Crossword clues for excursion
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excursion \Ex*cur"sion\ [L. excursio: cf. F. excursion. See Excurrent.]
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A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.
Far on excursion toward the gates of hell.
--Milton.They would make excursions and waste the country.
--Holland. A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.
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A wandering from a subject; digression.
I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore make no excursions.
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(Mach.) Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]
Syn: Journey; tour; ramble; jaunt. See Journey.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "a deviation in argument," also "a military sally," from Latin excursionem (nominative excursio) "a running forth, sally, excursion, expedition," figuratively "an outset, opening," noun of action from past participle stem of excurrere "run out, run forth, hasten forward; project, extend," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + currere "to run" (see current (adj.)). Sense of "journey" recorded in English by 1660s.
Wiktionary
n. A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
WordNet
n. a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" [syn: jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay]
wandering from the main path of a journey [syn: digression]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
An excursion is a trip by a group of people, usually made for leisure, education, or physical purposes. It is often an adjunct to a longer journey or visit to a place, sometimes for other (typically work-related) purposes.
Public transportation companies issue reduced price excursion tickets to attract business of this type. Often these tickets are restricted to off-peak days or times for the destination concerned.
Short excursions for education or for observations of natural phenomena are called field trips. One-day educational field studies are often made by classes as extracurricular exercises, e.g. to visit a natural or geographical feature.
The term is also used for short military movements into foreign territory, without a formal announcement of war.
Excursion is defined as how far the cone of a speaker linearly travels from its resting position. In general lower frequency drivers or subwoofers are designed to move more air and have more excursion than those of higher frequency. If a speaker is pushed beyond its limits, overexcursion, or "bottoming out", can occur as the voice coil either slips out of the magnetic gap or hits the bottom of it.
Often, large speakers such as those used in clubs and in professional audio actually allow little cone excursion and/or they have fairly stiff surrounds which do not allow them to fluctuate greatly without high power. This is because they would otherwise overdrive and have a much shorter lifetime because it doesn't take much power at very low frequencies to cause even a large and "powerful" loudspeaker to overfluctuate.
An Excursion is a brief recreational trip. Excursion also may refer to:
Non-standard uses:- Harvest excursion
- Grand Excursion
- Geomagnetic excursion
- Brownian excursion, a concept in the theory of stochastic processes.
- Power excursion, a topic in nuclear physics.
- Diaphragmatic excursion, the movement of the thoracic diaphragm during breathing.
- Ford Excursion
Usage examples of "excursion".
The scenery, however, was beautiful, the weather so perfect, and he enjoyed his rambles among the hills and his excursions on the water so thoroughly that he was already growing slightly forgetful of his purpose and satisfied that he could enjoy himself a few weeks without the zest of artistically redeeming the face of Ida Mayhew.
Murder most foul, alarums and excursions, theft, buggery, barratry, incomplete perfusion!
And this was the situation that Elephant and his pals were confronted with after their excursion with the Marshmallow people.
It uses on the order of a thousandth of the capacity of the Matrioshka brain it is part of, although the runaway excursion currently in force has absorbed most of that.
They were starting on some Saturday afternoon excursion, and had mistimed their train.
Martinez showered off the polyamide scent of his suit seals, then got into bed for what turned out to be a lengthy struggle between sleep and his own imagination, each making ingenious sallies, excursions, and flanking attacks to thwart the other.
Through continual excursions into the semantic crossroads of each one of his words, Kundera reinvests the language with a little of its forgotten polysemy, relativity and laughter.
Hully Burroughs had been in no mood to join his sailor friends Bill Fielder and Dan Pressman in any Hotel Street excursions.
Count and his son would never yield to his solicitations so far, as to let him accompany Renaldo in those excursions and reconnoitring parties, by which a volunteer inures himself to toil and peril, and acquires that knowledge in the operations of war, which qualifies him for a command in the service.
Sometimes in those mountaineering excursions with John to Zermatt, to Chamonix, to Grindelwald, I have found it in my heart to envy the unaspiring people who spend long days pottering about on level ground.
In the long, eventful lives of Adams and Jefferson, it was an excursion of no importance to history.
CHAPTER XIX Occupation at Athens--Mount Pentilicus--We descend into the Caverns-- Return to Athens--A Greek Contract of Marriage--Various Athenian and Albanian Superstitions--Effect of their Impression on the Genius of the Poet During his residence at Athens, Lord Byron made almost daily excursions on horseback, chiefly for exercise and to see the localities of celebrated spots.
Bill Fish, a waterman who attends the youngest boys in their excursions.
No incident disturbed this peaceful night, and the next day, the 29th of March, fresh and active they awoke, ready to undertake the excursion which must determine their fate.
A chap that could openly laugh and jeer at his own peculiarities must surely be a good sort, so forthwith Banty pitched in heart and soul to arrange all kinds of excursions and adventures, and The Eena planned and suggested, until it seemed that all the weeks stretching out into the holiday months were to be one long round of sport and pleasure in honor of the lanky King Georgeman, who was so anxious to fall easily into the ways of the West.