Crossword clues for tripping
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trip \Trip\ (tr[i^]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tripped (tr[i^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Tripping.] [OE. trippen; akin to D. trippen, Dan. trippe, and E. tramp. See Tramp.]
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To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5.
This horse anon began to trip and dance.
--Chaucer.Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe.
--Milton.She bounded by, and tripped so light They had not time to take a steady sight.
--Dryden. To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe.
To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false step; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble.
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Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail. ``Till his tongue trip.''
--Locke.A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble.
--South.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.
--Dryden.What? dost thou verily trip upon a word?
--R. Browning.
Tripping \Trip"ping\, n.
Act of one who, or that which, trips.
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A light dance.
Other trippings to be trod of lighter toes.
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(Naut.) The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.
Tripping line (Naut.), a small rope attached to the topgallant or royal yard, used to trip the yard, and in lowering it to the deck; also, a line used in letting go the anchor.
--Luce.
Tripping \Trip"ping\, a.
Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.
(Her.) Having the right forefoot lifted, the others remaining on the ground, as if he were trotting; trippant; -- said of an animal, as a hart, buck, and the like, used as a bearing.
Wiktionary
1 quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly 2 (context heraldry not comparable English) Having the right forefoot lifted, the others remaining on the ground, as if trotting; trippant. n. The act of one who trips. v
(present participle of trip English)
WordNet
n. a journey for some purpose (usually including the return); "he took a trip to the shopping center"
a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs; "an acid trip"
an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall; "he blamed his slip on the ice"; "the jolt caused many slips and a few spills" [syn: slip]
an exciting or stimulting experience [syn: head trip]
a catch mechanism that acts as a switch; "the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water" [syn: tripper]
a light or nimble tread; "he heard the trip of women's feet overhead"
an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep" [syn: trip-up, stumble, misstep]
adj. characterized by a buoyant rhythm; "an easy lilting stride"; "the flute broke into a light lilting air"; "a swinging pace"; "a graceful swingy walk"; "a tripping singing measure" [syn: lilting, swinging, swingy]
moving easily and quickly; nimble; "the dancer was light and graceful"; "a lightsome buoyant step"; "walked with a light tripping step" [syn: light, lightsome]
v. miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root" [syn: stumble]
cause to stumble; "The questions on the test tripped him up" [syn: trip up]
put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits" [syn: actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off]
get high, stoned, or drugged; "He trips every weekend" [syn: trip out, turn on, get off]
See trip
Wikipedia
Tripping may refer to
- a psychedelic experience
- Tripping (ice hockey), a penalty infraction
- Tripping (pipe), the act of running or pulling drill pipe into or out of a wellbore on a drilling rig
- "Tripping" (song), a 2005 single by Robbie Williams
- tripping.com, a metasearch engine for vacation homes
"Tripping" is a song by British pop singer Robbie Williams, it was the first single from his 2005 album Intensive Care. The single was backed with the track " Make Me Pure", also from the same album, it was sent to radio stations around the world.
Williams himself calls the song "something like a mini gangster opera" and "kind of cabaret act reggae". The rolling rhythm of the song owes much to the early work of The Clash. During the chorus Williams reaches an extremely high disco-like head voice. Lyrically the song is a bit darker than previous songs. It tells the tale of gangsters and how they "don't kill their own and they all love their mothers", before an anguished chorus of "I've taken as much as I'm willing to take". The opening lyrics "First they ignore you, then laugh at you and hate you. Then they fight you, then you win" is a paraphrase from a quote commonly attributed to Mahatma Gandhi.
The song was the 19th best selling of 2005 in the UK.
A tripping penalty in ice hockey is called by the referee when a player trips an opposing player with their stick, or uses their skate against the other players skate, causing them to lose balance and fall ("slew footing").
A tripping call usually results in a two-minute minor penalty on the player that caused the infraction. However, if the player is called for slew footing, he receives a match penalty. If the player was tripped on a breakaway (with no opponents to pass other than the goaltender), a tripping call may instead result in a penalty shot for the tripped player.
Tripping pipe (or "Making a round trip" or simply "Making a trip") is the physical act of pulling the drill string out of the wellbore and then running it back in. This is done by physically breaking out or disconnecting (when pulling out of the hole) every other 2 or 3 (in 1959 Superior Oil Co barge 11 pulled pipe in 4[Citation Needed]joint segments) joints of drill pipe at a time (called a stand) and racking them vertically in the derrick. When feasible the driller will start each successive trip on a different "break" so that after several trips fresh pipe dope will have been applied (when running back in the hole) to every segment of the drill string.
The most typical reason for tripping pipe is to replace a worn-out drill bit. Though there are many problems that occur to warrant the tripping of pipe. Downhole tools such as MWD (measurement while drilling), LWD (logging while drilling) or mud motors break down quite often. Another common reason for tripping is to replace damaged drill pipe. It is important to get the pipe out of the wellbore quickly and safely before it can snap.
Usage examples of "tripping".
Since the servant balked at tripping the latch, Lirenda was left the irrevocable choice of whether to proceed or turn back.
I kept moving the boat downstream, and Daubray followed me along the batture, tripping over cypress knees and getting his trousers wet while the fog got thicker and thicker.
The Cozzano campaign also issued a blooper reel of its own, showing the incumbent President and Tip McLane tripping over their shoelaces and slurring words, and suggested that these two might want to have neurological exams of their own.
Cozzano campaign also issued a blooper reel of its own, showing the incumbent President and Tip McLane tripping over their shoelaces and slurring words, and suggested that these two might want to have neurological exams of their own.
At the bottom they were bifurcated, trifurcated, multifurcated into rooty legs or leggy roots on which they wandered about in a rather desultory way, sometimes tripping each other out of what seemed to be sheer ill nature.
I was born, those Servants who made it a point to fraternize with me, and the three demarchic news-scribes of the Workfast Proclamatory, doing their work of tripping me up as best they could.
Again awake as the plane approached Baguio, I glimpsed the stark arrogant mountains tripping and falling among themselves, tumbling into the waiting, self-righteous valleys, and then the soft plateau resting above the gigantic disorder.
At last the indices on the bombsight crossed, tripping away the eight 500-pounders one after the other.
Ordinarily, this would have been a simple brushback with an old man straggling to jump for his life and the younger man tripping over his own feet.
Jimmy leapt aside and let the clothbound thing stumble into the rapidly spreading flames, tripping it as it went past.
Chyna waited until the Doberman dropped from the window again before she reached to the floor and picked up the loop of excess chain to avoid tripping over it.
Grey turned his head in that direction, but the boy ducked his head immediately and moved on, almost tripping over the cat, which was wending in and out of his legs.
Now the fairgoers were tripping over each other in their haste to put room between themselves and the Jansai truck.
Bodies tumbled in front of Fannia, almost tripping him as he backed up.
Others staggered around the feedlot, tripping and fainting, their woolly faces twitching.