What's the difference between thoroughfare and travel?

Thoroughfare


Definition:

  • (n.) A passage through; a passage from one street or opening to another; an unobstructed way open to the public; a public road; hence, a frequented street.
  • (n.) A passing or going through; passage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For months, more than 170,000 mainly Syrian refugees travelling north from Greece have used Hungary as a thoroughfare to the safety of northern and western Europe.
  • (2) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
  • (3) The thoroughfare channel reported by Chambers and Zweifach was also observed.
  • (4) There are nominal cycle lanes on some of the capital's main thoroughfares, but with seven million cars jostling for space, those lanes are often cannibalised by motorised rickshaws and scooters, leaving no safe space for bicyclists.
  • (5) True arteriovenous shunts are not present in most skeletal muscles, but 15-20% of the microvessels represent thoroughfare or preferential flow channels.
  • (6) It’s just their economic status that makes them more vulnerable.” A growing body of research also shows that those living within a few hundred metres of major thoroughfares suffer greater health problems.
  • (7) On a prominent site on Notting Hill Gate, the main thoroughfare, between a popular cinema and the busy underground station, he took over the premises of a cheap Italian café called Topo D’Oro.
  • (8) In the anterior portion of the ciliary processes a "thoroughfare channel" (bypass) was found leading from the arteriolar tree directly into the marginal venule bypassing the capillary network of the ciliary processes.
  • (9) Turkey, with its long and often porous border with Syria, has been a major thoroughfare for many of the thousands of foreign fighters seeking to join extremists including Islamic State (Isis), which has captured territory across Iraq and Syria.
  • (10) Many cities would struggle if given just 24 hours to organise a victory parade which involved the deployment of two helicopters, countless police officers, a small army of undercover security experts and the closure not just of the main square but also a key thoroughfare, in the middle of the rush hour.
  • (11) The Marriott is in the centre of the city, close to the national assembly, the main commercial thoroughfare and the national television headquarters.
  • (12) But on Qasr-el-Aini Street , a normally frantic thoroughfare that passes the houses of parliament, the walls have rid the area of cars.
  • (13) Ulster loyalists are mobilising to block the parade being routed through Royal Avenue, Belfast's main shopping thoroughfare.
  • (14) There are more than 5m cars in Beijing, and they have transformed its once-generous thoroughfares into a noxious, honking mass.
  • (15) For Chris Hadfield, the former commander of the International Space Station , it was Plank Road, a 19th-century thoroughfare running through southern Ontario, Canada.
  • (16) Assad’s troops imposed a siege last month after seizing high ground overlooking the Castello Road, the only thoroughfare bringing aid to the east of the city from Turkey, which backs the opposition.
  • (17) Egypt plans to add an extra lane to the Suez canal, one of the world's most important thoroughfares for trade, in an attempt to increase the number of ships using it each day.
  • (18) flooded on to Tverskaya Street, the Moscow thoroughfare that leads straight to the Kremlin.
  • (19) Traffic along Calle Ocho, the main thoroughfare of Little Havana, became noticeably lighter and all work was dropped as groups of people crowded around TV sets to witness this piece of history.
  • (20) 2.39pm BST Athens returns to normal... And it's back to business on Ermou, Athens' main commercial thoroughfare, says Helena Smith who is out on the ground.

Travel


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To labor; to travail.
  • (v. i.) To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.
  • (v. i.) To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.
  • (v. i.) To pass; to go; to move.
  • (v. t.) To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent.
  • (v. t.) To force to journey.
  • (n.) The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.
  • (n.) An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; -- often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.
  • (n.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve.
  • (n.) Labor; parturition; travail.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
  • (2) MI6 introduced him to the Spanish intelligence service and in 2006 he travelled to Madrid.
  • (3) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
  • (4) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
  • (5) Thirty-six dogs were seropositive, 28 of which had not traveled to endemic areas.
  • (6) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
  • (7) Travel around Fukushima today and there is little evidence of disaster or trauma.
  • (8) Pulse-chase experiments showed that the ornithine transcarbamylase precursor and the thiolase traveled from the cytosol to the mitochondria with half-lives of less than 5 min, whereas the three fusion proteins traveled with half-lives of 10-15 min.
  • (9) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
  • (10) For months, more than 170,000 mainly Syrian refugees travelling north from Greece have used Hungary as a thoroughfare to the safety of northern and western Europe.
  • (11) Ultimate nonsurvivors of ICU admission (36 per cent) had shorter out-of-hospital times, shorter travel distances, and increased interventional support, as assessed by the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System applied over the telephone and prior to departure at the referring hospital.
  • (12) Routine vaccination of travellers to endemic areas cannot be recommended; however, for people travelling to regions with a high transmission rate vaccination should be considered.
  • (13) As travelling is generally increasing, this disease might be encountered more frequently also in Europe.
  • (14) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di María had failed to board the plane.
  • (15) Most cases of typhoid fever in the United States occur in international travelers, with the greatest risk associated with travel to Peru, India, Pakistan, and Chile.
  • (16) He knows polymer notes from travels in Australia, where they were first introduced in 1988, and he wants Britain to "move with the times" too.
  • (17) It won't be worth putting away his travel bags after returning from Perth as the G20 summit in Cannes, France, beckons.
  • (18) In a triple tier configuration, females concentrated 66% of their travel on the top tier.
  • (19) After filming, he stayed on in the Middle East for several weeks to travel.
  • (20) The findings suggest that health planning could be considerably enhanced by a better understanding of patient preferences for medical care travel behavior, the origins of these preferences, and their relationship to the use of available medical care opportunities.