Tripped vs Tripled - What's the difference?
tripped | tripled |
(trip)
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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(triple)
Made up of three related elements, often matching
Three times the quantity
Designed for three users
Folded in three; composed of three layers
Having three aspects; very ambiguous.
(music) Of time, three times as fast as very fast.
(obsolete) One of three; third.
(informal) A drink with three portions of alcohol.
(US) A hamburger with three patties.
(baseball) A three-base hit
(curling) A takeout shot in which three stones are removed from play.
(mathematics, computing) A sequence of three elements or 3-tuple.
To multiply by three
(baseball) To get a three-base hit
To become three times as large
To serve or operate as (something), in addition to two other functions.
* 1982 , Popular Mechanics, Best tools for your electronics workbench (volume 157, number 1, page 106, January 1982)
* 2011 , Mel LeCompte, The Tee Cotton Bowl
As verbs the difference between tripped and tripled
is that tripped is past tense of trip while tripled is past tense of triple.tripped
English
Verb
(head)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
(-)tripled
English
Verb
(head)triple
English
(wikipedia triple)Adjective
(-)- The triple markings on this vase are quite unique.
- Give me a triple serving of mashed potatoes.
- a triple room
- a triple meaning
- (Shakespeare)
Noun
(en noun)- I've had a hard day, make that a triple .
- I'd like a triple with cheese.
- The shortstop hit a triple to lead off the ninth.
Derived terms
* triplestoreVerb
(tripl)- The company tripled their earnings per share over last quarter.
- The batter tripled into the gap.
- Our earnings have tripled in the last year.
- Radio Shack's All-Purpose Crimper/Cutter ($9.95) doubles as a wire stripper and triples as a bolt cutter.
- Examination rooms contain shelves overstuffed with football helmets, autographed equipment and even rugby gear. If the office doubles as a mini-museum, it also triples as a minichapel.