Trip vs Accelerate - What's the difference?

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Trip is a related term of accelerate.

As a noun trip

is trip.

As a verb accelerate is

(label) to cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.

As an adjective accelerate is

(rare) accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.

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.

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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

(-)

(poker slang) Of or relating to .

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accelerate

English

Verb

(accelerat)

(label) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.

(label) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.

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To cause a change of velocity.

(label) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.

To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.

(label) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.

(label) Grow; increase.

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Synonyms

* advance * dispatch * expedite * forward * further * hasten * quicken * speed up

Antonyms

* decelerate * retard

Derived terms

* accelerative * accelerator * accelerated motion * accelerating force

Adjective

(rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.

* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:

... a general knowledg of the definition of motion, and of the distinction of natural and violent, even and accelerate , and the like, sufficing.

References

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