Way vs Trip - What's the difference?
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(lb) To do with a place or places.
#A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
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#*:The way seems difficult, and steep to scale.
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#*:The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance.
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A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
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(lb) Personal interaction.
#Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
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#Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
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(lb) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.
(lb) Speed, progress, momentum.
*1977 , (w, Richard O'Kane), Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang , Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:
*:Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way .
A degree, an amount, a sense.
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(obsolete) To travel.
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(informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.
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(slang, with positive adjective) Very.
* 2005 , Erika V. Shearin Karres, Crushes, Flirts, & Friends: A Real Girl's Guide to Boy Smarts ,
(informal) Far.
A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
* (Alexander Pope)
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A stumble or misstep.
(figurative) An error; a failure; a mistake.
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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)
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(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
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* 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.
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* 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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(wikipedia way)Etymology 1
From (etyl) wei, wai, weighe, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* waye (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.}}
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere.
citation, passage=Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
Lord Stranleigh Abroad, passage=“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way' she laughed, cackling like a hen, the ' way she talked to the waiters and the maid,
citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way . The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}
Quotations
* (path or direction) "Do you know the way to San Jose?" [Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* by way of * by the way * change one's ways * come one's way * either way * every which way * give way * go all the way * go out of one's way * have it both ways * in a way * in the way * in the way of * have a way with * have one's way * have one's wicked way * know one's way around * lose one's way * no way * no way to treat a lady * on the way * one way or another * right of way * runway * slipway * taxiway * the way things are * the way to a man's heart is through his stomach * wayfinding * way in * way of all flesh * Way of the Cross * way of the world / ways of the world * way of life * way off * way out * waybill * way to goVerb
(en verb)- on a time as they together way'd , / He made him open chalenge [...].
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*Etymology 2
Apheresis of (m).Alternative forms
* (dated)Adverb
(-)- I'm way too tired to do that.
- I'm a way better singer than she.
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- It turns out that's way more gain than you need for a keyboard, but you don't have to use all of it to benefit from the sonic characteristics.
- I'm way tired
- String theory is way cool, except for the math.
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- With all the way cool boys out there, what if you don't recognize them because you don't know what to look for? Or, what if you have a chance to pick a perfect Prince and you end up with a yucky Frog instead?
- I used to live way over there.
- The farmhouse is way down the bottom of the hill.
Synonyms
* (much) far, much, loads * (very) so, veryEtymology 3
From the sound it represents, by analogy with other velar letters such as kay'' and ''gay .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.