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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trip \Trip\, noun
1. A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door. --Sir W. Scott.
2. A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt.
I took a trip to London on the death of the queen. --Pope.
3. A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake.
Imperfect words, with childish trips. --Milton.
Each seeming trip, and each digressive start. --Harte.
4. A small piece; a morsel; a bit. [Obs.] ''A trip of cheese.'' --Chaucer.
5. A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing.
And watches with a trip his foe to foil. --Dryden.
It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground. --South.
6. (Naut.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
7. A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc. [Prov. Eng. & Scott.]
8. A troop of men; a host. [Obs.] --Robert of Brunne.
9. (Zo["o]l.) A flock of widgeons.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trip \Trip\ (tr[i^]p), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Tripped} (tr[i^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Tripping}.] [OE. trippen; akin to D. trippen, Dan. trippe, and E. tramp. See {Tramp}.]
1. 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.
This horse anon began to trip and dance. --Chaucer.
Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe. --Milton.
She bounded by, and tripped so light They had not time to take a steady sight. --Dryden.
2. To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe.
3. To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false step; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble.
4. Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail. ''Till his tongue trip.'' --Locke.
A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble. --South.
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. --Dryden.
What? dost thou verily trip upon a word? --R. Browning.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trip \Trip\, verb (used with an object)
1. 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.
The words of Hobbes's defense trip up the heels of his cause. --Abp. Bramhall.
2. (Fig.): To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail.
To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword. --Shak.
3. To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict; also called {trip up}. [R.]
These her women can trip me if I err. --Shak.
4. (Naut.) (a) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free. (b) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
5. (Mach.) To release, let fall, or set free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent; to activate by moving a release mechanism, often unintentionally; as, to trip an alarm. [1913 Webster +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
trip
noun
1: a journey for some purpose (usually including the return); "he took a trip to the shopping center"
2: a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs; "an acid trip"
3: an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall; "he blamed his slip on the ice"; "the jolt caused many slips and a few spills" [syn: {slip}]
4: an exciting or stimulting experience [syn: {head trip}]
5: a catch mechanism that acts as a switch; "the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water" [syn: {tripper}]
6: a light or nimble tread; "he heard the trip of women's feet overhead"
7: 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" [syn: {trip-up}, {stumble}, {misstep}]
verb
1: miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root" [syn: {stumble}]
2: cause to stumble; "The questions on the test tripped him up" [syn: {trip up}]
3: make a trip for pleasure [syn: {travel}, {jaunt}]
4: put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits" [syn: {actuate}, {trigger}, {activate}, {set off}, {spark off}, {spark}, {trigger off}, {touch off}]
5: get high, stoned, or drugged; "He trips every weekend" [syn: {trip out}, {turn on}, {get off}] [also: {tripping}, {tripped}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
469 Moby Thesaurus words for "trip": airlift, airy nothing, allure, amble, antic, apparition, army, atrocity, autism, backslide, bad job, bait the hook, balk, barge, be all thumbs, bevue, birdlime, blooper, blow down, blow over, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, bob, bobble, boggle, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, boob, botch, bounce, bound, bowl along, bowl down, bowl over, brainchild, breach, bring down, bubble, bull, bulldog, bumble, bunch, bundle, bungle, butcher, campaign, canter, caper, capriole, capsize, caracole, careen, carry on, cast down, catch, catch out, cavort, chimera, chop down, circuit, clog, clump, clumsy performance, colony, come a cropper, commit a gaffe, course, crime, crime against humanity, cropper, cruise, culbute, curvet, cut a dido, cut capers, cut down, cut up, dance, dash down, daydream, deadly sin, deception, deck, decoy, degenerate, delinquency, delirium, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, dereliction, detonate, deviate, disconcert, disport, dive, down, drag, dream, dream of, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, drift, drive, drop, drove, eidolon, enmesh, enormity, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrap, enweb, err, erratum, error, etourderie, evil, excursion, expedition, explode, failure, fall, fall down, fall flat, fall headlong, fall into error, fall over, fall prostrate, false belief, false move, false step, falter, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fault, faux pas, fell, felony, fetch down, fiction, figment, flight, flock, floor, flop, flounce, flounder, flub, fluff, fool around, foot, footslog, foozle, forced landing, fox-trot, freak out, frisk, frolic, fumble, gallop, gam, gambado, gambol, gang, gaucherie, genocide, get, get a cropper, gin, git, globe-trot, go amiss, go astray, go awry, go wrong, grand tour, ground, guilty act, hallucinate, hallucination, halt, hash, header, heavy sin, herd, hew down, hightail, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hoof, hook, hook in, hop, hop along, horse around, host, hotfoot, idle fancy, ignis fatuus, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, impropriety, inadvertence, inadvertency, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, iniquity, injury, injustice, insubstantial image, inveigle, invention, jaunt, jog, jolt, journey, jump, jump about, junket, kennel, knock down, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, lay level, lay low, lay out, leap, level, lime, limp, list, litter, loose thread, lope, lumber, lunge, lurch, lure, maggot, make tracks, make-believe, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, mar, mesh, mess, mince, minor wrong, misbelief, miscalculate, misconception, miscue, misdeed, misdemeanor, misfeasance, misstep, mistake, mortal sin, mow down, muddle, muff, murder, myth, net, nonfeasance, noose, off day, offense, omission, operate, outing, outrage, overcome, overmaster, overmatch, overpower, overset, oversight, overthrow, overturn, pace, pack, package tour, paddle, peccadillo, peccancy, peg, peregrination, peregrinations, phantasm, phantom, piaffe, piaffer, pilgrimage, pipe dream, pipe-dream, pitch, play, play havoc with, pleasure trip, plod, plunge, pod, prance, pratfall, precipitate, pride, progress, prostrate, pull down, rack, ramp, rap, rase, raze, release, roll, rollick, romance, romp, round trip, rubberneck tour, run, sad work, safari, sally, sashay, saunter, school, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, send flying, send headlong, set off, shake, shamble, shimmy, shoal, shoot, shuffle, sick fancy, sidle, silence, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, single-foot, skip, skitter, skulk, slink, slip, slip up, slipup, slither, slog, sloth, slouch, snare, snarl, sniggle, solo, spill, spoil, sport, sprawl, spread the toils, spread-eagle, spring, sprint, stagger, stalk, stamp, step, step along, step lively, stomp, straddle, straggle, stray, stride, stroll, strut, stumble, stump, supinate, surmount, swagger, swing, take a fall, take a flop, take a header, take a pratfall, take a spill, take down, tangle, tap-dance, test flight, thick-coming fancies, throw, throw down, throw off, tilt, tittup, toddle, topple, topple down, topple over, tort, totter, tour, traipse, transgression, trap, travel, travels, trek, trespass, trick, trigger, trip up, troop, trot, trudge, tumble, turn, turn on, turn turtle, unsettle, unutterable sin, upset, vapor, venial sin, vision, visit, voyage, waddle, waltz, wamble, wander, whack down, whim, whimsy, wiggle, wildest dreams, wind, wobble, wrong, wrong impression, wrong step
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
TRIP Telephony Routing over IP (IP, RFC 3219)
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