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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
trip
    n 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, trip]
    4: an exciting or stimulating experience [syn: trip, head
       trip]
    5: a catch mechanism that acts as a switch; "the pressure
       activates the tripper and releases the water" [syn:
       tripper, trip]
    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, trip-up, stumble, misstep]
    v 1: miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the
         tree root" [syn: stumble, trip]
    2: cause to stumble; "The questions on the test tripped him up"
       [syn: trip, trip up]
    3: make a trip for pleasure [syn: travel, trip, jaunt]
    4: put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate
       the circuits" [syn: trip, actuate, trigger, activate,
       set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off]
    5: get high, stoned, or drugged; "He trips every weekend" [syn:
       trip, trip out, turn on, get off]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Trip \Trip\ (tr[i^]p), v. i. [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.]
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   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.
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            This horse anon began to trip and dance. --Chaucer.
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            Come, and trip it, as you go,
            On the light fantastic toe.           --Milton.
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            She bounded by, and tripped so light
            They had not time to take a steady sight. --Dryden.
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   2. To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip
      to Europe.
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   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.
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   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.
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            A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind
            understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip
            and stumble.                          --South.
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            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.
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            What? dost thou verily trip upon a word? --R.
                                                  Browning.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Trip \Trip\, n.
   1. A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a
      skip.
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            His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the
            trip of a light female step glide to or from the
            door.                                 --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   2. A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt.
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            I took a trip to London on the death of the queen.
                                                  --Pope.
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   3. A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or
      balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake.
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            Imperfect words, with childish trips. --Milton.
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            Each seeming trip, and each digressive start.
                                                  --Harte.
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   4. A small piece; a morsel; a bit. [Obs.] "A trip of cheese."
      --Chaucer.
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   5. A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his
      antagonist to lose footing.
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            And watches with a trip his foe to foil. --Dryden.
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            It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a
            man to the ground.                    --South.
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   6. (Naut.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to
      windward.
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   7. A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc. [Prov. Eng. &
      Scott.]
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   8. A troop of men; a host. [Obs.] --Robert of Brunne.
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   9. (Zool.) A flock of widgeons.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Trip \Trip\, v. t.
   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.
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            The words of Hobbes's defense trip up the heels of
            his cause.                            --Abp.
                                                  Bramhall.
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   2. (Fig.): To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an
      obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail.
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            To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword.
                                                  --Shak.
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   3. To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict; also called
      trip up. [R.]
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            These her women can trip me if I err. --Shak.
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   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.
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   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.
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5. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
TRIP
       Telephony Routing over IP (IP, RFC 3219)
       

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