trip
1. a journey for some purpose (usually including the return) (Freq. 31)
- he took a trip to the shopping center
• Hypernyms:
journey, journeying
• Hyponyms:
flight, junket, round trip, run, trek,
errand, service call
2. a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs
- an acid trip
• Hypernyms:
hallucination
3. an exciting or stimulating experience
• Syn:
head trip
• Hypernyms:
experience
4. 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
• Hypernyms:
mishap, misadventure, mischance
• Hyponyms:
spill, tumble, fall
5. a catch mechanism that acts as a switch
- the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water
• Syn:
tripper
• Derivationally related forms:
trip (for: tripper)
• Hypernyms:
catch, stop
6. a light or nimble tread
- he heard the trip of women's feet overhead
• Hypernyms:
step
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
• Derivationally related forms:
stumble (for: stumble), trip up (for: trip-up)
• Hypernyms:
blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall,
foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo
1. miss a step and fall or nearly fall (Freq. 2)
- She stumbled over the tree root
• Syn:
stumble
• Derivationally related forms:
tripper, stumbler (for: stumble)
• Hypernyms:
move
• Hyponyms:
founder
• Entailment:
walk
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
2. cause to stumble
- The questions on the test tripped him up
• Syn:
trip up
• Cause:
stumble
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
3. make a trip for pleasure
• Syn:
travel, jaunt
• Derivationally related forms:
jaunt (for: jaunt), tripper, traveller (for: travel), traveler (for: travel)
• Hyponyms:
junketeer, junket, travel to, visit, travel,
journey, ply, run, commute, peregrinate
• Cause:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s somebody PP
4. get high, stoned, or drugged
- He trips every weekend
• Syn:
trip out, turn on, get off
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s on something
5. 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
• Derivationally related forms:
spark (for: spark), activation (for: activate), trigger (for: trigger), actuator (for: actuate), act (for: actuate), actuation (for: actuate), tripper
• Hypernyms:
initiate, pioneer
• Cause:
happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur,
pass, fall out, come about, take place
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
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