Trip vs Stop - What's the difference?
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A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
* (Alexander Pope)
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A stumble or misstep.
(figurative) An error; a failure; a mistake.
* (John Milton)
* Harte
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)
(obsolete) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
* (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
* (John Dryden)
* South
(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.
A flock of wigeons.
(Webster 1913)
To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot.
To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble.
* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc.
* John Locke
* South
* Dryden
(obsolete) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
* Shakespeare
To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
To be activated, as by a signal or an event.
To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
To journey, to make a trip.
(dated) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
* Milton
* Dryden
(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.
(poker slang) Of or relating to .
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(label) To cease moving.
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(label) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
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(label) To close or block an opening.
To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
(label) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
* R. D. Blackmore
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(label) To tarry.
(label) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
(label) To punctuate.
* Landor
(label) To make fast; to stopper.
A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
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* Sir Isaac Newton
* John Locke
A device intended to block the path of a moving object; as, a door stop.
(label) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis; a plosive.
A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
* Daniel
* Rogers
A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
(label) A button that activates the stop function.
(label) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
(label) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
(label) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
(label) An f-stop.
(label) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
(label) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
Prone to halting or hesitation.
In engineering terms the difference between trip and stop
is that trip is a mechanical or electrical cutout device while stop is a device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.In obsolete terms the difference between trip and stop
is that trip is a troop of men; a host while stop is to punctuate.In nautical terms the difference between trip and stop
is that trip is to pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it while stop is to make fast; to stopper.In intransitive terms the difference between trip and stop
is that trip is to journey, to make a trip while stop is to tarry.In transitive terms the difference between trip and stop
is that trip is to activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch while stop is to close or block an opening.As an adjective trip
is of or relating to trips.As an adverb stop is
prone to halting or hesitation.As an interjection stop is
halt! stop.trip
English
Noun
(en noun)- I took a trip to London on the death of the queen.
- Imperfect words, with childish trips .
- Each seeming trip , and each digressive start.
- His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door.
- A trip of cheese.
- And watches with a trip his foe to foil.
- It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
- (Robert of Brunne)
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 woodshedVerb
- Be careful not to trip on the tree roots.
- A pedestrian was able to trip the burglar as he was running away.
- 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.
- till his tongue trip
- A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble.
- 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.
- These her women can trip me if I err.
- When we get into the factory, trip the lights.
- The alarm system tripped , throwing everyone into a panic.
- After taking the LSD, I started tripping about fairies and colors.
- Last summer we tripped to the coast.
- Come, and trip it, as you go, / On the light fantastic toe.
- She bounded by, and tripped so light / They had not time to take a steady sight.
Derived terms
* trip out * trip over * tripper * trip the light fantastic * trip up * tripwireAdjective
(-)stop
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at stuff, stump. Alternate etymology derives Proto-Germanic *stupp?n? from an assumed . This derivation, however, is doubtful, as the earliest instances of the Germanic verb do not carry the meaning of "stuff, stop with tow". Rather, these senses developed later in response to influence from similar sounding words in Latin and RomanceThe Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, "stop"..Verb
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Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
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