trip
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
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transport
Etymology: From Middle English trippen (“tread or step lightly and nimbly, skip, dance”), perhaps from Old French triper (“to hop or dance around, strike with the feet”), from a Frankish source; or alternatively from Middle Dutch trippen (“to skip, trip, hop, stamp, trample”) (> Modern Dutch trippelen (“to toddle, patter, trip”)). Akin to Middle Low German trippen ( > Danish trippe (“to trip”), Swedish trippa (“to mince, trip”)), West Frisian tripje (“to toddle, trip”), German trippeln (“to scurry”), Old English treppan (“to trample, tread”). Related also to trap, tramp.
Inflected forms:
form: trips
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tripping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tripped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tripped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
pos: noun
examples: We make annual trips to the museum.
I took a weekend trip to Seville.
They have been on a trip since last month.
beach trip, camping trip, fishing trip, school trip, shopping trip
I sold my horse and took a trip to Ceylon and back on an Orient boat as a passenger,
We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
gloss: A stumble or misstep.
pos: noun
examples: He was injured due to a trip down the stairs.
gloss: An error; a failure; a mistake.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
figuratively
examples: Imperfect words, with childish trips.
Each seeming trip, and each digressive start.
gloss: A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: He had a strange trip after taking LSD.
Unlike other accepted stimuli, from nicotine to liquor, the hallucinogens promise those who take the “trip” a magic-carpet escape from dull reality in which perceptions are heightened, sense distorted, and the imagination permanently bedazzled with ecstatic visions of teleological verity.
We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee / We don't take our trips on LSD
gloss: Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: ego trip
power trip
nostalgia trip
guilt trip
Many of them admit to having suppressed any tendency toward homosexual behavior for the greater part of their lives—yet—denial becomes too heavy a trip after a period of time, and eventually curiosity wins out.
gloss: A faux pas, a social error.
pos: noun
gloss: A mechanical cutout device.
pos: noun
gloss: A trip-switch or cut-out.
pos: noun
examples: It's dark because the trip operated.
gloss: A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
pos: noun
examples: His heart bounded as he sometimes could distinctly hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door.
gloss: The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
pos: noun
examples: It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
And watches with a trip his foe to foil.
gloss: A single tack while beating (sailing to windward).
pos: noun
gloss: To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Be careful not to trip on those tree roots. You tripped over the cat and fell downstairs just last week.
gloss: To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
pos: verb
tags: sometimes
transitive
examples: A pedestrian was able to trip the burglar as he was running away.
Early in his boyhood he had learned to form ropes by twisting and tying long grasses together, and with these he was forever tripping Tublat or attempting to hang him from some overhanging branch.
gloss: To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And the Pharasay / Then durst nothynge say, / But let the matter slyp, / And made truth to tryp;
[T]ill his Tongue trips
A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble.
Virgil is so exact in every word that none can be changed but for a worse; he pretends sometimes to trip, but it is to make you think him in danger when most secure.
"No, Mrs. Curzon-Bowlby," he said; "if I danced I should be tripping indeed, in Gleicester opinion."
gloss: To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: These her women can trip me if I err.
gloss: To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When we get into the factory, trip the lights.
gloss: To be activated, as by a signal or an event
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The alarm system tripped, throwing everyone into a panic.
gloss: Of an electrical circuit, to trip out (through overload, a short circuit).
pos: verb
examples: From the evidence of witnesses and of the recorded passing times, including the time at which the circuit breakers were tripped when the wires were brought down, the train was travelling at a speed of not less than 70 m.p.h.
The 25kV had repeatedly tripped and the two had split from a larger group to operate an overhead line isolating switch.
gloss: To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: After taking the LSD, I started tripping about fairies and colors.
So, I went to the doctor, see what he could give me / He said, "Son, son, you've gone too far / 'Cause smokin' and trippin’ is all that you do," / Yeeeeeeaaaaaah
gloss: To journey, to make a trip.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Last summer, we tripped to the coast.
gloss: To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
examples: Come, and trip it, as ye go, / On the light fantastic toe.
She bounded by, and tripped so light / They had not time to take a steady sight.
A bright beautiful face glanced out at the window, and vanished—a light footstep was heard—and Mary came tripping forth to meet us.
gloss: To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
pos: verb
gloss: To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
pos: verb
gloss: To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: If she ain't with it, I find another little chick / I'm quick to switch, even when I was six / I had a backup bitch, when my bitch would trip / I'd go play with my other girlfriend and get me a kiss / And at the age of thirty-six I'm to the same old tricks
gloss: To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: Of or relating to trips (three of a kind).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
Derived words: businessman's trip
daytrip
facility trip
foot trip
have a safe trip home
midtrip
multitrip
negatrip
pretrip
robotrip
round-trip
sidetrip
tripcode
trip computer
trip cord
trip down memory lane
tripflare
trip hammer
trip hop
triplike
tripline
trip log
tripman
tripmate
tripmeter
trip meter
trip odometer
trippist
trip recorder
trip sill
trip sit
trip sitter
trip sitting
trip slip
tripsome
tripster
trip switch
trip tic
trip to Jerusalem
trip to the woodshed
trip working
mistrip
trippy
atrip
overtrip
trip balls
tripcock
trip from the tongue
Tripgate
trip off the tongue
trip out
trip over
trip over oneself
trip over one's feet
trip over one's own two feet
trippable
trippant
tripper
trip the light fantastic
trip up
tripwire
trip wire
untrip
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: гре́шка
roman: gréška
lang: Finnish
word: erehdys
lang: Finnish
word: virhe
lang: Finnish
word: kömmähdys
lang: Finnish
word: erhe
lang: Finnish
word: moka
lang: German
word: Fehlgriff
lang: Finnish
word: murunen
lang: Finnish
word: muru
lang: Polish
word: kawałek