Transition vs Trip - What's the difference?
transition | trip |
The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
* , chapter=12
, title= * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=So, depending on how he chooses to govern over the next four years, Mr. Obama may yet have a chance to reset the stale debate in Washington, or at least to hasten the transition from one moment to the next. His re-election opens the door further for the post-’60s generation, even if it does not quite clear the room.}}
A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
(music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
(genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
(some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
(medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
(education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
(skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
(LGBT) The process or act of changing from one gender role to another, or of bringing one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity.
To make a .
To bring through a ; to change.
(LGBT) To change from one gender role to another, or bring one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity.
* 2006 , Taylor J. Holder, All Points in Between: Shifting on the Scale of Sex and Gender (ISBN 0595399274):
* 2009 , Julia Serano, Whipping Girl (ISBN 0786747919):
* 2009 , Mara Drummond, Transitions - A Guide To Transitioning For Transsexuals And Their Families , page 71:
* 2012 , Kevin Alderson, Counseling LGBTI Clients (ISBN 1412987180), page 195:
A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
* (Alexander Pope)
*
, 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)
* 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 .
----
As nouns the difference between transition and trip
is that transition is the process of change from one form, state, style or place to another while trip is trip.As a verb transition
is to make a.transition
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.
citation
Usage notes
In the United Kingdom education system, the noun is used to define any move within or between schools, for example, a move from one year group to the next. Contrast with transfer which is used to define a move from one school to another, for example from primary school to secondary school. In the United States education system the, noun is used to define a move from a one phase of an to another specifically regarding the child's or adult's progress from more or less special educational support to greater independent living.Verb
(en verb)- The soldier was transitioned from a combat role to a strategic role.
- Eric told me that after he transitioned , he wanted to learn to fish and all the things his father never taught him.
- And simply being accepted into one of these programs was not a guarantee that one would be allowed to transition . First, the trans person had to undergo extensive, sometimes indefinite, periods of psychotherapy
- If the transitioning' person leaves the family home, there will be moving costs, and costs associated with the acquisition of another home or the renting of an apartment. If the non-' transitioning spouse leaves the family home,
- After he transitioned , he changed jobs so he could go stealth, hoping that no one would discover he was once a woman.
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.