trip

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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noun, verb
+ noun
1 a journey to a place and back again, especially a short one for pleasure or a particular purpose: Did you have a good trip? + We went on a trip to the mountains. + a day trip (= lasting a day) + a boat / coach trip + a business / school / shopping trip + They took a trip down the river. + We had to make several trips to bring all the equipment over.
See also - EGO TRIP, FIELD TRIP, ROUND TRIP
2 (slang) the experience that sb has if they take a powerful drug that affects the mind and makes them imagine things: an acid (= LSD) trip
3 an act of falling or nearly falling down, because you hit your foot against sth
Idioms see GUILT
+ verb (-pp-)
1 [V] [often +adv./prep.] ~ (over / up)
~ (over / on sth) to catch your foot on sth and fall or almost fall: She tripped and fell. + Someone will trip over that cable. + Be careful you don't trip up on the step. + (figurative) I was tripping over my words in my excitement to tell them the news.
2 [VN] (BrE also trip sb up) to catch sb's foot and make them fall or almost fall: As I passed, he stuck out a leg and tried to trip me up. + The referee said Owen was tripped and gave a penalty.
3 [V +adv./prep.] (literary) to walk, run or dance with quick light steps: She said goodbye and tripped off along the road. + (figurative) a melody with a light tripping rhythm
4 [VN] to release a switch, etc. or to operate sth by doing so: to trip a switch + Any intruders will trip the alarm.
5 [V] (informal) to be under the influence of a drug that makes you HALLUCINATE
Idioms see MEMORY LANE, TONGUE n.
Phrasal Verbs: trip up
trip sb<->up to make a mistake; to deliberately make sb do this: Read the questions carefully, because the examiners sometimes try to trip you up.

Thesaurus dictionary

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n.

1 stumble, slip, blunder, false step, misstep, fall:

He sprained his ankle in that trip on the stair.

2 stumble, slip, blunder, false step, misstep, faux pas, error, mistake, indiscretion, lapse, slip of the tongue, lapsus linguae, erratum, oversight; Freudian slip; Slang Brit boob:

If it hadn't been for that one trip, we would have had a perfect score.

3 tour, journey, excursion, outing, expedition, voyage, trek, peregrination, jaunt, junket, drive:

We took a short side-trip to visit Khios.

v.

4 dance, caper, skip, cavort, gambol, frisk, hop, spring:

Joanne came tripping gaily down the Champs lysées.

5 stumble, slip, blunder, misstep, fall (down), tumble, topple, dive, plunge, sprawl, lurch, flounder, stagger, falter:

I tripped on the doorstep and went head over heels.

6 Often, trip up. trap, trick, catch out, unsettle, throw off, disconcert:

She has been trying to trip me up and confess to something I didn't do.

7 journey, travel, voyage, visit, tour, trek, sightsee, cruise; Colloq globe-trot:

They have been tripping all over Europe this summer.

8 detonate, set off, trigger, operate, release, explode, spark off:

When he touched the wire, he tripped the charge.

9 Often, trip out. hallucinate, Slang freak out, turn on:

There's no talking to him when he's tripping out on coke.

Collocation dictionary

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ADJ.

extended, long | brief, little, quick, short | day, overnight, weekend

We went on a day trip to the seaside.

| frequent, occasional, rare, regular

He makes frequent trips to Poland.

| annual, weekly, etc. | forthcoming | fantastic, good, great, nice, pleasant, successful | memorable | abortive, fruitless | successful | return, round

From London to Oxford and back is a round trip of over a hundred miles.

| foreign, overseas | round-the-world, world | European, Japan, etc. | boat, coach, cycle, etc. | business, fishing, pleasure, shopping, sightseeing | school

a school trip to the Science Museum

| field

a geography field trip to study a limestone landscape

| study

VERB + TRIP

be (away) on, go on, make, take

She's away on a business trip. From here visitors can take a boat trip along the coast to Lundy Island.

| have

Did you have a good trip?

| come back from, return from | be back from

He's just back from a trip to New York.

| arrange, organize, plan | book | cancel | extend | cut short

I had to cut short my trip when my wallet was stolen.

| enjoy

Enjoy your trip!

PREP.

~ by

a five-minute trip by taxi

| ~ to

a trip to Tokyo

PHRASES

a trip abroad

My last trip abroad was two years ago.

| the trip home

The trip home took us five hours!

| the trip of a lifetime

They saved for years for their trip of a lifetime to Hawaii.

Concise English dictionary

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tripped|tripping|tripstrɪp
noun
+a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)
+a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs
+an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
+an exciting or stimulating experience
+a catch mechanism that acts as a switch
+a light or nimble tread
+an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
verb
+miss a step and fall or nearly fall
+cause to stumble
+make a trip for pleasure
+put in motion or move to act
+get high, stoned, or drugged

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