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Definition: Tripping |
TrippingAdjective1. 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". 2. Moving easily and quickly; nimble; "the dancer was light and graceful"; "a lightsome buoyant step"; "walked with a light tripping step". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tripping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | The opening of a circuit-breaker by either manual or automatic control of protective devices. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The opening of a circuit breaker by either manual or automatic control of protective devices. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | Pulling the drill pipe from the hole to change the bit and running the drill pipe and the new bit back in the hole. On deep wells, round trips or "trips", as they are more commonly called, may take 24 hours, or three 8-hour shifts. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. The process of pulling and/or lowering drill-string equipment in a borehole b. To open a latch or locking device, thereby allowing a door or gate toopen to empty the contents of a skip, bailer, etc. (references) | |
Slang | Adjective. Source: Heather, a member of the AKA's. Definition: To overreact. Context: Casual conversation used between the AKA's. Social Source: AKA'S (Aoistair, Kenny, and Amon) . Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: TrippingSynonyms: light (adj), lightsome (adj), lilting (adj), swinging (adj), swingy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Nimble, nimble as a squirrel; agile; light-footed, nimble-footed; featly, tripping. |
Discovery | Open the eyes to; see through, see daylight, see in its true colors, see the cloven foot; detect; catch, catch tripping. |
Elegance | Graceful, easy, readable, fluent, flowing, tripping; unaffected, natural, unlabored; mellifluous; euphonious, euphemism, euphemistic; numerose, rhythmical. |
Error | In error, under an error; Noun: mistaken; Verb: tripping; Verb: out, out in one's reckoning; aberrant; beside the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the truth, way off, far off; astray; (at fault); on a false scent, on the wrong scent; in the wrong box, outside the ballpark; at cross purposes, all in the wrong; all out. |
Failure | Adjective: unsuccessful, successless; failing, tripping;Verb: at fault; unfortunate. |
Ignorance | In the dark; benighted, belated; blinded, blindfolded; hoodwinked; misinformed; au bout de son latin, at the end of his tether, at fault; at sea; (uncertain); caught tripping. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tripping |
| English words defined with "tripping": light, lightsome, lilting ♦ Snotter, swinging, swingy ♦ Trippant. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tripping": Accidental Falls, Ass's Bridge ♦ drag anchor ♦ earth leakage protection ♦ Flashboards, floating anchor ♦ high on drugs ♦ interdependent mechanical system ♦ Lie hath no Feet ♦ molly-guard ♦ spiral out ♦ THREADING-MACHINE SETTER ♦ undervoltage relays. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tripping": Gambit ♦ Trip. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tripping" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (tripping). |
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Screenplays | I'm tripping with the Bradys! (A Very Brady Sequel; writing credit: Sherwood Schwartz; Harry Elfont) | |
Lyrics | We're tripping all over ourselves and pulling each other down (Where's The Love; performing artist: Hanson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Thumb Tripping (1972) Tripping Through the Tropics (1934) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Work-over rig/well completion tripping in the hole with rods. Credit: Merv Coleman. |  | Tripping her up!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Man tripping and falling down a flight of stairs. |
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Health | In some cases, symptoms initially affect one of the legs, and patients experience awkwardness when walking or running or they notice that they are tripping or stumbling more often. (references) | |
Falling and tripping are usually the first noticeable symptoms of IBM. For some patients the disorder begins with weakness in the hands causing difficulty with gripping, pinching, and buttoning. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Rush Limbaugh | Your foot might be ready to stomp out that cigarette, but if you're not careful, you could find yourself tripping over that same foot down the road. |
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| "Tripping" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.96% of the time. "Tripping" is used about 147 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 97.96% | 144 | 26,339 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.68% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.68% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.68% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 147 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tripping": catch smb. tripping ♦ catch tripping ♦ caught tripping ♦ round tripping ♦ Tripping line ♦ tripping up. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tripping": tripping-up. | |
Ending with "tripping": day-tripping, ego-tripping, night-tripping, power-tripping, round-tripping. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "tripping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i lehtë (airy, downhill, easy, effortless, ethereal, etherial, expedite, facile, feathery, flimsy, frothy, gauzy, glib, gossamer, gossamery, light, lightweight, mild, pale, ready, sheer, simple, slight, subtile, subtle, toilless, trifling, walkaway, weak, weightless), heqje (abolition, clearing, collection, deduction, Defeasance, deletion, deprivation, derogation, dismissal, dismission, disposal, dispossession, ejection, elimination, evacuation, excision, extirpation, extraction, jump, omission, out, outage, privation, recall, relegation, removal, rending, resection, reserve, skip, stripping, subtraction), fikje (damping, extinction, shutdown), ecje e lehtë (trip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | свободен (at large, available, disengaged, disposable, easeful, easy, exempt, facile, familiar, fetterless, floating, fluent, footloose, free, glib, go-as-you-please, immune, independent, intestate, leisure, loose, neglige, off, open, otiose, quit, spare, unbending, unbound, unbuttoned, uncommitted, unconstrained, unforced, unreserved, unrestricted, unstudied, untenanted, untrammelled, vacant, void, wide), бързоходен (high speed, rakish), бързоног (fleet of foot, fleet-footed, light footed, light-legged), бърз и лек, плавен (easy, flowing, fluent, fluid, graceful, light, liquid), изключващ (exceptive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 绊' (stumble, Stumbled, stumbling, Tripped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | trip (delysid, hallucination, LSD-25, lysergyc acid diethylamide, round trip, round tripping, to rap, to riff, trip), udkobling (declutching, disconnecting, disengaging, isolation), knækpunktsmast (opening, spurious opening), aktivering (activation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verbreken (break), uitschakelen (cut, cut a connection, eliminate, shut off, stop, switch off, turn off), in-en-uit cyclus (round trip, round tripping, trip), foutieve uitschakeling (opening, spurious opening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | virheellinen avaus (opening, spurious opening), laukaisu (launch), avaaminen (debridement, incision, section), ajokerta (impression, round trip, round tripping, trip, turn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | triple (in triplicate, treble, triple, triplex), manoeuvre du train de tiges (round trip, round tripping, trip), déclenchement intempestif (accidental triggering), déclenchement (trigger, triggering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Fehlausloesung (accidental triggering, inadvertent operation, opening, spurious opening, spurious operation, unwanted operation), Ein-und Ausfahren (round trip, round tripping, trip), Ein-und Ausbau (round trip, round tripping, trip), Ausschalten (deactivate, disconnect, eliminate, kill, oust, power down, put off, put out, shut off, shut out, switch off, to disable, to discard, to disconnect, to switch off, to turn off, turn off, uncouple). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κράτηση (arestment, arrest, custody, deduction, hold, internment, lockup, reservation, retention), σκοντάπτων (stumbler), ελαφρόσ και γοργόσ, ελαφρόσ χορόσ, ελαφρό βάδισμα (amble), άνοιγμα,απόζευξη, λανθασμένη απόζευξη (opening, spurious opening), λανθασμένη αποσύνδεση (opening, spurious opening), ανάλαφροσ (light), ολική εξαγωγή και επανεισαγωγή της διατρητικής στήλης (round trip, round tripping, trip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | könnyed lépés (trip), könnyed (airy, colloquial, ethereal, facile, fluent, free and easy, graceful, jaunty, light, lightsome, off hand, off-handed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scatto intempestivo (opening, spurious opening), scatto (burst, click, dash, fit, flounce, impulse, latch, spirt, sprint, spurt, unit), apertura (aperture, gap, gape, hole, inlet, leak, mouth, opening, openness, orifice, slot, span, spread, vent). (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, Tripper, vaginal trichomoniasis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | トリッ"ング . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 넘어짐 (tumbling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | snapperal (pull, stumble, stumbling, trip, tripping stumbling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ippingtray saltitante (fleet-footed, jumpy, light-legged), rápido (active, clear-sighted, crisp, double-quick, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleet-footed, light-legged, nimble, nippy, prompt, quick, rattling, riffle, speedy, sudden, swift, swift-handed, tantivy, volant, winged), passeio (causeway, causey, crosswalk, footpath, footway, jaunt, mall, out, outing, pavement, perambulation, promenade, ramble, ride, roam, run, saunter, scramble, sidewalk, stroll, tour, trip, walk, walkway, wandering), manobra do trem de hastes (round trip, round tripping, trip), leve (buoyant, fleet-footed, flowing, fluffy, gauzy, gentle, glib, gossamer, light-legged, remote, sleazy, slight, slim, tenuous, weightless), lapso (error, lapse, lapsus, oversight, slip, stumble), excursão (excursion, flight, jaunt, outing, run, sally, sightseeing trip, tour, trip, wander), engano (blunder, bunco, cheat, chouse, circumvention, cozenage, deceit, deception, delusion, error, fault, feint, fraud, gag, gammon, hoax, imposition, invention, inveracity, mare's-nest, miscalculation, miss, mistake, misunderstanding, overreach, sham, slip, take-in), disparo intempestivo (opening, spurious opening), desencadeamento, corte (address, build, chop, cohort, court, courtship, cutting edge, gash, hack, hackery, incision, intersection, kerf, make, nick, pen, scission, score, slash, swinery, tailoring), abertura intempestiva (opening, spurious opening). (various references) расцепление, размыкание (breaking, unswitching), опрокидывание (capsize, tumbling, turnover, upset), быстроногий (fleet of foot, fleet-footed, light footed, light-footed, light-heeled, light-legged, wing-footed). (various references) pocupkavanje, okretan (agile, nimble, rangy, swift-handed), laki ples, laka igra, cupkanje (hopping, scuttle), brz (cursory, expeditious, fast, fleet, high speed, nippy, prompt, quick, rapid, repartee, spanking, speedy, swift, tantivy). (various references) parada (boasting, check, detention, halt, lieu, parade, Parry, pen, pull up, rank, relay, save, stake, stand, standstill, stop, stoping, stoppage, stopping place), maniobra del tren de varillas (round trip, round tripping, trip), disparo intempestivo (opening, spurious opening), desconexión (disconnexion). (various references) tripping, trippande (Pat, patter, pit-a-pat, pitter patter), rundtripp (round trip, round tripping, trip), lätt (easily, easy, facile, floaty, fragile, gentle, gently, hands over fist, in a hurry, light, lightly, mild, readily, shallow, simple, slight, slightly), frånslag (turn-off), falsk utlösning (opening, spurious opening), fällning (deposit, felling, precipitate, sediment, sedimentation, settling). (various references) sendeleyen (groggy, shaking, staggering, tottering, tottery, vacillating, wobbly), röle (relay), kıvrak (active, agile, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, quick, strong, supple), hafif dans, hafif adımlarla yürüyen, hafif adımlarla yürüme, çevik (agile, brisk, dapper, fleet, glib, light footed, limber, lissom, lissome, nimble, nippy, spry, swift, volant). (various references) thoăn thoắt, nhẹ nh ng (airily, gently, glib, lightly, mildly, soft, toilless, trippingly, velvety), nhanh nhẹn (agile, alert, alive, crispy, dapper, spry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tripping": trippingly, trippings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tripping": fieldstripping, outstripping, stripping. (additional references) | |
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"Tripping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: trephing, tripang, tripin, triping, trippen, trippin, trippings, trippling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tripping" (pronounced tri"ping) |
| 6 | t r i" p i ng | outstripping, stripping. |
| 5 | -r i" p i ng | dripping, gripping, ripping. |
| 4 | -i" p i ng | Chipping, clipping, dipping, equipping, flipping, nipping, shipping, sipping, skipping, slipping, tipping, whipping, zipping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, creeping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, draping, drooping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, escaping, flapping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, revamping, romping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, seeping, shaping, shopping, sidestepping, skimping, slapping, sleeping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stumping, swamping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, swooping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, topping, tramping, trapping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-n-p-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: ripping, tipping. | |
-2 letters: piping, riping, tiring. | |
-3 letters: gript, iring, piing, pipit, print. | |
-4 letters: girn, girt, grin, grip, grit, inti, ping, pint, pirn, prig, ring, ting, tipi, trig, trip. | |
-5 letters: gin, gip, git, nip, nit, pig, pin, pip, pit, rig, rin, rip, tin, tip. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-n-p-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: stripping, trippings. | |
+2 letters: trippingly. | |
+3 letters: overtipping, preprinting, wiretapping. | |
+4 letters: appertaining, apportioning, appreciating, apprenticing, giftwrapping, interlapping, livetrapping, outstripping, propitiating, reappointing, transhipping. | |
+5 letters: appropriating, approximating, expropriating, intercropping, participating, precipitating, preportioning, proportioning, transshipping. | |
| 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. | |
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