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Definition: Tripper |
TripperNoun1. A walker or runner who trips and almost falls. 2. A tourist who is visiting sights of interest. 3. A catch mechanism that acts as a switch; "the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | A mechanical or electronic device which may control lights, film advance, or the beginning or end of operation; e. g. , in a rotary camera the tripper is actuated by the moving document. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A device or mechanism that trips, as a device for causing the load on a conveyor to be discharged into a hopper or other receptacle. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. A device in the run of a conveyor comprising two free drums around which the belt passes S-fashion b. A device for discharging material from a belt conveyor c. A double pulley that turns a short section of a conveyor belt upside down in order to dump its load into a side chute d. A device or mechanism that trips, as a device for causing the load on a conveyor to be discharged into a hopper or other receptacle e. An automatic car dump. f. A device for tipping and dumping the skip at the top of the blastfurnace. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: TripperSynonyms: excursionist (n), rubberneck (n), sightseer (n), stumbler (n), trip (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tripper |
| English words defined with "tripper": trip. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tripper": wing belt tripper. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tripper" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (clap, gonorrhea), Hungarian (clap, gonorrhea, gonorrhoea). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Tripper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Tripper" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "tripper": weekend tripper. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "tripper": day-tripper, night-tripper. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tripper jack | 40 | tripper wheels | 4 |
tripper | 39 | beatles day lyrics tripper | 4 |
day tripper | 28 | storage tripper | 4 |
actor company hit jack played show three tripper | 13 | day maclaren tripper | 3 |
day lyrics tripper | 10 | dr john night tripper | 3 |
space tripper | 8 | time tripper | 3 |
day tab tripper | 7 | night tripper | 2 |
company jack three tripper | 7 | fire tripper | 2 |
tripper usb | 6 | old town tripper | 2 |
company hit jack show three tripper | 5 | mexican tripper | 2 |
tripper johnson | 5 | usb 2.0 tripper | 2 |
beatles day tripper | 5 | 20gb tripper | 2 |
conveyor tripper | 5 | canoe old town tripper | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "tripper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | turist (rubberneck, tourer, tourist, visitor), ekskursant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مسافر (hiker, passenger, traveler, traveling, traveller, travelling, voyager), السائح (tourist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | турист (excursionist, hiker, rubberneck, sightseer, tourist), екскурзиант (excursionist, holiday maker), излетник (excursionist, tourist, visitor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 分离机构. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | turista (hiker, holiday maker, sightseer, tourist, traveler, traveller, visitor), výletník (excursionist, hiker, holidaymaker, vacationist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | udløser (adjustable trip), automatisk optagelseskontaktsning fra kam. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verstelbare klink (adjustable trip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | touriste (traveller), vacancier, déclic culbuteur (adjustable trip), chariot-verseur, chariot de jetée, chariot déverseur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ausflügler (day-tripper, trippers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκοντάφτων, βαδίζων ελαφρώσ, ταξιδευτήσ (voyager). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | turista (excursionist, hiker, holiday maker, holiday-maker, rambler, sightseer, tourist, touristic), csillebuktató (rocker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scatto regolabile (adjustable trip), gitante (excursionist), carrelli scaricatori (delivery jib, dump car, throwing off belt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | トリコモナス膣炎 (TNT, trick, trick play, trick work, trickster, tricky, tricolore, trinitrotoluen, Trinity, trip, trip meter, tripping, vaginal trichomoniasis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | トリッペル . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | keayrtagh (caller, circulating, occasional, periodic, touristic, visitor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ippertray turista (rubberneck, tourist), excursionista barato. (various references) turist (tourist), excursionist (excursionist, pleasurer, tourist). (various references) экскурсант (camper, excursionist, holidaymaker). (various references) turista (tourist, vacationer, vacationist), izletnik (excursionist, hiker, holiday maker, picnicker). (various references) excursionista (day-tripper, excursionist, hiker, picnicker, rambler, sightseer, tourist, visitor), escape automático (adjustable trip), disparador (discharger, release, trigger). (various references) söndagsfirare, nöjesresenär. (various references) turist (dude, rubberneck, sightseer, tourist, vacationist), geziye çıkan kimse. (various references) той, хто ходить швидко і легко, екскурсант (camper, excursionist). (various references) người ngoéo chân, người đi chơi người ngáng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tripper": trippers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tripper": stripper. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tripper": strippers. (additional references) | |
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"Tripper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tapper, trappeur, treppe, tripeg, triper, trippen, trippery, trippler, tripyer, trppe, Truppe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tripper" (pronounced tri"per) |
| 5 | t r i" p er | stripper. |
| 4 | -r i" p er | ripper. |
| 3 | -i" p er | chipper, clipper, dipper, flipper, gipper, Hipper, kipper, Lipper, nipper, shipper, skipper, slipper, Tipper, zipper. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-p-p-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: ripper, tipper. | |
-2 letters: piper, pipet, prier, riper, trier, tripe. | |
-3 letters: peri, perp, pert, pier, pipe, prep, repp, ripe, rite, tier, tire, trip. | |
-4 letters: err, ire, pep, per, pet, pie, pip, pit, rei, rep, ret, rip, tie, tip. | |
-5 letters: er, et, it, pe, pi, re, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-p-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: peripter, preprint, stripper, trippers, trippier. | |
+2 letters: peripters, preprints, prescript, propriety, strippers, stroppier. | |
+3 letters: preportion, preprinted, prescripts, propertied, properties, proprietor, prosperity, protreptic, wiretapper. | |
+4 letters: appreciator, appropriate, dipterocarp, expropriate, impropriety, partnership, praetorship, preparation, preparative, preportions, preprinting, proprietary, proprieties, proprietors, protreptics, reapportion, superprofit, superscript, wiretappers. | |
+5 letters: appreciators, appreciatory, appropriated, appropriates, coproprietor, coprosperity, dipterocarps, expropriated, expropriates, expropriator, hypertrophic, intercropped, partnerships, peremptorily, periphrastic, perpetrating, perpetration, perspiration, perspiratory, petrographic, praetorships, preceptorial, preceptories, precipitator, preoperative, preparations, preparatives, preportioned, prepuberties, prescription, prescriptive, proportioned, proprietress, proscriptive, prosperities, pteridosperm, pyromorphite, reapportions, superpatriot, superprofits, superscripts, tropospheric. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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