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parade | trip |

As a verb parade

is .

As a noun trip is

trip.

parade

English

(wikipedia parade)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd.
    • The floats and horses in the parade were impressive, but the marching bands were really amazing.
  • Any succession, series, or display of items.
    • The dinner was a parade of courses, each featuring foods more elaborate than the last.
    a parade of shops
  • A line of goslings led by one parent and often trailed by the other.
  • The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.
  • Pompous show; formal display or exhibition.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade .
  • (Gallicism) Posture of defense; guard.
  • * John Locke
    • when they are not in parade , and upon their guard
  • A public walk; a promenade; now used in street names.
    • He was parked on Chester Parade .

    Derived terms

    * hit parade * military parade * victory parade * pride parade * techno parade * parade of horribles * ticker tape parade * rain on someone's parade

    Verb

    (parad)
  • To march or to display.
    • They paraded around the field, simply to show their discipline.
  • To display or show; to exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.
    • They paraded dozens of fashions past the crowd.
    Parading all her sensibility. Byron.
  • To march past.
    • After the field show, it is customary to parade the stands before exiting the field.

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    trip

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
    • I took a trip to London on the death of the queen.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.}}
  • A stumble or misstep.
  • (figurative) An error; a failure; a mistake.
  • * (John Milton)
    • Imperfect words, with childish trips .
  • * Harte
    • Each seeming trip , and each digressive start.
  • 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 or electrical cutout device.
  • A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
  • * Sir (Walter Scott)
    • His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door.
  • (obsolete) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
  • * (Geoffrey Chaucer)
    • A trip of cheese.
  • The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
  • * (John Dryden)
    • And watches with a trip his foe to foil.
  • * South
    • It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
  • (nautical) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
  • (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
  • (obsolete) A troop of men; a host.
    • (Robert of Brunne)
  • A flock of wigeons.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * bad trip * boat trip * business trip * day trip * ego trip * fam trip * field trip * guilt trip * head trip * power trip * road trip * round trip * trip down memory lane * trip hop * trippy * trip to the woodshed

    Verb

  • To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot.
    • Be careful not to trip on the tree roots.
  • To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble.
    • A pedestrian was able to trip the burglar as he was running away.
  • * 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
    • Early in his boyhood he had learned to form ropes by twisting and tying long grasses together, and with these he was forever tripping Tublat or attempting to hang him from some overhanging branch.
  • To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc.
  • * John Locke
    • till his tongue trip
  • * South
    • A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble.
  • * Dryden
    • 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.
  • (obsolete) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
  • * Shakespeare
    • These her women can trip me if I err.
  • To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
    • When we get into the factory, trip the lights.
  • To be activated, as by a signal or an event.
    • The alarm system tripped , throwing everyone into a panic.
  • To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
    • After taking the LSD, I started tripping about fairies and colors.
  • To journey, to make a trip.
    • Last summer we tripped to the coast.
  • (dated) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
  • * Milton
    • Come, and trip it, as you go, / On the light fantastic toe.
  • * Dryden
    • She bounded by, and tripped so light / They had not time to take a steady sight.
  • (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
  • (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.

    • Derived terms

    * trip out * trip over * tripper * trip the light fantastic * trip up * tripwire

    Adjective

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  • (poker slang) Of or relating to .
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