retrieving and reusing launch rockets for future missions.

(SpaceX Completes Successful Rocket Launch, VOA News)