trip
English
/tɹɪp/
noun
Definitions
- a journey; an excursion or jaunt
- a stumble or misstep
- (figurative) an error; a failure; a mistake
- a period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations
- a faux pas, a social error
- intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition
- (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
Etymology
Derived from Middle English trippen (skip, tread step lightly and nimbly, dance) derived from Old French triper (hop dance around, strike with the feet) derived from Middle Dutch trippen (hop, skip, trip, trample, stamp).
Origin
Middle Dutch
trippen
Gloss
hop, skip, trip, trample, stamp
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Tripgate English
- atrip English
- business English
- business trip English
- cock English
- code English
- countertrippant English
- day English
- daytrip English
- flare English
- line English
- mate English
- midtrip English
- multitrip English
- overtrip English
- pretrip English
- robotrip English
- round English
- round trip English
- round-tripper English
- tripcock English
- tripcode English
- tripfag English
- tripflare English
- triplike English
- tripline English
- tripman English
- tripmate English
- trippant English
- tripper English
- tripperish English
- trippest English
- trippeth English
- trippily English
- trippiness English
- trippy English
- tripsome English
- tripster English
- tripwire English
- wire English
- Trip German
- トリップ Japanese
- trip Middle English
- trippe Middle English
- trippen Middle English
- trippere Middle English
- trippyng Middle English
- tryp Middle English
- triper Old French
- trippen Middle Dutch
- pagtripan Tagalog
- trip Tagalog
- טריפ Hebrew (modern)
- day
- wire
- code
- cock
- mate
- line
- atrip
- flare
- round
- trippy
- midtrip
- tripman
- pretrip
- daytrip
- tripfag
- tripper
- tripline
- trippeth
- trippest
- overtrip
- tripster
- business
- Tripgate
- triplike
- robotrip
- tripcode
- trippant
- tripmate
- tripcock
- tripsome
- trippily
- tripwire
- multitrip
- tripflare
- tripperish
- trippiness
- round trip
- round-tripper
- business trip
- countertrippant