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Definition of 'trip'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) trip
a traveling from one place to another; journey or voyage.

2.  trip
a journey or run made by a boat, train, or the like, between two points.

3.  trip
a single course of travel taken as part of one's duty, work, etc.:
my weekly trip to the bank.

4.  trip
a stumble; misstep.

5.  trip
a sudden impeding or catching of a person's foot so as to throw the person down.

6.  trip
a slip, error, or blunder.

7.  trip
a light, nimble step or movement of the feet.

8.  trip
a projection on a moving part that strikes a control lever to stop, reverse, or control a machine, as a printing press.

9.  trip
Slang.

10.  trip
an instance or period of being under the influence of a hallucinogenic drug, esp. LSD.

11.  trip
the euphoria, hallucinations, etc., experienced during such a period.

12.  trip
a stimulating or exciting experience.

13.  trip
any experience.

14.  trip
any intense interest or preoccupation:
She's been on a nostalgia trip all week.

15. (v.i.) trip
to stumble:
to trip on a toy.

16.  trip
to make a slip or mistake, as in conversation or conduct.

17.  trip
to step lightly or nimbly; skip.

18.  trip
to tip or tilt.

19.  trip
Slang. to be under the influence of a hallucinogenic drug, esp. LSD (often fol. by out).

20. (v.t.) trip
to cause to stumble (often fol. by up).

21.  trip
to cause to fail; obstruct.

22.  trip
to cause to make a slip or error (often fol. by up).

23.  trip
to catch in a slip or error.

24.  trip
to tip or tilt.

25.  trip
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.

26.  trip
to operate, start, or set free (a mechanism, weight, etc.) by suddenly releasing a catch, clutch, or the like.

27.  trip
to release or operate suddenly (a catch, clutch, etc.).

28.  trip
trip the light fantastic, to go dancing.

Etymology: (1350–1400; ME trippen to step lightly < OF trip(p)er < MD; cf. early D trippen, D trippelen (freq. with -el), akin to OE treppan to tread)

Definition of 'trip'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) trip
a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)
"he took a trip to the shopping center"

2. (noun) trip
a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs
"an acid trip"

3. (noun) slip, trip
an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
"he blamed his slip on the ice"; "the jolt caused many slips and a few spills"

4. (noun) trip, head trip
an exciting or stimulating experience

5. (noun) tripper, trip
a catch mechanism that acts as a switch
"the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water"

6. (noun) trip
a light or nimble tread
"he heard the trip of women's feet overhead"

7. (verb) trip, trip-up, stumble, misstep
an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
"he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"

8. (verb) stumble, trip
miss a step and fall or nearly fall
"She stumbled over the tree root"

9. (verb) trip, trip up
cause to stumble
"The questions on the test tripped him up"

10. (verb) travel, trip, jaunt
make a trip for pleasure

11. (verb) trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off
put in motion or move to act
"trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"

12. (verb) trip, trip out, turn on, get off
get high, stoned, or drugged
"He trips every weekend"

Definition of 'trip'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) trip
a short journey to a place and back again
How was your trip to Paris?; a boat trip; We took a trip to L.A.

2. trip
a funny or slightly odd person
She's such a trip.

3. (verb) trip
to fall or nearly fall because your foot hits sth
I tripped on the step.; Be careful you don't trip over the cables.

4. trip
to intentionally make sb fall over sth
She stuck out her foot to trip him.

Definition of 'trip'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) trip
a quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip

2. (noun) trip
a brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt

3. (noun) trip
a false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake

4. (noun) trip
a small piece; a morsel; a bit

5. (noun) trip
a stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing

6. (noun) trip
a single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward

7. (noun) trip
a herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc

8. (noun) trip
a troop of men; a host

9. (noun) trip
a flock of widgeons

10.  trip
to move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5

11.  trip
to make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe

12.  trip
to take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble

13.  trip
fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail

14. (verb) trip
to cause to stumble, or take a false step; to cause to lose the footing, by striking the feet from under; to cause to fall; to throw off the balance; to supplant; -- often followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling

15. (verb) trip
fig.: To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail

16. (verb) trip
to detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict

17. (verb) trip
to raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free

18. (verb) trip
to pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it

19. (verb) trip
to release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent

Translation of 'trip'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: (often withuporover) to (cause to) catch one's foot and stumble or fall She tripped and fell; She tripped over the carpet.
Afrikaans: struikel	Arabic: رِحْلَه	Bulgarian: спъвам (се)
Brazilian: tropeçar	Czech: klopýtnout	German: stolpern
Danish: snuble	Greek: σκοντάφτω	Spanish: tropezar
Estonian: komistama	Farsi: سکندری خوردن	Finnish: kompastua
French: trébucher	Hebrew: לִמעוֹד	Hindi: उलझकर गिरना
Croatian: spotaći se	Hungarian: megbotlik	Indonesian: menjegal
Icelandic: hrasa	Italian: inciampare	Japanese: つまずかせる
Korean: 걸리다	Lithuanian: užkliūti	Latvian: []klupt
Malay: tersandung	Dutch: struikelen	Norwegian: snuble
Polish: potykać się	Persian: سکندری خوردن	Pashto: اوچت ګام اخیستل
Romanian: a (se)împiedica	Russian: спотыкаться	Slovenian: spotakniti se
Serbian: saplesti se	Swedish: snubbla, snava	Thai: สะดุด
Turkish: tökezlemek, ayağı takılma	Taiwanese: 絆倒	Ukrainian: спотикатися; падати, заче
Urdu: ٹھوکر کھاکر گرنا	Vietnamese: trượt	Chinese: 绊倒
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