trip
(trĭp)n.1. A going from one place to another; a journey.
2. A stumble or fall.
3. A maneuver causing someone to stumble or fall.
4. A mistake.
5. Slang a. A hallucinatory experience induced by a psychedelic drug: an acid trip.
b. An intense, stimulating, or exciting experience: a power trip.
6. Slang a. A usually temporary but absorbing interest or preoccupation: He's on another health food trip.
b. A certain way of life or situation: "deny that his reclusiveness is some sort of deliberate star trip" (Patricia Bosworth).
7. A light or nimble tread.
8. a. A device, such as a pawl, for triggering a mechanism.
b. The action of such a device.
v. tripped, trip·ping, trips
v.intr.1. To stumble.
2. To move nimbly with light rapid steps; skip.
3. To be released, as a tooth on an escapement wheel in a watch.
4. To make a trip.
5. To make a mistake: tripped up on the last question.
6. Slang To have a drug-induced hallucination.
v.tr.1. To cause to stumble or fall.
2. To trap or catch in an error or inconsistency.
3. To release (a catch, trigger, or switch), thereby setting something in operation.
4. Nautical a. To raise (an anchor) from the bottom.
b. To tip or turn (a yardarm) into a position for lowering.
c. To lift (an upper mast) in order to remove the fid before lowering.
Idiom: trip the light fantastic To dance.
[Middle English, act of tripping, from trippen, to trip, from Old French tripper, to stamp the foot, of Germanic origin.]
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trip
(trɪp) n1. an outward and return journey, often for a specific purpose
2. any tour, journey, or voyage
3. a false step; stumble
4. any slip or blunder
5. a light step or tread
6. a manoeuvre or device to cause someone to trip
7. (Mechanical Engineering)
a. any catch on a mechanism that acts as a switch
b. (as modifier): trip button.
8. (Chemistry) a surge in the conditions of a chemical or other automatic process resulting in an instability
9. (Recreational Drugs) informal a hallucinogenic drug experience
10. informal any stimulating, profound, etc, experience
vb,
trips,
tripping or tripped11. (often foll by: up, or when intr, by on or over) to stumble or cause to stumble
12. to make or cause to make a mistake or blunder
13. (often foll by: up) to trap or catch in a mistake
14. (intr) to go on a short tour or journey
15. (intr) to move or tread lightly
16. (Recreational Drugs) (intr) informal to experience the effects of LSD or any other hallucinogenic drug
17. (
tr)
a. to activate (a mechanical trip)
b. trip a switch to switch electric power off by moving the switch armature to disconnect the supply
[C14: from Old French triper to tread, of Germanic origin; related to Low German trippen to stamp, Middle Dutch trippen to walk trippingly, trepelen to trample]
ˈtrippingly adv
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trip
(trɪp)
n., v. tripped, trip•ping. n. 1. a traveling from one place to another; journey or voyage.
2. a journey or run made by a boat, train, or the like, between two points.
3. a single course of travel taken as part of one's duty, work, etc.: my weekly trip to the bank.
4. a stumble; misstep.
5. a sudden impeding or catching of a person's foot so as to throw the person down.
6. a slip, error, or blunder.
7. a light, nimble step or movement of the feet.
8. a projection on a moving part that strikes a control lever to stop, reverse, or control a machine, as a printing press.
9. Slang. a. an instance or period of being under the influence of a hallucinogenic drug, esp. LSD.
b. the euphoria, hallucinations, etc., experienced during such a period.
c. a stimulating or exciting experience.
d. any experience.
e. any intense interest or preoccupation: She's been on a nostalgia trip all week.
v.i. 10. to stumble: to trip on a toy.
11. to make a slip or mistake, as in conversation or conduct.
12. to step lightly or nimbly; skip.
13. to tip or tilt.
14. Slang. to be under the influence of a hallucinogenic drug, esp. LSD (often fol. by out).
v.t. 15. to cause to stumble (often fol. by up).
16. to cause to fail; obstruct.
17. to cause to make a slip or error (often fol. by up).
18. to catch in a slip or error.
19. to tip or tilt.
20. to break out (a ship's anchor) by turning over or lifting from the bottom by a line attached to the crown of the anchor.
21. to operate, start, or set free (a mechanism, weight, etc.) by suddenly releasing a catch, clutch, or the like.
22. to release or operate suddenly (a catch, clutch, etc.).
Idioms: trip the light fantastic, to go dancing.
[1350–1400; Middle English trippen to step lightly < Old French trip(p)er < Middle Dutch; compare early Dutch trippen, Dutch trippelen (frequentative with -el), akin to Old English treppan to tread]
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journey
trip voyage excursion1. 'journey'A journey is the process of travelling from one place to another by land, air, or sea.
There is a direct train from London Paddington to Penzance. The journey takes around 5 hours.
This service will save thousands of long-distance lorry journeys on Britain's roads.
2. 'trip'A trip is the process of travelling from one place to another, staying there, usually for a short time, and coming back again.
Lucy is away on a business trip to Milan.
They went on a day trip to the seaside.
3. 'voyage'A voyage is a long journey from one place to another in a ship or spacecraft.
The ship's voyage is over.
...the voyage to the moon in 1972.
4. 'excursion'An excursion is a short trip made either as a tourist or in order to do a particular thing.
The tourist office organizes excursions to the palace.
5. verbs used with 'journey', 'trip', 'voyage' and 'excursion'You make or go on a journey.
He made the long journey to India.
You take or go on a trip.
We took a bus trip to Manchester.
You make a voyage.
The ship made the 4,000-kilometre voyage across the Atlantic.
You go on an excursion.
Students went on an excursion to the Natural History Museum.
Be Careful!
Don't use 'do' with any of these words. Don't say, for example, 'We did a bus trip'.
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