different between trip vs scramble

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English trippen (“tread or step lightly and nimbly, skip, dance”), perhaps from Old French triper (“to hop or dance around, strike with the feet”), from a Frankish source; or alternatively from Middle Dutch trippen (“to skip, trip, hop, stamp, trample”) (> Modern Dutch trippelen (“to toddle, patter, trip”)). Akin to Middle Low German trippen ( > Danish trippe (“to trip”), Swedish trippa (“to mince, trip”)), West Frisian tripje (“to toddle, trip”), German trippeln (“to scurry”), Old English treppan (“to trample, tread”). Related also to trap, tramp.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?p, IPA^(key): /t??p/, [t??????p]
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

trip (plural trips)

1. A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
   • 1918, Ralph Henry Barbour, Lost Island

     I sold my horse and took a trip to Ceylon and back on an Orient boat as a passenger,
2. A stumble or misstep.

3. (figuratively) An error; a failure; a mistake.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:error

   • 1767, Walter Harte, The amaranth; or, Religious poems

     Each seeming trip, and each digressive start.

5. (colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
6. (by extension) Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.

7. A faux pas, a social error.
8. (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
9. (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.

10. A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
11. (obsolete) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:modicum
13. The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
    • 1661 December 10, Robert South, False Foundations Removed […]

      It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
14. (nautical) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• round-trip
• trippy
• trip working

Related terms

• trip down memory lane
• trip hop
• trip to the woodshed

Translations

Verb

trip (third-person singular simple present trips, present participle tripping, simple past and past participle tripped)

1. (intransitive) to fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot

   Be careful not to trip on the tree roots.

2. (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") to cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them

   A pedestrian was able to trip the burglar as he was running away.

   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5

     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.

3. (intransitive) to be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
   • , Book III

     till his tongue trips

   • , "Discourse upon 2 Thessalonians ii.II"

     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.

4. (transitive, obsolete) to detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict
5. (transitive) to activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch

   When we get into the factory, trip the lights.

6. (intransitive) to be activated, as by a signal or an event
7. (intransitive) to experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs
   • 1970, Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward, Ozzy Osbourne, "Fairies Wear Boots", Black Sabbath, Paranoid.

   After taking the LSD, I started tripping about fairies and colors.

8. (intransitive) to journey, to make a trip

   Last summer we tripped to the coast.

9. (intransitive, dated) to move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip
   • She bounded by, and tripped so light / They had not time to take a steady sight.

10. (nautical) to raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free
11. (nautical) to pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it
12. (slang, African-American Vernacular, most commonly used in the form tripping) to become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

trip (not comparable)

1. (poker slang) of or relating to trips

Etymology 2

From Middle English tryppe, from Old French trippe.

Noun

trip (plural trips)

1. (obsolete, Britain, Scotland, dialect) a herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
2. (obsolete) a troop of men; a host
3. a flock of wigeons

Anagrams

• ript

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

trip f or m (plural trips, diminutive tripje n)

1. a trip, a short excursion, a vacation, travelling
2. hallucination, tripping

Derived terms

• pleziertrip
• zakentrip

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman trippe (“dance”).

Alternative forms

• trippe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?trip(?)/

Noun

trip (plural trippus)

1. An action that leads to a trip, fall or a bump; that which causes a misstep.
2. (rare) A motion in a dance.
3. (rare, Late Middle English) A voyage; an excursion.

Descendants

• English: trip
• Scots: trip

References

• “trip(pe, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-08.

Etymology 2

Noun

trip

1. Alternative form of tryppe

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English trip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [trip]

Noun

trip n (plural tripuri)

1. (slang) trip (hallucination caused by drugs)

Inflection

Spanish

Noun

trip m (plural trips)

1. trip (hallucination)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English trip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?ip/, [t??p]

Noun

trip

1. (drug slang) trip
2. (slang) something or someone liked
   • 1989, National Mid-week

     May asawa at anak ang lalaki, pero trip niya ang mamboso at mambastos sa telcpono. Ginagamit ng lalaki ang ... ang mensahe ng pelikula. Ang problema ay nakaka-depress dahil mahirap labanan nang ganoon ang lalaking sira ang ulo.

     The man has a wife and a son, but he likes to harass and flirt with women on the telephone. The man uses the message of the movie. The problem is depressing because it's difficult to fight such a stupid man.

   • 1998, Honorio Bartolome De Dios, Sa Labas Ng Parlor, University of Philippines Press (?ISBN)

     Siguro nga napapayag mo siya, pero, nilasing mo 'yung tao, e. Hindi ko siya nilasing. Pareho kaming lasing n'ung gabing 'yun. Arnold, kilala ko ang kumpare ko. Matagal na kaming magkasama niyan. Ang trip talaga niya 'pag lasing, sex.

     You possible enticed her, but, you made the person drunk, don't you? I didn't made her drunk. We're both drunk that night. Arnold, I know my buddies. We've been together for long. What she likes when drunk is to have sex.

   • 2008, Khavn De La Cruz, Khavn, Ultraviolins, UP Press (?ISBN), page 182:

     Wala, trip ko lang, wala lang akong magawa. May reklamo ka? Ako wala. Wala akong pakialam sa yo at sa kung ano mang iniisip mo. Bakit sa SM? Kase. Kase pareho ng initials ko. Yun lang.

     Nothing, just my idea, ['coz] I have nothing to do. Any problems? Nothing. I don't mind you and anything you think. Why in SM? Coz. Coz it's the same initials as mine. Just that.

Synonyms

• (something/someone liked): kursonada

Derived terms

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Compare earlier dialectal scramb (“pull with hands”) and scrabble (“to scrape or scratch quickly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk?æmbl?/
• Rhymes: -æmb?l

Verb

scramble (third-person singular simple present scrambles, present participle scrambling, simple past and past participle scrambled)

1. (intransitive) To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 3

     When I saw the coffin I knew that I was respited, for, as I judged, there was space between it and the wall behind enough to contain my little carcass; and in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.

2. (intransitive) To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
3. (transitive, of food ingredients, usually including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.

   I scrambled some eggs with spinach and cheese.

4. (transitive) To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
5. (transitive, military) To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.
6. (intransitive, military) To be quickly deployed in this manner.
   • 1969, Burke Davis, Get Yamamoto (page 115)

     As the planes scrambled, four of his veterans went up: Tom Lanphier, Rex Barber, Joe Moore and Jim McLanahan. They had waited with other Lightnings at 30,000 feet and dived on a formation of eleven Zeroes far below, working in pairs.

7. (intransitive, sports) To partake in motocross.
8. (intransitive) To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
9. (transitive) To gather or collect by scrambling.
10. (transitive) To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.
11. (transitive) To throw something down for others to compete for in this manner.
    • 1952, Walkabout (volume 18, page 40)

      […] Father Boniface standing on the verandah of the Monastery on a Sunday afternoon “scrambling” lollies to the kids […]

Derived terms

• scrambled eggs

Translations

Noun

scramble (plural scrambles)

1. A rush or hurry, especially making use of the limbs against a surface.

2. (military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
   • 1984, Steve Harris, "Aces High", Iron Maiden, Powerslave.

3. A motocross race.
4. Any frantic period of competitive activity.
5. (gridiron football) An impromptu maneuver or run by a quarterback, attempting to gain yardage or avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage.

Antonyms

• sortie

Derived terms

• pedestrian scramble
• scramble band
• tofu scramble

Translations

Interjection

scramble

1. (Britain) Shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item, causing them to rush for it.

Anagrams

• cambrels, clambers, crambles, scambler