different between trip vs stir

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /st??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /st?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian (“to be in motion, move, agitate, stir, disturb, trouble”), from Proto-Germanic *sturiz (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), related to Proto-Germanic *staurijan? (“to destroy, disturb”). Cognate with Old Norse styrr (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), German stören (“to disturb”), Dutch storen (“to disturb”).

Verb

stir (third-person singular simple present stirs, present participle stirring, simple past and past participle stirred)

1. (transitive) To incite to action

   Synonyms: arouse, instigate, prompt, excite; see also Thesaurus:incite
2. (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, a liquid of suchlike, by passing something through it

   Synonym: agitate
3. (transitive) To agitate the content of (a container), by passing something through it.

4. (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
5. (transitive, dated) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
6. (intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.
7. (intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
8. (intransitive) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
9. (intransitive, poetic) To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.

   Synonyms: arise, get up, rouse; see also Thesaurus:wake

   • “Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins,” remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: “Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!”

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stir.

Usage notes

• In all transitive senses except the dated one (“to change the place of in any manner”), stir is often followed by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to stir up sedition.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

stir (countable and uncountable, plural stirs)

1. The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)

2. agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
   • 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem).

     Why all these words, this clamour, and this stir?

   • .

     Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stir.
3. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
   • 1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued

     Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stir.
4. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.

Derived terms

• cause a stir
• stirless
• upstir

Translations

Etymology 2

From Romani stariben (“prison”), nominalisation of (a)star (“seize”), causative of ast (“remain”), probably from Sanskrit ???????? (?ti??hati, “stand or remain by”), from ??????? (ti??hati, “stand”).

Noun

stir (countable and uncountable, plural stirs)

1. (slang) Jail; prison.
   • 1928, Jack Callahan, Man's Grim Justice: My Life Outside the Law (page 42)

     Sing Sing was a tough joint in those days, one of the five worst stirs in the United States.

   • The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.

Derived terms

• stir-crazy

Anagrams

• ISTR, RTIs, Rist, TRIS, TRIs, Tris, rits, sirt, tris, tris-

Danish

Verb

stir

1. imperative of stirre