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Trip vs Outgoing - What's the difference?

trip | outgoing |

As nouns the difference between trip and outgoing

is that trip is trip while outgoing is the act of leaving or going out; exit, departure.

As an adjective outgoing is

comfortable in social settings and interactions; confident in dealing with people especially in meeting new people; gregarious.

As a verb outgoing is

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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.
  • *
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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 .
  • ----

    outgoing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Comfortable in social settings and interactions; confident in dealing with people especially in meeting new people; gregarious.
  • Tom is very outgoing and enjoys meeting people; his brother, on the other hand, is painfully shy.
  • * 2003 , Bernardo J. Carducci, Lisa Kaiser, The Shyness Breakthrough , page 124,
  • Quieter parents, who prefer a less stimulating lifestyle, may be baffled and challenged by these same outgoing kids.
  • * 1996 , Stanley I. Greenspan, Jacqueline Salmon, The Challenging Child: Understanding, Raising, and Enjoying the Five “Difficult” Types of Children , page 308,
  • The outgoing former leader may have difficulty slowing down, being reflective, and studying and may be insensitive in a close relationship.
  • * 2006 , Direct Selling Women's Alliance, More Build It Big: 101 Insider Secrets from Top Direct Selling Experts , page 264,
  • Think of it this way: Some people are more outgoing , while others are more reserved.
  • * 2010 , Ruth Ames, This Totally Bites! , back cover,
  • Twelve-year-old Emma-Rose Paley has always felt very different from her bubbly, outgoing parents.
  • (not comparable) Going out, on its way out.
  • Is there any outgoing post?
  • * 1917 August 27, ,
  • In the neighborhood of each defensive sea area the following entrances are designated for incoming and outgoing' vessels: ''Atlantic''. Designated entrance for outgoing vessels: Canal prism.
  • * 1922 , ', Volume I, Part III,
  • There is struggle for food, accentuated by the fact that small items tend to be swept away by the outgoing tide or to sink down the slope to deep water.
  • * 1946 , , Chapter 26,
  • By KRIYA, the outgoing life force is not wasted and abused in the senses, but constrained to reunite with subtler spinal energies.
  • (not comparable) Being replaced in office (while still in office but after election has determined that he/she will be replaced).
  • The outgoing politician wasn't too disappointed he'd lost the election; he was tired of political infighting.
  • * 1893 , ,
  • that, by an arrangement between the outgoing' and incoming marshal, the latter was to have the fees earned upon all writs in the hands of the deputies of the former at the date the office changed hands. It further appeared that the ' outgoing marshal made no claim to these fees.
  • * 1957 , ,
  • The outgoing Board of Governors shall designate for membership on the Board the ten members most advanced in the technology of atomic energy including the production of source materials,
  • * 1998 , ,
  • As of this day too, the Seventh Development Cabinet is outgoing and to the ministers I express my thanks.

    Antonyms

    * incoming

    Derived terms

    * outgoingly * outgoingness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of leaving or going out; exit, departure.
  • * Bible, Psalms lxv. 8
  • the outgoings of the morning and evening
  • * Jonathan Edwards
  • (chiefly, in the plural) Money that leaves one's possession; expenditure, outlay, expense
  • The extreme limit; the place of ending.
  • * Bible, Josh, xviii. 19
  • The outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea, at the south end of Jordan.

    Synonyms

    * outgang

    Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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