trip
IPA: trˈɪp
noun
- A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- A stumble or misstep.
- (figurative, archaic) An error; a failure; a mistake.
- (colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
- (by extension) Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
- A faux pas, a social error.
- (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
- (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
- (obsolete) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
- The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
- (nautical) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
- (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
- (obsolete) A troop of men; a host.
- A flock of wigeons.
verb
- (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
- (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
- (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
- (transitive, obsolete) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
- (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
- (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event
- Of an electrical circuit, to trip out (through overload, a short circuit).
- (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
- (intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
- (intransitive, dated) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
- (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, most commonly used in the form tripping) To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
adjective
- (poker slang) Of or relating to trips (three of a kind).
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Examples of "trip" in Sentences
- He is going on a trip.
- I'm packing up for the trip.
- The package trip is optional.
- This trip was fabulous to me.
- The trip was long and arduous.
- The trip was long and unpleasant.
- The trip was for the conciliation.
- They went on a trip to the tropical region.
- There is a paucity of documentation of the trip.
- The report mentioned that the trips are not on the official travel itinerary.
- The copper canyon train trip is probably the most worthwhile tourist thing in the area.
- Katherine Tyler's cross-country train trip is unexpectedly derailed when she is kidnapped by an unscrupulous band of outlaws.
- More, you can easily share your outdoor sports and trip playback with complete tracks and geotagged photos on @trip, Google Maps, Google Earth, Picasa and Flickr.
- One runner whose progeny suggests she will be well suited by today's step up in trip is Chasse Coeur, who is likely to be well supported in the seller at Warwick.
- What should concern us about the Khrushchev-Bulganin trip is not that they cavorted like clumsy elephants - in our judgment - but that they saw and were seen by millions.
- Well known guidebook writer and Mexican folkart expert, Francis Toor, described it thus: The Colima_Manzanillo Train trip is through beautiful agricultural and mountainous country with rivers, small lakes, canyons and volcanoes.
- Visualizing GPS Tracks for Trips with GE Plugin - Last week I noticed an interesting application of the Google Earth plugin for playing back a GPS track with photos on a travel site called @trip (www. a-trip.com). @trip, like many GPS track travel sites, lets you upload your GPS track and photos.
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