Tripp vs Stumble - What's the difference?
tripp | stumble |
A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
An error or blunder.
A clumsy walk.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
* Sir Walter Scott
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, title= To make a mistake or have trouble.
To cause to stumble or trip.
(figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
* Milton
* John Locke
To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on'', ''upon'', or ''against .
* Dryden
* C. Smart
As a proper noun tripp
is .As a noun stumble is
a fall, trip or substantial misstep.As a verb stumble is
to trip or fall; to walk clumsily.stumble
English
Noun
(en noun)The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
Synonyms
* (a blunder) blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, thinko * See alsoVerb
(stumbl)- He stumbled up the dark avenue.
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.}}
- False and dazzling fires to stumble men.
- One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.
- Ovid stumbled , by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath.
- Forth as she waddled in the brake, / A grey goose stumbled on a snake.
