Meaning of 'trip' (Webster Dictionary)
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
- A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or
balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake.
- A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
- A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist
to lose footing.
- A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
- A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc.
- A troop of men; a host.
- A flock of widgeons.
- 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.
- To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip
to Europe.
- 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.
- Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense
against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail.
- 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.
- Fig.: To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an
obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail.
- To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
- To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy
rope, so that it hangs free.
- To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for
lowering it.
- To release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or
compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent.
Meaning of 'trip' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs
Meaning (2):
- an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
Example in sentence:- confusion caused his unfortunate misstep;
- he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later;
- he recited the whole poem without a single trip
Meaning (3):
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
Example in sentence:- he blamed his slip on the ice;
- the jolt caused many slips and a few spills
Meaning (4):
- a light or nimble tread
Example in sentence:- he heard the trip of women's feet overhead
Meaning (5):
- a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)
Example in sentence:- he took a trip to the shopping center
Meaning (6):
- a catch mechanism that acts as a switch
Example in sentence:- the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water
Meaning (7):
- put in motion or move to act
Example in sentence:- actuate the circuits;
- trigger a reaction
Meaning (8):
- get high, stoned, or drugged
Meaning (9):
- miss a step and fall or nearly fall
Example in sentence:- She stumbled over the tree root
Meaning (10):
- cause to stumble
Example in sentence:- The questions on the test tripped him up
Definition
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