Road vs Trip - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between road and trip

is that road is (obsolete) the act of riding on horseback while trip is trip.

road

English

(wikipedia road)

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) The act of riding on horseback.

(obsolete) A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.8:

There dwelt a salvage nation, which did live / Of stealth and spoile, and making nightly rode / Into their neighbours borders […].

(nautical, often, in the plural) A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor.

* 1630 , , True Travels , in Kupperman 1988, p. 38:

There delivering their fraught, they went to Scandaroone; rather to view what ships was in the Roade , than any thing else [...].

A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions.

* {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266 citation

, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road .}}

* , chapter=1

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for.}}

(figuratively) A path chosen in life or career.

* Ronald Reagan: A Time for Choosing (1964).

Where, then, is the road to peace?

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport

, tiutle= Moldova 0-5 England , passage=Hodgson may actually feel England could have scored even more but this was the perfect first step on the road to Rio in 2014 and the ideal platform for the second qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday.}}

An underground tunnel in a mine.

(US) A railway; (British) a single railway track.

(obsolete) A journey, or stage of a journey.

* Shakespeare

With easy roads he came to Leicester.

Usage notes

Often used interchangeably with street or other similar words. When usage is distinguished, a road is a route between settlements (reflecting the etymological relation with ride), as in the from London to Edinburgh, while a street is a route within a settlement (city or town), strictly speaking paved.

Hyponyms

* See also

Derived terms

* A road, A-road * access road * all roads lead to Rome * B road * back road * bump in the road * burn up the road * byroad * C road * corduroy road * crossroad * down the road * end of the road * fork in the road * frontage road * Great North road * highroad/high road * hit the road * ice road * low road * main road * middle of the road/middle-of-the-road * nonroad * offroad/off-road * on the road * one for the road * pay-per-use road * Persian Royal Road * railroad * ring road * road allowance * road apple * road case * road export * road fund licence * road gang * road hockey * road hog/road-hog * road map * road movie * road race * road rage * road rash * road sign * road to Damascus * road train * road trip * road warrior * roadability * roadbase * roadbed * roadblock * roader * roadhouse * roadie * roadkill * roadless * roadness * roadroller * roadrunner * roadshow * roadside * roadstead * roadster * roadway * roadwork * roadworks * roadworthy * rocky road * service road * slip road/sliproad * take the high road * Tobacco Road * trunk road * where the rubber meets the road * winter road * yellow brick road/Yellow Brick Road

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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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