teleport

en-verb

teleport (third-person singular simple present teleports, present participle teleporting, simple past and past participle teleported)

teleports (present singular third-person)
teleporting (participle present)
teleported (participle past)
teleported (past)

(intransitive) To travel, often instantaneously, from one point to another without physically crossing the distance between the two points.

傳送

travel without physically crossing distance

beam up

to travel from one point to another without physically crossing the distance


teleport

(science fiction) Synonym of teleporter (“science fiction device”)


close

From Middle English closen (“to close, enclose”), partly continuing (in altered form) earlier Middle English clusen (“to close”) (from Old English clȳsan (“to close, shut”); compare beclose, foreclose, etc.), and partly derived from Middle English clos (“close, shut up, confined, secret”, adjective), from Old French clos (“close, confined”, adjective), from Latin clausus (“shut up”, past participle), from claudere (“to bar, block, close, enclose, bring an end to, confine”), from Proto-Indo-European *klāw- (“key, hook, nail”), related to Latin clāvis (“key, deadbolt, bar”), clāvus (“nail, peg”), claustrum (“bar, bolt, barrier”), claustra (“dam, wall, barricade, stronghold”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “bar, bolt, key”), German schließen (“to close, conclude, lock”), Dutch sluiten (“to close, conclude, lock”). Partially replaced Old English lūcan (“to close, lock, enclose”), (whence English lock). Doublet of clause.

cog

(aviation, travel) The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.


thumb

en-verb

thumb (third-person singular simple present thumbs, present participle thumbing, simple past and past participle thumbed)

thumbs (present singular third-person)
thumbing (participle present)
thumbed (participle past)
thumbed (past)

From Middle English thombe, thoume, thoumbe, from Old English þūma, from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō, from Proto-Germanic *þūmô from Proto-Indo-European *tūm- (“to grow”).
See also West Frisian tomme, Dutch duim, Low German Duum, German Daumen, Danish tomme, Swedish tumme; also
Welsh tyfu (“to grow”), Latin tumēre (“to swell”), Lithuanian tumėti (“to thicken, clot”), Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “burial mound”), Avestan 𐬀𐬨𐬏𐬙 (amūt, “strong”), Sanskrit तुम्र (túmra, “strong, thick”). The parasitic ‐b has existed since the late 13th century.

EtymOnLine

Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “thumb”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

So I started thumbin' back east, toward my hometown.

Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained.

1969, Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster, Me and Bobby McGee

Thumbed a diesel down, outside a cafe.

1980, Kye Fleming, Dennis Morgan, Smoky Mountain Rain


RR

(aviation, travel, dated) (from the status code used in the GDS) reconfirm / reconfirmed.


travel

en-noun

travel (countable and uncountable, plural travels)

From Middle English travail, travell, from Old French travail, travaille, travaillie, traval, travalle, traveaul, traveil, traveille, travel. Doublet of travail.

it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

space travel

travel to Spain

The act of traveling; passage from place to place.


jump

Brill Publishers
hydraulic jump
jump cut
jump discontinuity
jump instruction

From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gumpōną ~ *gumbōną (“to hop, skip, jump”), an iterative verb. The OED suggests an imitative origin. Others have connected it to Ancient Greek ἀθεμβούσα (athemboúsa, “uninhibited”), which is unlikely. Related to jumble. In the sense “to propel oneself” it displaced leap partially and spring largely.
Cognates
Cognate with Middle Dutch gumpen (“to jump”), Low German jumpen (“to jump”), Middle High German gumpen, gampen (“to jump, hop”) (dialectal German gampen, Alemannic German gumpe, Walser dialect kumpu), Old Norse goppa (“to jump”) Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

قَفْزَة

instance of propelling oneself into the air — see also leap

(science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.


UTC

(travel, GDS) Initialism of unable to contact.


business

en-noun

business (countable and uncountable, plural businesses)

Tok Pisin: bisnis

→ Albanian: biznes

→ Belarusian: бі́знэс (bíznes)

→ Bulgarian: би́знес (bíznes)

→ Czech: business, byznys

→ Dutch: business

→ Indonesian: bisnis, bisnes

→ Faroese: besnissaður

→ Finnish: bisnes, business

→ French: business

→ Haitian Creole: biznis

→ Italian: business

→ Japanese: ビジネス (bijinesu)

→ Jersey Dutch: bääznäs

→ Marshallese: peejnej

→ Moroccan Arabic: بزناس (biznās)

desc

→ Newar: बनय्ज्या (banêjyā), बनेज्या (banejyā)

→ Pennsylvania German: Bisniss

→ Polish: biznes

→ Romanian: bișniță

desctree

→ Russian: би́знес (bíznes), би́знесъ (bíznɛs) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
→ Armenian: բիզնես (biznes)
→ Yakut: биисинэс (biisines)

→ Slovak: biznis

→ Spanish: bisnes

→ Tatar: business

→ Ukrainian: бі́знес (bíznes)

→ Welsh: busnes

From Middle English busines, busynes, businesse, bisynes, from Old English bisiġnes (“business, busyness”), equivalent to busy + -ness. Doublet of busyness.

inh

business in the front, party in the back

Gates, who always flew business or coach, didn't particularly like the high air fares Nishi was charging to Microsoft,[…]

1992, James Wallace, Jim Erickson, Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, page 154

(travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.


space travel

اَلرِّحْلَات اَلْفَضَائِيَّة

travel through space in order to visit and explore other worlds


CSS

en-noun

CSS (countable and uncountable, plural CSSs or CSSes)

(aviation, travel) Initialism of change segment status, a GDS code used on older types of airline keyboards.


metal

metal (countable and uncountable, plural metals)

nonmetal

antonym(s) of “any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms”

From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).

аметалл

atomic element or material made of such atoms

We have American Airlines tickets, but it's on British Airways metal.

(informal, travel, aviation) The actual airline operating a flight, rather than any of the codeshare operators.


itinerary

/aɪˈtɪnəɹɛɹi/

From Late Latin itinerarius (“pertaining to a journey”), neuter itinerārium (“an account of a journey, a road-book”), from iter (“a way, journey”); see itinerate, itinerant.

A written schedule of activities for a vacation or road trip.


churn

en-verb

churn (third-person singular simple present churns, present participle churning, simple past and past participle churned)

churns (present singular third-person)
churning (participle present)
churned (participle past)
churned (past)

Noun from Middle English chyrne, cherne, kyrne ( > Scots kirn), from Old English ċyrn, ċyrin, ċirin (“churn”), from Proto-Germanic *kirnijǭ (“churn”); verb from Middle English chyrnen from Old English ċernan, from Proto-Germanic *kirnijaną (“to churn, stir”), of unknown origin. Cognate with West Frisian tsjerne, Dutch karn, Walloon serene, German Karn, Kirne, Norwegian Bokmål kjerne, Danish kærne, Swedish kärna, Icelandic kirna.

der

(informal, travel, aviation) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.

(US, informal, finance, travel) To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.


DOJ

(travel, aviation) Initialism of double open jaw.


HBO

/ˌeɪtʃ ˌbiː ˈoʊ/

(aviation, travel) Initialism of hand baggage only. (fare type)


flight

en-noun

flight (countable and uncountable, plural flights)

From Middle English flight, from Old English flyht (“flight”), from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti (“flight”), derived from *fleuganą (“to fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). Analyzable as fly + -t (variant of -th).
Cognate with West Frisian flecht (“flight”), Dutch vlucht (“flight”), German Flucht (“flight”) (etymology 2).


mile

mile (plural miles or (UK colloquial) mile)

miles (plural)
mile (UK colloquial plural)

From Middle English myle, mile, from Old English mīl, from Proto-West Germanic *mīliju, a borrowing of Latin mīlia, mīllia, plural of mīle, mīlle (“mile”) (literally ‘thousand’ but used as a short form of mīlle passūs (“a thousand paces”)).

a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

give someone an inch and someone will take a mile

give them an inch and they'll take a mile

(travel) An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.


circuit

From Middle English circuit, from Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus (“a going round”), from circuire (“go round”), from circum (“around”) + ire. As a Chinese administrative division, a calque of Chinese 道 (dào) or 路 (lù).

piiri

Methodist Church: district in which an itinerant preacher labors

dao

Imperial Chinese administrative divisions

(historical) Various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China, including:

The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin.

The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan.

Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.


field trip

As I wrote we have a field trip scheduled (starting in about 1 hour to be exact since it's now 6 AM). We will take 72 of the second years to the coal mines, asbestos factory, steel mills in Enugu then up to Nnsuka.

2013, Eileen M. Jones, Letters From Nigeria: Experiences of a Peace Corps Volunteer, page 94

A trip, usually in a group and especially by students, to a place of special interest for education, research or exploration; a trip into the field.


visa

en-verb

visa (third-person singular simple present visas, present participle visaing, simple past and past participle visaed)

visas (present singular third-person)
visaing (participle present)
visaed (participle past)
visaed (past)

From 1831, "official signature or endorsement on a passport," from French visa, from Latin charta vīsa (“paper that has been seen”) from feminine perfect passive of Latin vidēre (“to see”). Compare vision, video, vista.

der

(transitive, dated) To endorse (a passport, etc.).


cruise

Borrowed from Dutch kruisen (“cross, sail around”), from kruis (“cross”), from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux.

He departed with the Naniwa and the Hashidate²⁰ for a two day cruise, skirting the Wuchiu and Hui Ch’uan Islands and the shore of Fukien Province.

1936, Edwin A. Falk, Togo and the Rise of Japanese Sea Power, Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 229

A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.


fare

en-noun

fare (countable and uncountable, plural fares)

From Middle English fare, from the merger of Old English fær (“journey, road”) and faru (“journey, companions, baggage”), from Proto-Germanic *farą and *farō (“journey, fare”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“a going, passage”).

der

General American, Mary–marry–merry merger

(obsolete) A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.

train fare

bus fare

taxi fare

(countable) Money paid for a transport ticket.

비(費) (bi) (suffix, attached to the name of transportation)


fare

en-verb

fare (third-person singular simple present fares, present participle faring, simple past fared, past participle fared or (archaic) faren)

fares (present singular third-person)
faring (participle present)
fared (past)
fared (participle past)
faren (archaic participle past)

From Middle English faren, from Old English faran (“to travel, journey”), from Proto-West Germanic *faran, from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“a going, passage”).
Cognate with West Frisian farre, Dutch varen (“to sail”), German fahren (“to travel”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål fare, Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic fara (“to go”) and Swedish fara (“to travel”).

inh

Behold! A knight fares forth.

Then he came down rejoicing and said, "I have seen what seemeth to be a city as 'twere a pigeon." Hereat we rejoiced and, ere an hour of the day had passed, the buildings showed plain in the offing and we asked the Captain, "What is the name of yonder city?" and he answered "By Allah I wot not, for I never saw it before and never sailed these seas in my life: but, since our troubles have ended in safety, remains for you only to land their with your merchandise and, if you find selling profitable, sell and make your market of what is there; and if not, we will rest here two days and provision ourselves and fare away.

1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 17


teleporter

(science fiction) A device used for teleporting.


direct

en-adj

direct (comparative more direct, superlative most direct)

more direct (comparative)
most direct (superlative)

/daɪ̯əˈɹɛkt/

Borrowed from Latin dīrectus, perfect passive participle of dīrigō (“straighten, direct”), from dis- (“asunder, in pieces, apart, in two”) + regō (“make straight, rule”). Compare dress. Doublet of derecho.
For the meaning development compare with Russian напра́вить (naprávitʹ, “to direct, to turn, to aim, to level, to point”), отпра́вить (otprávitʹ, “to send, to dispatch, to forward”) connected with пра́вить (právitʹ, “to govern, to rule, to drive, to steer”).

m+

(aviation, travel) Having a single flight number.


land

en-noun

land (countable and uncountable, plural lands)

From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).
Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), German Land (“land, country, state”), Norwegian and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”), Icelandic land (“land”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic лѧдо (lędo), from Proto-Slavic *lęda (“heath, wasteland”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).

cog

Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.

(travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.


passport

→ Hindi: पासपोर्ट (pāsporṭ)

→ Japanese: パスポート (pasupōto)

→ Korean: 패스포트 (paeseupoteu)

desc

→ Urdu: پاسْپورْٹ (pāsporṭ)

→ Urdu: پاسْپورْٹ (pāsporṭ)

From French passeport, from passer (“pass”) + port (“port”). Compare portpass. Equivalent to pass + port.

(by extension, informal) Any document that allows entry or passage.


TCP

(travel, aviation) Initialism of to complete party (followed by total number in group. Code used in OSI to advise an airline that other passengers are travelling with a person but are booked separately)


hostel

→ Hindi: हॉस्टल (hŏsṭal)

→ Japanese: ホステル (hosuteru)

→ Korean: 호스텔 (hoseutel)

→ Oromo: hosteela

From Middle English hostel, from Old French hostel, ostel, from Late Latin hospitale (“hospice”), from Classical Latin hospitalis (“hospitable”) itself from hospes (“host”) + -alis (“-al”). Doublet of hotel and hospital. Obsolete from the 16th to 18th centuries, until it was revived by Walter Scott.

(not US) A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.

օթեւան

a temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food


hotel

→ Amharic: ሆቴል (hotel)

→ Assamese: হোটেল (hütel)

→ Bengali: হোটেল (hōṭel)

→ Burmese: ဟိုတယ် (huitai)

→ Hindi: होटल (hoṭal)

→ Japanese: ホテル (hoteru)

→ Khmer: ហោតិល (haotəl)

→ Korean: 호텔 (hotel)

→ Maori: hōtēra

→ Nepali: होटल (hoṭal)

→ Oromo: hoteela

→ Persian: هوتَل (hôtal) (Dari)

→ Swahili: hoteli

→ Tamil: ஓட்டல் (ōṭṭal)

→ Tamil: ஓட்டல் (ōṭṭal)

→ Thai: โฮเต็ล (hoo-dtel)

→ Tigrinya: ሆቴል (hotel)

→ Tok Pisin: hotel

→ Ukrainian: готе́ль (hotélʹ)

→ Urdu: ہوٹل (hoṭal)

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel, from Late Latin hospitālis (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of hostel and hospital.

der

1868, "A Clergyman" (John Morison), Australia in 1866, page 165,
When gold-digging commenced in California, the writer was staying at an hotel in Wellington, New Zealand, where a Yankee trader was also staying. Seated at the dining-table, the latter was discoursing of the business he was doing […] .

Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.

2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28

An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain.


pedestrian

en-adj

pedestrian (comparative more pedestrian, superlative most pedestrian)

more pedestrian (comparative)
most pedestrian (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin pedester, root pedestri- (from pedes) + -an (suffix forming adjectives).

His manner of dress was pedestrian but tidy.

a pedestrian life

England were hugely impressive in the first half in particular, when their supporters inside this magnificent bowl at Stade Velodrome roared their approval as Russia were pressed into submission and made to look pedestrian.

2016 June 11, Phil McNulty, “England 1-1 Russia”, in BBC Sport

(comparable, figurative) Ordinary, dull; everyday; unexceptional.

The choreographer prefers pedestrian movements.

(dance) Pertaining to ordinary, everyday movements incorporated in postmodern dance.


pedestrian

voetganger

somebody walking rather than using a vehicle

A walker; one who walks or goes on foot, especially as opposed to one who uses a vehicle.

(dated) An expert or professional walker or runner; one who performs feats of walking or running.


honeymoon

desctree

→ French: lune de miel (calque)
→ German: Honigmond (calque)
→ Turkish: balayı (calque)

→ Spanish: luna de miel (calque)

From earlier hony moone, originally denoting the period of time following a wedding, equivalent to honey + moon. The original reference was to affection waning like the moon, but later the sense became "the first month, or moon after marriage", which tends to be the sweetest.
Compare Middle Low German suckermânt (“honeymoon”, literally “sugar-month”), German Low German Hönnigweken (“honeymoon”, literally “honey-weeks”). The German Honigmond (literally “honey-moon”) is a calque of French lune de miel, itself a calque of the English term.

cog

The period of time immediately following a marriage.


faster-than-light

en-adj

faster-than-light (comparative form only)

Faster-than-light drives use element zero cores to reduce the mass of a ship, allowing higher rates of acceleration. This effectively raises the speed of light within the mass effect field, allowing high speed travel with negligible relativistic time dilation effects.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: FTL Drive Codex entry

(physics) Faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, the theoretical speed limit for travel within the universe.


time travel

(chiefly science fiction) Travel to the past or the future, typically by means of a time machine or a wormhole.

viatge en el temps

hypothetical or fictional travel to the past or future


tachyon

Formed as: tachy- + -on, from ταχύς (takhús, “swift”, “rapid”).
Coined by American physicist Gerald Feinberg in 1967.

coin

(physics) A hypothetical particle that travels faster than the speed of light.


time machine

H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
Time Machine

Coined by H. G. Wells in his novel The Time Machine (1895).

If I had a time machine / And if life was a movie scene / I'd rewind, and I'd tell me / "Ru-u-u-u-u-u-u-un"

2014, Ingrid Michaelson, Trent Dabbs, busbee (lyrics and music), “Time Machine”, in Lights Out, performed by Ingrid Michaelson

(chiefly science fiction) A hypothetical device used to travel into the past or the future.


wormhole

1590s. From worm + hole. In the scientific sense, introduced by John Archibald Wheeler in 1957.

[…]where there is a net flux of lines of force, through what topologists would call "a handle" of the multiply-connected space, and what physicists might perhaps be excused for more vividly terming a "wormhole".

1957 December, Charles W. Misner, John Archibald Wheeler, “Classical Physics as Geometry”, in Annals of Physics, volume 2, number 6, pages 525–603

Wormhole distortion has overloaded main power systems!

1979, Alan Dean Foster, Harold Livingston, directed by Robert Wise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, spoken by Commander Willard Decker (Stephen Collins)

I think the wormhole that we used to travel here passed directly through this planet's sun.

2001, Ron Wilkerson, “Red Sky”, in Martin Wood, director, Stargate SG-1, season 5, episode 5, spoken by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping)

(relativity) A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel.

ثَقْب دُودِيّ

a shortcut between distant parts of space


museology

en-noun

museology (countable and uncountable, plural museologies)

The design, organization, and management of museums.

թանգարանագիտություն

design, organization and management of museums


inn

From Middle English in, inn, from Old English inn (“a dwelling, house, chamber, lodging”); akin to Icelandic inni (“a dwelling place, home, abode”), Faroese inni (“home”).

cog

the Inns of Court    the Inns of Chancery    Serjeants’ Inns

One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.


ET

en-noun

ET (countable and uncountable, plural ETs)

(travel, aviation) Initialism of electronic ticket.

(travel, aviation, reservation system) End transaction, end of transaction (with transaction meaning an amendment in the reservation system in this sense).


voyage

From Middle English viage, borrowed from Anglo-Norman viage and Old French voiage, from Latin viaticum. The modern spelling is under the influence of Modern French voyage. Doublet of viaticum.

"And as their valour, so you trow, defied
on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore,
so many changing skies their manhood tried,
such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"

1880, Richard Francis Burton, The Lusiads, volume I, translation of Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões, page 23

I cannot learn what his Name was, unleſs by the Inſcription of the Letters he ſent to the Pope, and to the French King in the Year 1688, mentioned in the ſecond Voyage of Father Tachard […]

1690, “The Preface to the Reader”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page v

By the various Relations, Embaſſies and Voyages of Siam that have been publiſht within theſe laſt Four Years […]

1690, “A Relation of the Late Great Revolution in Siam, and the Driving Out of the French”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page 1

(archaic) A written account of a journey or travel.

(obsolete) The act or practice of travelling.


voyage

en-verb

voyage (third-person singular simple present voyages, present participle voyaging, simple past and past participle voyaged)

voyages (present singular third-person)
voyaging (participle present)
voyaged (participle past)
voyaged (past)
voyage (infinitive)

A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.


protect

protect (third-person singular simple present protects, present participle protecting, simple past and past participle protected)

protects (present singular third-person)
protecting (participle present)
protected (participle past)
protected (past)

Attested in English since 1530, from Latin prōtēctus (“covered, protected”), past participle of prōtegere (“to cover the front, protect”) from prō, prō- (“before, in front of”) + tegere (“to cover”), see tegument. Displaced native Middle English shelden, from Old English sċildan (“to protect,” literally “to shield”).

affix

(travel, aviation) To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight.


aerophobia

Many first-time flyers suffer from aerophobia, though some hide it better than others.


motel

Blend of motor + hotel, from the original Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo in California, USA, established in 1925 by Arthur Heineman (1878–1974).

(also attributive) A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms the entrances of which are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to automobiles parked there.

A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.


motel

en-verb

motel (third-person singular simple present motels, present participle moteling or motelling, simple past and past participle moteled or motelled)

motels (present singular third-person)
moteling (participle present)
motelling (participle present)
moteled (participle past)
moteled (past)
motelled (participle past)
motelled (past)

(informal, intransitive) To stay in a motel or motels.


ansible

Coined by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin in 1966 in her novella Rocannon's World; Le Guin states that she derived it from answerable. The word was further spread by its adoption into other science fiction worlds, including by Orson Scott Card in Ender's Game (1986), Vernor Vinge in The Blabber (1988) and Dan Simmons in Hyperion (1989).

coin

“You remember the ansible, the machine I showed you in the ship, which can speak instantly to other worlds, with no loss of years– […] ”
“An ansible would theoretically be powered by subatomic particles that have undergone quantum entanglement, which utilizes Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance', allowing the alteration of one particle to instantaneously alter the state of its paired particle. […] ”

1966, Ursula K. Le Guin, Rocannon's World, reprinted in Worlds of Exile and Illusion, Macmillan (1996), page 25

[…] The master ansible is there, in contact with all our invasion fleet; the ships are all working, ready to fight. […]

1985, Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, reprinted by Macmillan, published 2002, page 251

Ky had allotted two hours here, time to strip the news from the ansible, share it, even discuss it, but she didn’t plan to have everyone clustered and vulnerable.

2008, Elizabeth Moon, Victory Conditions, reprint by Random House, published 2009, page 39

(science fiction) A hypothetical device that enables users to communicate instantaneously across great distances; that is, a faster-than-light communication device.

Dan Simmons
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Rocannon's World
Vernor Vinge


jet set

(idiomatic) A social class of wealthy people who travel for pleasure.


pension

table
From French pension, from Old French pencion, as etymology 1 above. Doublet of pensione.

A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes not

1978, John Irving, The World According to Garp

A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services.


fam trip

(UK, aviation, travel) A free (or low cost) trip for travel agents or consultants, provided by a travel operator or airline as a means of promoting their service.


minimum connecting time

en-noun

minimum connecting time (plural minimum connecting times)

(aviation, travel) The amount of time, agreed in advance between airlines and airport authorities, that is considered sufficient for a passenger to make a connection between an arriving flight and a departing flight on the same ticket.


ecotourism

ecotourism (usually uncountable, plural ecotourisms)

/ˌiːkəʊˈtʊəɹɪz(ə)m/

/ˌɛkoʊˈtʊɹɪzəm/

Driven by a search for the perfectly "grammable" shot, ecotourism is everywhere on the rise, though it rarely delivers on the promise of its name, which is to reconcile the impulse to consume nature with the desire to conserve it.

2020 August 24, Amia Srinivasan, “What Have We Done to the Whale?”, in The New Yorker

Responsible (sustainable) travel to natural areas supporting the fauna, flora, and local economy.


standby

standby (countable and uncountable, plural standbys)

(travel) Waiting at the airport in the hope of getting a seat on a flight that is already booked out.

waiting at the airport in the hope of getting a seat on a flight that is already booked out

lefoglalt, de üres/betöltetlen helyre várakozás repülőtéren


tourist trap

As for Will Deverill, less critical of Nature’s handicraft, he found the inns over-civilised; the Post and the Bräu were too fine for his taste: they had come thus far in search of solitude and Alpine wilds, and they lighted instead on a sort of miniature Grindelwald, with half-a-dozen inns, a respectable café, experienced (or in other words extortionate) guides, and a regular tourist-trap for the sale of chamois-horns and carved models of châlets.

For fifteen minutes they walked morosely and in silence through the steep streets where the shops are tourist-traps, alluringly baited with corals and trinkets.

1911, Charles Neville Buck, chapter XX, in The Lighted Match

(derogatory) An establishment, such as a shop or display, where tourists are encouraged to spend money on goods or services not necessarily of good value.

toeristenval

establishment encouraging tourists to spend money


tourist

en-verb

tourist (third-person singular simple present tourists, present participle touristing, simple past and past participle touristed)

tourists (present singular third-person)
touristing (participle present)
touristed (participle past)
touristed (past)

“You can’t go touristing anymore like you used to, but weekends away — traditionally crammed into sneaking out of work slightly early on a Friday in a dash to have some repose — now mean heading out on a Wednesday night, logging on to work and coming back Monday night,” said Tom Caton, the co-founder and chief revenue officer of AirDNA […]

2020 November 4, Sarah Firshein, “Forget Long Weekends: During the Pandemic It’s All About Short Weeks”, in The New York Times


hyper

en-noun

hyper (countable and uncountable, plural hypers)

Shortenings, ultimately from the prefix hyper-.

(uncountable, science fiction, informal) Clipping of hyperspace.


gallery

From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, from Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), perhaps an alteration of galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Palestine. More at Galilee.


museum

en-verb

museum (third-person singular simple present museums, present participle museuming, simple past and past participle museumed)

museums (present singular third-person)
museuming (participle present)
museumed (participle past)
museumed (past)

From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)).

I told her I'd do just one visit to start; I don't really have time to do a lot of museuming.

2014, Robin Reardon, Educating Simon, page 212

(intransitive, colloquial) To visit museums.


PNR

(travel, aviation) Initialism of passenger name record: the complete details of a passenger's booking, including itinerary, contact details, and special requests; or the unique alphanumeric identifier for each booking.


emmet

From Middle English emete, from Old English ǣmete, (bef. 12c) Doublet of ant.


suspend

suspend (third-person singular simple present suspends, present participle suspending, simple past and past participle suspended)

suspends (present singular third-person)
suspending (participle present)
suspended (participle past)
suspended (past)

resume

antonym(s) of “to halt something temporarily, to discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event”

From Old French sospendre, from Latin suspendere.

(travel, aviation) To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.


Tower of London

A riverside fortress in London, used as a palace, a prison and now a museum housing the Crown Jewels.


blink

blink (third-person singular simple present blinks, present participle blinking, simple past and past participle blinked)

blinks (present singular third-person)
blinking (participle present)
blinked (participle past)
blinked (past)

From Middle English blynken, blenken, from Old English blincan (suggested by causative verb blenċan (“to deceive”); > English blench), from Proto-Germanic *blinkaną, a variant of *blīkaną (“to gleam, shine”).
Cognate with Dutch blinken (“to glitter, shine”), German blinken (“to flash, blink”), Danish blinke (“to flash, twinkle, wink, blink”), Swedish blinka (“to flash, blink, twinkle, wink, blink”). Related to blank, blick, blike, bleak.

blikat

to flash on and off at regular intervals

(science fiction, video games) To teleport, mostly for short distances.


hyperspace

en-noun

hyperspace (countable and uncountable, plural hyperspaces)

(mathematics) An n-dimensional Euclidian space with n > 3.

(mathematics) A Euclidian space of unspecified dimension.

We can only get to the Nimrodian Galaxy if we go through hyperspace.

I'm in command of 18 competitively selected super-perfect physical specimens with an average age of 24.6 who have been locked up in hyperspace for 378 days.

1956, Cyril Hume, Forbidden Planet, spoken by Commander Adams (Leslie Nielsen)

(science fiction) A notional space orthogonal to the usual dimensions of space-time often used for faster-than-light travel.


hyperspace

en-verb

hyperspace (third-person singular simple present hyperspaces, present participle hyperspacing, simple past and past participle hyperspaced)

hyperspaces (present singular third-person)
hyperspacing (participle present)
hyperspaced (participle past)
hyperspaced (past)

If she hyperspaced out to Tionisla or Lave the Courier would simply follow through her witchspace wormhole.

2010, Drew Wagar, Status Quo (Oolite Saga), Drew Wagar

(science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To travel or transport into hyperspace.


direct flight

(travel) A flight in which the passenger makes intermediate stops but does not change aircraft.


MCO

(travel, aviation, dated) Initialism of miscellaneous charge order.


warp

warp (third-person singular simple present warps, present participle warping, simple past and past participle warped)

warps (present singular third-person)
warping (participle present)
warped (participle past)
warped (past)

→ Japanese: ワープ (wāpu)

From Middle English werpen, weorpen, worpen, from Old English weorpan (“to throw”), from Proto-Germanic *werpaną (“to throw, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend, turn”). Cognate with Scots warp (“to throw, warp”), North Frisian werpen (“to throw”), Dutch werpen (“to throw, cast”), German werfen (“to throw, cast”), Icelandic verpa (“to throw”).

der

Then we warp a ball of atmosphere right out of the sky into the domes, and some fruit trees to go with them, and we also abduct some livestock.

Valerie asked why they couldn't warp to the planet.

2012, Jonathan Henry, The Revelation of Earth: First Contact, page 188

(transitive, intransitive, science fiction) To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.


bed and breakfast

en-noun

bed and breakfast (plural bed and breakfasts)

→ Danish: bed and breakfast c

→ Dutch: bed and breakfast n

→ French: bed and breakfast m

→ German: Bed and Breakfast n

→ Italian: bed and breakfast m

desc

ベッド・アンド・ブレックファスト

→ Japanese: ベッド・アンド・ブレックファスト (beddo ando burekkufasuto)

→ Spanish: bed and breakfast m

→ Swedish: bed-and-breakfast n

From bed + breakfast, from having a bed for the night and breakfast in the morning on offer.

A private home, guesthouse, small hotel etc. where guests are provided overnight accommodations and served breakfast but usually no other meals.

«крова́ть и за́втрак» («krovátʹ i závtrak») (literal translation)


round trip

From round (“complete, entire"; "forming a circle or cycle”) + trip (“journey”).

compound

Margaret purchased a single round trip ticket to and from Chicago, as it was cheaper than buying two one-way tickets.

The fare for this sightseeing tour of London is about 1s., but it is necessary to rebook at least once, as through tickets are not issued for the round trip.

1950 July, J. G. Gibbons, “Sightseeing on the Inner Circle”, in Railway Magazine, page 485

(often figurative, travel) A trip from one destination to another and then returning to the starting location.

ذهاب وعودة

a trip from one destination to another and then returning to the starting location


tourism

en-noun

tourism (usually uncountable, plural tourisms)

→ French: tourisme (see there for further descendants)

Mass tourism damaged the beach.

The act of travelling or sightseeing, particularly away from one's home.


one-way ticket

(travel) A ticket granting permission to travel to a place but not return.

單程票

a ticket granting permission to travel to a place but not back


transporter

(science fiction) A device that instantaneously transports, or teleports, a person or object.


junket

en-verb

junket (third-person singular simple present junkets, present participle junketing or junketting, simple past and past participle junketed or junketted)

junkets (present singular third-person)
junketing (participle present)
junketting (participle present)
junketed (participle past)
junketed (past)
junketted (participle past)
junketted (past)

From Middle English jonket (“basket made of rushes; food, probably made of sour milk or cream; banquet, feast.”), from Medieval Latin iuncta, possibly from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”) and therefore a possible doublet of jonquil.
Meaning shifted to "feast or banquet" by 1520s, probably via the notion of a picnic basket. This in turn led to the sense of "pleasure-trip" (1814), and then to specifically to "trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment" by 1886 in American English.

der

Together they made trips to town or junketed over the country in search of furniture and dishes of which Miss Sally had heard.

1910, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Miss Sally’s Letter

It is only by much junketing about that one comes to the full realization of what men and women in the main are doing in this country. One learns as he passes from town to town, through cities and across plains, that the general reason for industry everywhere is to get the means to build and support a home.

1921, Ida Tarbell, “The Socialization of the Home”, in The Business of Being a Woman, New York: Macmillan

It was her belief that the summer folk went junketing off with the first fall of autumn leaves, leaving their cats to starve.

1943, Patrick Quentin, “The Last of Mrs. Maybrick”, in Marc Gerald, editor, Murder Plus: True Crime Stories from the Masters of Detective Fiction, New York: Pharos, published 1992, page 214

On the boat I met an old art history professor, with whom I junketed around for a while, visiting museums in London and Paris […]

1985, Herman Wouk, chapter 81, in Inside, Outside, New York: Avon, published 1986, page 549

(intransitive) To go on a junket; to travel.


kk

(aviation, travel) confirm (originally a GDS status code, now often used as shorthand).


cabin

→ French: cabine (see there for further descendants)

→ Japanese: キャビン (kyabin)

→ Korean: 캐빈 (kaebin)

From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (“a cabin”); see further etymology there. Doublet of cabana and cabane.

(travel, aviation) The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.

сало́н

section of passenger plane having same class of service


FOP

en-noun

FOP (countable and uncountable, plural FOPs)

(aviation, travel) Initialism of form of payment.


FCC

(travel, cruising) Abbreviation of future cruise credit.


uplift

en-verb

uplift (third-person singular simple present uplifts, present participle uplifting, simple past and past participle uplifted)

uplifts (present singular third-person)
uplifting (participle present)
uplifted (participle past)
uplifted (past)

извисявам

to raise something or someone to a higher level

(aviation, travel) To be accepted for carriage on a flight.


DMC

en-noun

DMC (countable and uncountable, plural DMCs)

destination management
w:destination management

(tourism) Initialism of destination management company.


TPM

TPM (countable and uncountable, plural TPMs)

ticket point mileage
ticket point mileage#English

(aviation, travel) Initialism of ticket point mileage.


TD

TD (countable and uncountable, plural TDs)

ticket designator
ticket designator#English

(travel) Initialism of ticket designator.


TARDIS

Coined in 1963 for the British science-fiction programme Doctor Who; said to stand for "Time and Relative Dimension(s) in Space".

'While I was in the Rani's TARDIS, I made an adjustment or two.' He chuckled, remembering the occasion.

1986, Pip & Jane Baker, chapter 19, in The Mark of the Rani, page 129

The Master's essence escapes his funeral urn and lands the TARDIS in San Francisco on December 30, 1999.

2000, Fraser A. Sherman, Cyborgs, Santa Claus, and Satan, page 57

I want the ground to swallow me up. I want to hide in a corner, curl up, and weep, sucking my thumb. I want the TARDIS to appear and take me away.

2004, Will Hadcroft, The Feeling's Unmutual: Growing up with Asperger Syndrome (Undiagnosed), page 16

The time machine and spacecraft used by the Doctor in the British sci-fi television series Doctor Who, which is larger on the inside than its exterior (that of a British police box) suggests, or any of the conceptually similar time machines used by other members of the Doctor's race, the Time Lords.


TARDIS

This unassuming Georgian terrace house, located within five minutes walk of the busy commercial and tourist heart of Bath in Somerset, is like a veritable TARDIS of astronomical history and discovery, with more to see on the inside than its [exterior suggests].

2008, in Astronomy Now, volume 22, issues 7–12, page 36

Alternative form of Tardis (something which resembles the bigger-on-the-inside time machine from the series Doctor Who).


quantum teleportation

quantum teleportation (usually uncountable, plural quantum teleportations)

quantum entanglement
quantum entanglement

(quantum mechanics) the instantaneous transference of a quantum state to a distant location using quantum entanglement and the transmission of classical information


quantum entanglement

quantum entanglement (countable and uncountable, plural quantum entanglements)

(quantum mechanics) A quantum mechanical phenomenon in which the quantum states of two or more objects have to be described with reference to each other, even though the individual objects are spatially separated.

ക്വാണ്ടം എൻടാംഗിൾമെന്റ്

kvāṇṭaṁ eṉṭāṅgiḷmenṟŭ


teleportation

Coined by Charles Fort in his 1931 book Lo! from tele- + transportation.

Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one spatial point to another without physically crossing the space in between and which are often depicted or described as happening instantaneously, and through dematerialization or gateways.

إِنْتِقَال آنِي

process of moving matter from one point to another


TCA

TCA (countable and uncountable, plural TCAs)

traffic conference area
traffic conference area#English

(aviation, travel) Initialism of traffic conference area.


passer-by

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When he tripped and fell in the street, several kind passers-by helped him up.

A person who is passing by (that is, walking past).


auberge

Borrowed from French auberge. The term is attested in the fifteenth century as auberge, a loan from a term attested in eleventh century Old Occitan alberga (“camp, hut”), derived from albergar (“to host”). The term originated in Frankish *harjabergu, composed of the elements *harjaz (“army”) (compare German Heer) and *berganą (“to shelter, to protect”), whence German bergen. Doublet of harbour.


chronoscope

/ˈkɹɒnəˌskəʊp/

(science fiction) A device able to directly view other times, past or future.


tachyonic

en-adj

tachyonic (comparative more tachyonic, superlative most tachyonic)

more tachyonic (comparative)
most tachyonic (superlative)

Of or relating to a tachyon or tachyons.


CTC

(rail transport) Initialism of Centralized Traffic Control.


bucket shop

(travel, dated) A travel agency selling discounted airfares, usually in defiance of existing minimum fare arrangements. Now usually refers to any small cheap agency.


third class

en-noun

third class (countable and uncountable, plural third classes)

(US) A reduced-rate mail service for printed matter.


hyperspace drive

hyperspace drive (plural hyperspace drives)

a hypothetical propulsion system for spacecraft that would "warp" spacetime


grockle

The origin of the word is uncertain. A derivation has been suggested from the eponymous dragon-like creature in the obsolete The Dandy comic strip "Jimmy and his Grockle", based on an earlier strip, "Jimmy Johnson's Grockle", in The Rover comic in the 1920s, somehow leading to use in the present sense in the movie The System (1964). It is doubtful that the word's use in the West of England goes back farther than that.
Eric Partridge's A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English also refers to the film The System but suggests another derivation, that holiday visitors in Torbay were compared to little clowns, and Grock (1880–1959) was a famous clown at the time.
A more straightforward derivation is 'grackle' an old term for the jackdaw, from the Latin graculus. It is apposite when considering large numbers of visitors noisily flocking to their holiday destinations.

The grockles were not well served on the Marina of late.

2009, Guy Adams, chapter 1, in Torchwood: The House that Jack Built

(slang, British, various parts of the West Country) A tourist from elsewhere in the country

beauty spot which acts to stop tourists finding other local spots

similar term used by residents of the Isle of Wight used more to refer to non-natives who have moved to the island to live


time warp

But as the reports on the Bild investigation suggest, the company’s workplace culture may be stuck in a time warp.

2021 October 17, Ben Smith, “At Axel Springer, Politico’s New Owner, Allegations of Sex, Lies and a Secret Payment”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(science fiction) A hypothetical discontinuity in the flow of time that would uncausally move events from one time period to another.

(video games) Acceleration of in-game time relative to real-world time.


time warp

en-verb

time warp (third-person singular simple present time warps, present participle time warping, simple past and past participle time warped)

time warps (present singular third-person)
time warping (participle present)
time warped (participle past)
time warped (past)

(science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To travel through time in such a manner.

(intransitive) To perform the time warp dance.


travel agency

A company that arranges travel and accommodation for travellers.


implant

From Middle French implanter, from Latin implantō.

(travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively dealing with that client.


offload

offload (third-person singular simple present offloads, present participle offloading, simple past and past participle offloaded)

offloads (present singular third-person)
offloading (participle present)
offloaded (participle past)
offloaded (past)

(transitive, aviation, travel) to deny a person on a standby list due to lack of space.

(transitive, aviation, travel) to change a passengers' ticket status from "checked in" to "open", allowing further changes. (This applies regardless of whether the passenger has boarded the aircraft or not).


periplus

en-noun

periplus (plural peripluses or peripli or periploi)

peripluses (plural)
peripli (plural)
periploi (plural)

/ˈpɛɹɪˌplʌs/

From Latin periplūs (“account of a voyage”) and Ancient Greek περίπλους (períplous, “voyage, naval manouver, account of a voyage”), from περί (perí, “peri-: around”) + πλοῦς (ploûs, “voyage”), from πλεῖν (pleîn, “to swim”). Cf. French périple, Spanish periplo, & Italian periplo.

der

Then follows a Periplus of the Euxine-Sea, which bears the name of Arrian, and was undoubtedly written by him in the time of Adrian, as the inſcription ſhews.

1738, Pierre Bayle, John Peter Bernard, Thomas Birch, John Lockman [et al.], “Hudson (Dr. John)”, in A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical, volume VI, London: Printed by James Bettenham, for G. Strahan, J. Clarke [et al.], →OCLC, page 300, footnote B

The Periplûs of the Erythrêan Sea is the title prefixed to a work which contains the beſt account of the commerce carried on from the Red Sea and the coaſt of Africa to the Eaſt Indies, during the time that Egypt was a province of the Roman Empire.

1800, William Vincent, The Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, volume I, London: Printed by Andrew Strahan, Printers Street; for Thomas Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies […], →OCLC, page 3

Another great source of geographical information both for the ancients themselves and, so far as they still exist, for us also, are the Peripli (περίπλοι), that is, descriptions of the coasts of certain seas, in which the towns, ports, and promontories are enumerated, and often with their distances from one another. These peripli were drawn up for the guidance of sailors who had occasion to visit these seas for commercial and other purposes.

1859, Leonhard Schmitz, “Period of Historical Geography, from about B.C. 450, the Age of Herodotus, down to B.C. 276, or the Time of Eratosthenes”, in A Manual of Ancient Geography … With a Map Showing the Retreat of the 10,000 Greeks under Xenophon, Philadelphia, Pa.: Blanchard and Lea, →OCLC, page 25

[…] the map of the world Ptolemy followed in his geography, finding the longitude that passed through the Gates of Herakles and the island of Rhodes, and placing north and south of it the world as recorded on the periploi of the Phoenician merchants.

1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!: Six Stories, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons

A periplus of the Mediterranean: Greek sailing directions The following excerpt from one of the most complete periploi was attributed in the nineteenth century to the Greek merchant Scylax of Caryanda, known to have traded with settlements not only along the Red Sea but also on the shores of the Indian Ocean.

1978, “Periplus and Periegesis: Greek Maritime Writings”, in George Kish, editor, A Source Book in Geography (Source Books in the History of the Sciences), Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press, page 24

Listing cities along a coast, periploi gave details about sailing conditions, harbors, what the area imported or exported, what tariffs to expect, whether the people were friendly or not, and what noteworthy landmarks and marvels (mirabilia) one might expect to see. Hanno, whose periplus of Africa (circa 480 bce) was aborted when supplies ran out, described strange peoples and animals, including Trogodytes clad in animal skins and wild men, called "gorillas."

2016, Georgia Lynette Irby, “Greek and Roman Cartography”, in Georgia L. Irby, editor, A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome, volume II, Chichester, West Sussex, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, page 827

(literature) An account of a voyage, particularly those of Hanno and Arrian, recording ports and coastal landmarks.

In the great Ocean, California, its gulph, and the Vermilion Sea were known to Cortes; Cabrillo proceeded along the coast of New California as far as the 43d degree of north latitude; Galbi advanced to the 57th degree. Amidst so many real peripluses, Maldonado, Juan de Fuca, and Admiral de Fonte, placed their chimerical voyages.

1828, François-René de Chateaubriand, “Preface”, in Travels in America and Italy..., volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 39

On the spot where he [Sebastian Cabot] landed he planted a large cross, with the flags of England and of St. Mark, and took possession for the King of England. If the statement be true that he coasted three hundred leagues, he may have made a periplus of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, returning home through the Straits of Belle Isle.

1884, Charles Deane, “The Voyages of the Cabots”, in Justin Winsor, editor, Narrative and Critical History of America, volume III, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, →OCLC, page 2

Yes sir, I have seen vessels leaving there for distant peripluses – yes yes: peripluses. Some were going to the poles, and others to the antipodes. Whereas I – I have never even set foot on the boat that goes over the estuary to Trouville.

1978, Raymond Queneau, edited by Michael Edwards, Raymond Queneau (Prospice; 8), Portree, Isle of Skye: Aquila Pub. Co., →ISSN, page 12

All the four books and the photograph are, in various degrees of literality or metaphoricity, about a periplus, the circumnavigation of an entire world, be that Homer's Mediterranean, Dante's hell, purgatory and paradise, Joyce's Dublin, or the cosmos of The Cantos, stretching across all the continents and all periods of history, and they are, therefore, the logbook accounts of such a periplus.

1997, Manfred Pfister, “‘Sailing after Knowledge’: The Logbook Aesthetics of Pound's Cantos”, in Andreas Fischer, Martin Heusser, Thomas Herrmann, editors, Aspects of Modernism: Studies in Honour of Max Nänny, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, page 98

(uncommon) Synonym of circumnavigation: a voyage around an island or the world.


nonstop

With business-class seats on nonstops from British Airways and Cathay Pacific often priced up to $8,000 round trip, Mr. Exton typically flew cheaper alternatives that saved money but required layovers and plane switches.

2007 October 14, David Kaufman, “Discounters Are In for the Long Hauls”, in New York Times

(travel) A nonstop journey, especially a nonstop flight.


landside

I had to remain landside because I did not have a boarding card.

In the freely-accessible area of an airport, outside of security, passport/immigration, and customs control.


landside

The freely-accessible area of an airport, outside of security, passport/immigration, and customs control.


airside

When I was airside, I browsed the duty-free shops.

In the passenger-only area of an airport, beyond security, passport and immigration, and customs controls.


airside

You have to go through security to go airside.

Into the passenger-only area of an airport, beyond security, passport and immigration, and customs controls.


airside

A passenger-only area of an airport, beyond security, passport and immigration, and customs controls.


causality

en-noun

causality (countable and uncountable, plural causalities)

[kʰɒːˈz̥æl.ɪ.tɪ]

From Latin as if *causalitas, from causalis (“causal”), from causa (“cause”). By surface analysis, causal + -ity = cause + -ality.

The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.

But how do transformations like the evolution of language take place? A scientist looks for a cause inside time; a mystic knows that causality is essentially a process that is outside time-space.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 94

But some discussion of the complex relationship between “allohistory” and sf is appropriate here, as the genres overlap in certain ways. Classical allohistory— such as Trevelyan's "What if Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo?" and Churchill's "If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg" —is a rigorously consistent thought-experiment in historical causality.

2011 February 1, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press, pages 102–103

The relationship between something that happens or exists and the thing that causes it; the cause and consequence relationship.


guesthouse

Japanese: ゲストハウス (gesutohausu)

Korean: 게스트하우스 (geseuteuhauseu)

From Middle English gest hous, gistenehus, gystehuse, gesthus, partly from Old English gæsthūs, ġesthūs (“guesthouse, hostel; guest-chamber”), from Proto-West Germanic *gastihūs; and partly from Old Norse gesthús (“guesthouse; guest-chamber”); both from Proto-Germanic *gastihūsą, corresponding to guest + house.

der

A private house offering accommodation to paying guests; a boarding house; a bed and breakfast.


FTL

en-noun

FTL (countable and uncountable, plural FTLs)

They had been slowly trailing the freighter for over a week, waiting for the ship to drop out of FTL.

2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 19

(science fiction) Initialism of faster-than-light.


CASM

(travel) Acronym of cost per available seat-mile: a method of calculating operating costs in the travel industry. It is derived by dividing total operating expenses by total ASMs.


planetarium

planetarium (plural planetariums or planetaria)

planetariums (plural)
planetaria (plural)

/plænɪˈtɛəɹɪəm/

Borrowed from New Latin planētārium. Equivalent to planet + -arium.

A display museum in which images of stars and other astronomical phenomena are projected onto a domed ceiling.


cutline

If you stop and get out, you will see a cutline for line-of-sight surveying.

(surveying, travel) A linear cleared area through undeveloped land.


caravanserai

/ˌkæɹəˈvænsəɹaɪ/

/ˌkɛɹəˈvænsəˌɹaɪ/

Borrowed:
* from Middle French carvansera, carvassera (modern French caravansérail, carauanserrail (obsolete), caravansara (obsolete)); or
* directly from its etymon Ottoman Turkish كاروانسَرای (karvanseray), كَروانسَرای (kervanseray) (modern Turkish kervansaray), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (kārvān-serā); or
* directly from its etymon Persian کاروانسرای (kârvânsarây), from کاروان (kârvân, “caravan; convoy”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“army”)) + سرای (sarây, “courtyard, hall; dwelling, house; inn; mansion, palace”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (“to cross over; to pass through; to overcome”).
cognates
* Dutch karavanserai, carewansera (obsolete)
* German Karawanserei, Caravansera (obsolete)
* Italian caravanserraglio, carvasarà (obsolete), carvanserà (obsolete)
* Portuguese caravançará, caravançarai
* Spanish caravasar

der

Eight days later, after leaving the desert and riding through neatly tended villages and snow-capped mountain scenery, he arrived there, hiring himself a room in a caravanserai near the bazaar.

1990, Peter Hopkirk, “Rehearsal for the Great Game”, in The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia, London: John Murray, published 1991, page 52

[page 80] Research over the last thirty-five years suggests that further research is likely to increase the number of known caravanserais in a good state of preservation. Unfortunately the majority of the caravanserais either had no founding inscription or it has since disappeared, and of the ones that do exist not all mention the type of building. […] [page 81] Caravanserais served caravans, but they also had a multitude of other functions. It is generally agreed that they continued the function of the ribats in Transoxania, and therefore it is taken for granted that they had military uses.

1997, Ayṣil Tükel Yavuz, “The Concepts that Shape Anatolian Seljuq Caravanserais”, in Gülru Necipoğlu, editor, Muqarnas XIV: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, volume XIV, Leiden: E[vert] J[an] Brill, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 80 and 81

(chiefly historical) A roadside inn, usually having a central courtyard where caravans (see sense 3) can rest, providing accommodation for travellers along trade routes in Asia and North Africa.

karvanserai

roadside inn usually having a central courtyard where caravans can rest


nonrev

Short for nonrevenue, as they do not pay for their tickets.

(aviation, travel, informal) Pertaining to nonrevenue travel taken by airline employees.


nonrev

(aviation, travel, informal) An airline employee flying as a passenger.


full board

(travel) A hotel rate that includes accommodation, breakfast, lunch and dinner.


half board

en-noun

half board (countable and uncountable, plural half boards)

(uncountable, travel) A hotel rate that includes accommodation, breakfast and dinner, but no meal at lunchtime.


hypermobility

hypermobility (usually uncountable, plural hypermobilities)

An excess amount of elasticity in a bodily joint

hypermobilita

an excess amount of elasticity in a bodily joint

The practice of taking frequent trips, usually by air.


backhaul

backhaul (countable and uncountable, plural backhauls)

higher intermediate point
higher intermediate point

(travel, aviation, fare construction) Travel to a destination via a further point, or a higher fare point, than the destination (higher intermediate point).


apparate

en-verb

apparate (third-person singular simple present apparates, present participle apparating, simple past and past participle apparated)

apparates (present singular third-person)
apparating (participle present)
apparated (participle past)
apparated (past)

From Late Latin apparēre (“to appear”), as of a servant who appears on being summoned. A back-formation from apparition.

"Reivers!" he bellowed. His valet appeared — or really, it seemed rather more like he apparated — in the doorway.

2004, Julia Quinn, When He Was Wicked, page 105

What had silenced her, however, was the enormous demonic object that had apparated in the air beyond the tunnel's exit.

2005, Matthew Reilly, Scarecrow, page 115

if it is an emergency, I will be able to apparate directly to wherever you are and help you.

2008, P. L. Lansdon, Dreams of Dragons and Fantasies of Fairy Flight and Light: Book One, page 254

(fantasy, intransitive) To appear magically; to teleport to or from a place.


Louvre

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-Louvre.wav

Borrowed from French Louvre. More at Louvre Palace.

God above, this man was as chiseled as the statues she'd spied in the Louvre.

2011, Tara Kingston, Claimed by the Spymaster, page 68

I don't care if your split, power or squat position looks like it should be in the Louvre, you won't jerk a thing.

2010, Don McCauley, Power Trip: A Guide to Weightlifting for Coaches, Athletes and Parents, page 130

I preferred the Dutch apple pie, and my waitress for those few years had legs that belonged in the Louvre.

2006, Ted Nelson Lundrigan, Bob White, A Bird in the Hand, page 85

IF YOU ARE a young Joe DiMaggio or Mickey Mantle with a swing that belongs in the Louvre, somebody might get the idea you could win a batting title, even if it was only your second year with the New York Yankees.

1985 February, Phil Elderkin, “Don Mattingly: A.L. Batting Champion, A Born Hitter”, in Baseball Digest, volume 44, number 2, page 49

For purposes of illustrating a lecture on calisthenics, a stick figure is a better picture of a squatting man than something from the Louvre.

1960, Thomas Felix Staton, How to Instruct Successfully: Modern Teaching Methods in Adult Education, page 172

They are cries which show that every one has his own place, and should stay in it, — M. de Guise in the streets, and you in the Louvre. Go to the Louvre, Sire; go to the Louvre.

1889, Alexandre Dumas, Dame de Monsoreau: Volume 1, page 319

A famous art museum and former royal palace in Paris, France.


CRS

en-noun

CRS (countable and uncountable, plural CRSs)

central reservation system
w:central reservation system

computer reservation system
w:computer reservation system

(computing, aviation, travel) Initialism of central reservation system or computer reservation system.


travelogue

Supposedly a blend of travel + monologue, coined by Elias Burton Holmes.

During this period, and especially in Russia, the travelogue becomes a hybrid genre comprising elements of poetry, prose, and the drama.

2012, R.K. Wilson, The Literary Travelogue: A Comparative Study with Special Relevance to Russian Literature from Fonvizin to Pushkin, Springer Science & Business Media

The Road to Oxiana is a travelogue by Robert Byron, first published in 1937. It is considered by many modern travel writers to be the first example of great travel writing.

2016, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotated, MarcoPolo

A description of someone's travels, given in the form of narrative, public lecture, slide show or motion picture.


space flight

space flight (countable and uncountable, plural space flights)


museophile

From Greek mouseîon (seat of the Muses), μουσείον, museum, + -phile.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:museophile.


museography

museography (countable and uncountable, plural museographies)


segment

From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”).

der

(travel) A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.


superluminal

The first thing to understand about superluminal expansion is that it isn't visible to the unaided eye. The objects that appear to be moving faster than light are emitting radio waves, not visible light.

1984, Edward Edelson, “Faster than light?”, in Popular Science, retrieved 2013-11-20, page 70

(astronomy, physics, fiction, fantasy) Faster than light; having a speed greater than light.

(unpreferred translation due to hyperphoton, hyperphotonic: υπερφωτονικός m (yperfotonikós), υπερφωτονική f (yperfotonikí), υπερφωτονικό n (yperfotonikó))


warp factor

From the science-fiction series Star Trek.

(science fiction) A hypothetical figure indicating a space vessel's speed greater than the speed of light.


second class

The second-lowest rank in the Boy Scouts of America, between tenderfoot and first class.

Allport's decision in 1872 to abolish Second Class on the Midland and effectively upgrade Third Class to the standards of Second, most notably with upholstered seating, sent shockwaves through the Victorian railway.

2023 February 8, Conrad Landin, “Bon appetit: 150 years of railway dining”, in RAIL, number 976, page 47

A class of travel, inferior to first class.

(UK) A class of postage with delivery times slower than first class.


walk policy

(travel, hotel, hospitality industry) A pre-arranged list of compensation that will be offered to clients whose reserved room is not available at time of check-in.

hotel; hospitality industry; hotel; hospitality industry


sex tourism

Travel to another country for the purpose of sexual intercourse with prostitutes or for the purpose of engaging in sex acts which are prohibited in one's home jurisdiction.


land bridge

His reference to waves of lorries on the A55 that match ferry schedules may become dated. Until very recently, the A55 formed part of a land bridge between Ireland and continental Europe. However, when Britain left the European Union, ferries started to ply a direct sea link from Ireland, [...].

2021 December 29, Philip Haigh, “Rail's role in unifying Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, in RAIL, number 947, page 25

(Ireland, British, travel) Travel by ferry from one country, via another country by road, then by another ferry crossing to a third country. An example is from Ireland by ferry to the UK, by road to the opposite coast, then ferry to France.


reconfirm

en-verb

reconfirm (third-person singular simple present reconfirms, present participle reconfirming, simple past and past participle reconfirmed)

reconfirms (present singular third-person)
reconfirming (participle present)
reconfirmed (participle past)
reconfirmed (past)

(aviation, travel, dated) To advise an airline of your intention to use a reservation, or risk cancellation.


butterfly effect

en-noun

butterfly effect (plural butterfly effects)

A Sound of Thunder
Chaos: Making a New Science
Edward Lorenz
Lorenz attractor
Ray Bradbury
butterfly effect

Coined by American author and historian of science James Gleick in 1987 in his book Chaos: Making a New Science, whose first chapter bears the title “The Butterfly Effect”, and in which he discusses “the paradox of the butterfly’s wings” potentially making the difference whether a hurricane will or will not arise somewhere else later. Meteorologist Edward Lorenz, the founder of modern chaos theory, had in 1972, at a scientific meeting, presented a paper entitled “Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings set off a tornado in Texas?” without using the specific term butterfly effect. Lorenz also notes that representations of the strange attractor now known as the “Lorenz attractor” resemble a butterfly, as well as that correspondents have drawn his attention to Ray Bradbury’s short science fiction story “A Sound of Thunder”, in which a time traveler’s crushing a butterfly in the Late Cretaceous changes the outcome of a present-day presidential election. But the metaphorical butterfly was actually introduced in the title of the 1972 presentation by meteorologist Philip Merilees, who was not familiar with Bradbury’s story.

coinage

Example of butterfly effect: stepping on a bug 4,000 years ago causes a different person to win the presidential election today.

(by extension, science fiction) The notion that small changes in the past via time travel can cause disproportionately large and unforeseeable consequences in the present.


overland

(travel) a trip by land between the UK and the Indian Sub-continent or Australia, or between the UK and South Africa.


down line

If you miss a flight, the airline will likely cancel the down line.

(travel, aviation) the next and subsequent flights in an itinerary.


time of arrival

en-noun

time of arrival (plural times of arrival)

The time when an airplane, or other public conveyance, is scheduled to arrive.

抵達時間

the time when an airplane etc. is scheduled to arrive


beam up

en-verb

beam up (third-person singular simple present beams up, present participle beaming up, simple past and past participle beamed up)

beams up (present singular third-person)
beaming up (participle present)
beamed up (participle past)
beamed up (past)

(science fiction, transitive) To teleport (someone or something) using a (fictional) device, especially from the surface of a planet to an orbiting starship.


consolidator

(aviation, travel) a business which buys air travel tickets in bulk, then sells them at discounted prices.


time tunnel

(science fiction) A passageway enabling time travel.


uncheck

uncheck (third-person singular simple present unchecks, present participle unchecking, simple past and past participle unchecked)

unchecks (present singular third-person)
unchecking (participle present)
unchecked (participle past)
unchecked (past)

(travel, aviation) To remove a previously checked-in passenger from the check-in system, allowing changes to the ticket.


deaccession

deaccession (third-person singular simple present deaccessions, present participle deaccessioning, simple past and past participle deaccessioned)

deaccessions (present singular third-person)
deaccessioning (participle present)
deaccessioned (participle past)
deaccessioned (past)

/ˌdiːækˈsɛʃən/

Perhaps he forgets that museums, too, have basements full of stored art, and not every piece is equally adored. The temptation must be great to “deaccession” some of it, and museums often do succumb.

2000 December, Jeanne Schinto, “Obscure Objects of Lapsed Desire”, in The Atlantic

Over the past few years, the museum has quietly begun deaccessioning—the genteel art-world euphemism for “getting rid of”—large numbers of its city artifacts.

2010 June, John Freeman Gill, “Ghosts of New York”, in The Atlantic

The second is an unwritten rule that when a museum deaccessions a picture, the money should be used to purchase art only of the same period.

2010, Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, Aurum Press Limited

To officially remove an object from a museum, art gallery or library so that it may be sold.


hyperdrive

The ship's hyperdrive had failed, leaving them stranded years from any repair base.

(science fiction) A spaceship engine that allows faster-than-light travel by entering hyperspace.


boarding house

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-boarding house.wav

A boarding school building where boarders live during term time.


greeter

From Middle English greter, gretter, equivalent to greet + -er.

Visitors are matched with a volunteer Greeter according to shared interests and languages spoken, and their 3-4 hours together is a combination of what the Greeter has to offer and the visitor wants to know.

1998, Proceedings from the Australian Tourism and Hospitality Research Conference, page 208

The greeter system — a free service provided by volunteers — is popular in several cities throughout the world.

2013, John A. Richardson, Grey Nomads, page 75

This tourism is based on tourists' quest for an 'authentic experience', by spreading throughout the entire city (admittedly with a predilection for gentrifying neighbourhoods), seeking 'off the beaten track' (but always secure) itineraries (Djament-Tran and Guinand, 2014; Maitland, 2013; Maitland and Newman, 2014), going for a walk with a local 'greeter' and, above all, staying in a local's home.

2017, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sandra Guinand, Tourism and Gentrification in Contemporary Metropolises, page 54

Many greeter associations now exist across the world.

2021, Isabelle Frochot, A Practical Guide to Managing Tourist Experiences

(tourism) A volunteer who shows tourists around their home city or region for free.


voluntourism

As summer looms, many Americans — college students, retirees and others who stand at the cusp of life changes — will make similar choices in search of transformational experiences. An industry exists to make these easier to make: the voluntourism business. A voluntourist is someone like Jack, who wishes to combine exotic vacation travel with volunteer work.

2014 April 21, Rafia Zakaria, “The white tourist’s burden”, in Al Jazeera America

A type of tourism which combines traditional travel and tourism with volunteer work. Travelers are given opportunities to contribute money and/or time to causes related to their destinations.


agritourism

By surface analysis, agri- + tourism. Possibly borrowed from or influenced by Romance cognates, such as Italian agriturismo, which may be attested earlier.

A form of tourism in which tourists stay in farms or agricultural villages, either to experience farm life, or as a base for exploring the countryside


agriturismo

(count) A place of agritourism accommodation; a farm that offers tourists lodging as one of its lines of business.


craft centre

A place, typically having one or more workshops, an exhibition gallery and a shop, where tourists may watch local craftsmen at work and buy examples of their craft

ionad ceardaíochta

a place where tourists may watch local craftsmen at work and buy examples of their craft


time-travel

Sequels to fish-out-of-water comedies make progressively less sense the longer a series continues. By the time Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles rolled around in 2001, 15 years after the first Crocodile Dundee became a surprise blockbuster, the title character had been given an awfully long time to grow acclimated to those kooky Americans. Men In Black 3 finagles its way out of this predicament by literally resetting the clock with a time-travel premise that makes Will Smith both a contemporary intergalactic cop in the late 1960s and a stranger to Josh Brolin, who plays the younger version of Smith’s stone-faced future partner, Tommy Lee Jones.

2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club


frequent flyer

As he flew home every weekend, he considered himself a frequent flyer.

A person who flies frequently on commercial airliners.


return ticket

(travel) A ticket granting permission to travel to a place and return.

往返票

a ticket granting permission to travel to a place and back again


red-eye

en-noun

red-eye (countable and uncountable, plural red-eyes)

The noun is derived from red + eye; sense 2.3 (“strong but poor-quality whiskey”) and sense 3 (“overnight airplane flight”) are probably so named because they may cause people to develop bloodshot eyes.
The verb is derived from the noun.

I waited too late to book my holiday flight, so I had to take the red-eye.

In fact, you don't see many business travelers on the redeye — the flights that leave West Coast cities after 10 p.m. and touch down at East Coast airports around 6 a.m. […] Redeyes tend to be full of leisure travelers, budget travelers, people involved in bicoastal romances and students.

1990 January 14, Martha T. Moore, “Who flies the ‘redeyes’?”, in The Herald Statesman, volume 126, number 36, Yonkers, N.Y., page G7

Fortunately, most of these were former French colonies, and through a combination of quiet diplomacy and well-placed French nationals in the various air-traffic-control centers, the 300-mile-long stream of American aircraft flew the width of Africa as uneventfully as a red-eye flight from LAX to JFK.

1994, Tom Clancy, Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regiment, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, page 281

The red-eye back to San Francisco was only about half full. Michael had a window seat and Willy stretched his six-foot-three inch frame out into the aisle as they waited for take-off.

2007, Ellen Klages, “Triangle”, in Portable Childhoods, San Francisco, Calif.: Tachyon Publications, pages 61–62

He delighted in flying first class to New York on a red-eye and then putting in a full day's work. He functioned on pure adrenaline, often working twenty-hour days.

2014, John Glatt, “Up and Running: April to June, 1968”, in Live at the Fillmore East and West: Getting Backstage and Personal with Rock’s Greatest Legends, Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, Rowman & Littlefield, page 136

(countable, US, aviation, travel, colloquial, also attributively) An overnight airplane flight or train trip.


red-eye

en-verb

red-eye (third-person singular simple present red-eyes, present participle red-eyeing or red-eying, simple past and past participle red-eyed)

red-eyes (present singular third-person)
red-eyeing (participle present)
red-eying (participle present)
red-eyed (participle past)
red-eyed (past)

I flew in this morning, red-eying it in last night after hearing of this hearing, because what you are doing here is something that I am particularly interested in.

1988 January 28, “Witnesses: Roy Sampson, Portland, Oregon”, in Enforcement of the Indian Civil Rights Act: Hearing Held in Washington, D.C., January 28, 1988: […], [Washington, D.C.?]: United States Commission on Civil Rights, →OCLC, page 127

When I arrived at the Center, Block's staff told me he had red-eyed it home from Alaska the night before; he had been surfing fifteen- to twenty-foot waves off the coast of Alaska.

2004, Brenda Hunter, “What is Cancer Saying about Our Lives?”, in Staying Alive: Life-changing Strategies for Surviving Cancer: […], Colorado Springs, Colo.: WaterBrook Press, Random House, page 25

And though convinced she was making a fool of herself, she'd done as the frantic monk had begged, red-eyeing to Miami, island-hopping here.

2011, Glenn Kleier, chapter 7, in The Knowledge of Good & Evil, New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, page 37

(intransitive, aviation, travel, colloquial) Often followed by it: to travel on a red-eye (“an overnight airplane flight”).

lentää yön yli

to travel on an overnight airplane flight


LMC

(travel, dated) Initialism of let message (to) call (back).


warp bubble

Coined in 1994 by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre.

(astrophysics, science fiction) A detached region of spacetime which is theoretically capable of moving faster than the speed of light.


supercee

Presumed super- + cee, a respelling of the physics symbol c (denoting the speed of light in a vacuum; an abbreviation of both English constant and Latin celeritas (“swiftness”)).

But Man had always been a restless, persistent creature, and the stars called, and in an incredibly short space of time a highly-ingenious refinement of the theta drive gave him supercee.
“What I can’t understand, Psy, is why in the name of Mira the Terrans couldn’t have been admitted to the Federation as soon as they developed supercee. […]”
Offhand I’d say that the Terrans, when they hit on the secret of star-driving a planet, which isn’t much of a trick once the supercee principle is clearly understood, decided to go off on a hunt round the galaxy for a see-tee system.

1930, Information Access Company, Analog Science Fiction/science Fact, pp63, 73, & 77

1960, AUTHOR UNKNOWN, Astounding Science-fiction, pp70, 72, & 73; presumed to be an earlier work (1930 or earlier), as quotations 2 and 3 also appear in:

“[…] A couple of … after the last rescue ship had lif … into space and shifted into the … of supercee, the star exploded.”
“Surely you know the answer to that one,” he said after a moment or two, “or have you forgotten all about a little thing called the decrement effect?” The Psychologist nodded. “Precisely. The decrement effect. The factor that makes supercee — supercee as we know it, that is — inoperable in intergalactic space.” He looked thoughtful. “I don’t think anyone’s yet evolved a satisfactory theory to account for the existence of the effect. The only thing that’s certain is that it’s tied up in some way with gravity fields — or, rather, with the absence of g-fields.” He shrugged.
“What I can’t understand, Psy, is why in the name of Mira the Terrans couldn’t have been admitted to the Federation as soon as they developed supercee. […]”

1930, Information Access Company, Analog Science Fiction/science Fact, page 72

The core was virtually unreachable at supercee velocities. So the Lost Star’s bleep has been sounding for eighty years, and no ship has reached her.

1979, Frank Northen Magill, Survey of Science Fiction Literature, Salem Press, page 937

(rare, science fiction) Faster-than-light travelling speed.


Eloi

From French Éloi, from Medieval Latin Eligius, chiefly after Saint Eligius, from Latin ēligere (“to pick, to choose from”) + -ius (“-y: forming adjectives and names”).


tourist highway

en-noun

tourist highway (plural tourist highways)

A road which is marketed as particularly suited for tourists, and promoted by traffic signs or advertising material.


bughouse

(US, slang) A hospital, especially a lunatic asylum.


MCT

MCT (countable and uncountable, plural MCTs)

minimum connecting time
minimum connecting time#English

(aviation, travel) Initialism of minimum connecting time.


backpacker

Among the ah bengs and ah lians, the mats and the minahs, the young expats and the backpackers, he stood out like a dozen guys on a male-only dance floor singing Dancing Queen (I'll never forgive Blur for ruining my 21st birthday).

2012 April 15, Neil Humphreys, “From Cool Dude to Sad Old Man”, in The New Paper, page 34

A decade ago, I was a backpacker entirely reliant on the railways as a means to see Britain, and with castles as my destination. Via trains alone, I was able to tick off nearly all of the castles that my English Heritage annual pass afforded me.

2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 53

A traveler whose luggage consists of a backpack; especially, such a traveler who uses hostels, public transport, and other inexpensive services.

Backpacker

specific sense of “usually young, hostel-dwelling traveller” also


FNU

(travel, aviation) Initialism of first name unknown. (used on birth certificates or airline reservations)


Einstein-Rosen bridge

Einstein-Rosen bridge (plural Einstein-Rosen bridges)

From the names of the physicists who originally predicted it, Einstein (Albert Einstein) and Rosen (Nathan Rosen).

(physics) A type of wormhole that is inherently unstable and collapses before any information or matter can pass through.

ER=EPR

a conjecture about the nature of the universe that connects quantum physics to spacetime physics


EH

Eastern Hemisphere
Eastern Hemisphere#English

(travel, aviation) Initialism of Eastern Hemisphere (travel within or between IATA areas 2 and 3).


medical tourism

The American Journal of Medicine
The American Journal of Medicine

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine
Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Journal of the American Medical Association

Developing World Bioethics
Developing World Bioethics

The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer

(derogatory) Travelling across international borders, generally from a rich country to a poor country, to deliver healthcare, often on a temporary basis.


air ticket

A document issued at time of payment for an airfare, entitling the holder to travel.

تَذْكِرَة طَيَرَان

a pass entitling the holder to travel in an aeroplane


transmat

Attested since the 1950s, from transmit or transfer and matter; perhaps popularized by the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

One of these days.., they'll invent a Transmat that'll set you down anywhere.

1959 June 30, Laurence Janifer, “Obey that Impulse!”, in Future Science Fiction, number 43, page 40

Three lines of workers began to vanish into the transmats, heading for their homes in the android compounds of five continents, […]

1970 June 30, Robert Silverberg, “The Tower of Glass”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 30, number 3, page 83

TIME LORD: Ah. Welcome, Doctor.
DOCTOR: What's going on? Don't you realize how dangerous it is to intercept a transmat beam?
TIME LORD: Oh, come, Doctor, not with our techniques. We Time Lords transcended such simple mechanical devices when the universe was less than half its present size.

1975, Terry Nation, Genesis of the Daleks (Doctor Who, season 12, serial 4), opening dialogue

You are in a TRANS-MAT unit. You see a faulty control panel with a button on it.

1983, The Long Way Home (video game published with 16/48 Magazine)

LYNDA: Oh, that's the transmat. Scrambles your head — I was sick for days.

2005, Russell T Davies, Bad Wolf (Doctor Who series 1, episode 12)

(British, science fiction) A teleporter; a fictional device that transfers/transmits matter from one location to another without the object traversing the intervening distance as itself.


transmat

en-verb

transmat (third-person singular simple present transmats, present participle transmatting, simple past and past participle transmatted)

transmats (present singular third-person)
transmatting (participle present)
transmatted (participle past)
transmatted (past)

It wasn't far enough away to think about transmatting and besides, that was no longer a viable option, what with vandals having wrecked some of the booths in the area.

1991, Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, Carmen Carter, Robert Greenberger, Doomsday World (Star Trek: The Next Generation; 12), Pocket Books, page 171

'No, you're not,' Blandish put in smoothly 'You're transmatting down with me. I'll head the away team and I'll consent to let you advise.'

1999, Paul Magrs, Jeremy Hoad, The Blue Angel (Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor Adventures; 27), BBC Worldwide, page 36

Donna twisted her neck around to try to find the Doctor, but she realised that she'd been transmatted alone.

2010, Mark Michalowski, Shining Darkness (Doctor Who: New Series Adventures; 27), BBC Worldwide, page 17

(British, science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To teleport; to (cause to) travel via transmat device.


staycation

The noun is a blend of stay + vacation. The verb is derived from the noun.

If you're feeling the pinch of high gas prices and job woes, try a "Staycation", the new industry term for staying at home and enjoying yourself.

1997, Pathfinders Travel: The Travel Magazine for People of Color, Philadelphia, Pa.: Pathfinders Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 64

Instead of going away for a vacation, consider a staycation. That's when you stay home and explore your hometown—try a new restaurant, hike a local park, or visit that museum you've been meaning to check out.

2009 August, Nancy Conner, “Going Green: Transportation and Travel”, in Dawn Frausto, editor, Living Green: The Missing Manual, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, part 2 (Greening Your Lifestyle), page 246

[O]ne family I know realized they didn't have the money available for their usual summer camping trip. So instead of going on a vacation they decided to have a "staycation." They parked their pop-up camper in their driveway at home, set up some tents on the lawn, and slept in them every night. They cooked out every day with the grill and found free concerts, museums, and events in their own city.

2010, Brian Kluth, with Stan Guthrie, “Protection Principles”, in Christopher Reese, editor, Experience God as Your Provider: Finding Financial Stability in Unstable Times, Chicago, Ill.: Moody Publishers, part 2 (Receive God’s Principles), page 99

For me, whether I'm on a visit to a monastery in Greece or an elaborately planned staycation (that involves disengaging from all my devices, going on long hikes or walks, yoga classes and unhurried meditations, sleeping in with no alarms, and reading actual books you can underline that have nothing to do with work), the essential element is to regain that sense of wonder.

2014, Arianna Huffington, “Wonder”, in Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-being, Wisdom, and Wonder, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, page 193

I could stop this right now, I thought. We could unpack the car and go back to our lives—a staycation in our own home.

2014 November, Paula Treick DeBoard, “Curtis”, in The Fragile World, Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Mira, page 108

[...] Melissa uses some of her annual leave to add two days to a three-day weekend, and these five spontaneous days off became not only a Greenwich Village stay-cation but also something of the honeymoon we were too busy to take together in our hectic "uni-moon" days. But what to do on our stay-cation? Ten thousand Big Apple activities beckon.

2014 November, William Powers, “Rooftoop Bees and Beans”, in New Slow City: Living Simply in the World’s Fastest City, Novato, Calif.: New World Library, part 1 (Spring to Summer: The Natural City), page 36

(informal) A vacation spent at or close to home.

A vacation spent at one's own home without other overnight accommodation.

It's holiday time again. Having invented the staycation – no, I don't like the word either – four years ago when we ran out of money and out of patience with French traffic, we are sticking to principle and, as we did four months ago, hanging out at Tom Hodgkinson's gaff in north Devon.

2009 August 31, Nicholas Lezard, “Down and Out in London”, in New Statesman, London: New Statesman Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-12-01, page 54

Somewhere in the last few decades the stacation was substituted for the prestige and glamour of the trip abroad, and the recent flurry of low cost airlines all but cemented that as the new tradition for those that can afford it.

2012 October 24, Jeff Brazier, “The Joys of Camping”, in HuffPost, UK edition, archived from the original on 2017-07-01

The rise in patronage partly reflects the growing trend for ‘staycations’ in the UK, in addition to Pitlochry’s status as the southern gateway to the world-famous Cairngorms National Park.

2019 December 4, Paul Stephen, “At the Heart of the Local Community”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 58

Many families who had planned to go away for the easter holidays are now deciding to grab a tent and go on an isolated family camping stacations to ensure the kids are still entertained as many holiday resorts go on possible lockdown.

2020 March 16, Heather Carrick, “Coronavirus: Glaswegians stock up on camping gear before self-isolation”, in Glasgow Times, Glasgow: Newsquest (Herald & Times), →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-09-27

(British, Ireland) A holiday spent in one's own country without travelling abroad.

Increasing product lifespans and decreased energy use may also enable both efficiency and sufficiency [...]. This includes means by which materials are used more productively (i.e. the same quantity providing a longer service) and throughput is slowed (i.e. products are replaced less frequently, plus, in the case of tourism, distance of travel is less – the so-called ‘staycation’ approach).

2009, C. Michael Hall, Alan A. Lew, “Futures of Tourism”, in Understanding and Managing Tourism Impacts: An Integrated Approach, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 323

This extreme "no" discretionary spending plan does not have to eliminate fun from your life. It actually challenges you to find creative sources of entertainment and "staycations" (vacations at home or near your home town).

2009, Scott M. Spann, “Step 4: Create a Personal Spending Plan”, in Tax Resolution and Financial Freedom: Using the Financial Planning Process to Deal with Tax Debt, Mount Pleasant, S.C.: LifeSpan Financial Planning, part II (Starting the Tax Resolution Process), page 70

We need to encourage stay-close-to-home vacations, or "stay-cations," and check out nature's splendor, recreational opportunities and entertaiment attractions nearby.

2009 June, Tom Turnipseed, “Simplicity, Simply Put”, in Cecile Andrews, Wanda Urbanska, Less is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness, Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, part 1 (Simplicity Defined), page 77


staycation

staycation (third-person singular simple present staycations, present participle staycationing, simple past and past participle staycationed)

staycations (present singular third-person)
staycationing (participle present)
staycationed (participle past)
staycationed (past)

[...] I staycationed there this summer, enjoying the ancient town of Sandbach with Saxon crosses in its cobbled square; [...]

2010 September 14, Fiona Bruce, “Equitable Life (Payments) Bill: Second Reading”, in House of Commons Debates (House of Commons of the United Kingdom), volume 515, part no. 45, London: Parliament of the United Kingdom, archived from the original on 2010-09-21, column 763

Having ‘staycationed’ with her sister in Kinnity, Co Offaly for the past four years, and with a budget of around €350, Bronwyn O’Brien says she’d just be happy to see the inside of a plane. “Although I didn’t mind holidaying at home, there’s nothing like getting on an airplane and feeling the heat hit your face the minute you arrive,” she tells.

2015 January 15, Dierdre Reynolds, “Sunshine Saturday: We’re all going on a summer holiday”, in Irish Independent, Dublin: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-05-11

It's that time of the year when deleting Instagram seems like a sensible mode of self-preservation for people staycationing, or quite simply stuck on home soil, while others are hashtagging #HotGirlSummer all over the continent.

2019 August 16, Alice Newbold, “Is Anyone Else Suffering from Yacht Fatigue?”, in Vogue, London: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-16

Baz [Ashmawy] and his family are staycationing in Ireland this summer due to the Covid-19 pandemic

2020 August 5, Dara Browne, “Fam-cation: RTE’s Baz Ashmawy shares adorable snap of his mother and daughter on staycation in Co Limerick”, in The Irish Sun, Dublin: News Group Newspapers, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-07, photograph caption

Over the last few weekends traffic is back with a vengeance, with families breaking out of lockdown to staycation in the UK and visit the coast, countryside and shops.

2020 August 5, Edmund King, quotee, “Weekend car use returns to pre-pandemic levels”, in Express & Star, Wolverhampton, West Midlands: Midland News Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-09

RTE star Mary Kennedy has said that it is "so nice to explore our lovely country" as she staycations on Inis Oirr with her friend.

2020 September 25, Aine Conaty, “Merry Mary: RTE star Mary Kennedy says it’s ‘so nice to explore our lovely country’ as she staycations on Inis Oirr with pal”, in The Irish Sun, Dublin: News Group Newspapers, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-09-19, photograph caption

(intransitive, informal) To spend a vacation at or close to home.

(British, Ireland) To take a holiday in one's own country as opposed to travelling abroad.

Plan a staycation: Enjoy your own house, your own backyard, your own town. [...] This was the third summer the Wyatts and their two children have staycationed in Virginia Beach.

2009 August 2, Krys Stefansky, “Getting away from it all in your own backyard”, in The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.: Tribune Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-09-26

If you're heading for the water today, or staycationing by the pool, you'll need something to read, right?

2020 August 4, Terri Schlichenmeyer, “‘Why We Swim’ offers a refreshing read”, in The Philadelphia Tribune, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Philadelphia Tribune Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-19

(US) To spend a vacation at one's own home without other overnight accommodation.


rack rate

(travel) The published full price for a room in a hotel that has not been pre-booked.


viatical

en-adj

viatical (comparative more viatical, superlative most viatical)

more viatical (comparative)
most viatical (superlative)


warp speed

The ship was accelerating to warp speed, when one of the engines failed.

(science fiction) A hypothetical, extremely rapid, speed, resulting from entering a separate dimension, termed hyperspace; much faster than the speed of light.


time of departure

en-noun

time of departure (plural times of departure)

The time when an airplane or other public conveyance is scheduled to depart.

出發時間

the time when an airplane etc. is scheduled to depart