different between trip vs besides

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

beside +? -s. See -s (Etymology 3)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /b??sa?dz/, /bi?sa?dz/

Preposition

besides

1. In addition, in addition to.
   • 1661, John Fell, “The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond”, quoted in Ecclesiastical Biography by Christopher Wordsworth, fourth edition, volume IV, London: Francis & John Rivington (1853):

     During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]

   • 1776, Thomas Pennant, A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides, 1772

     It is besides used as a food, either as a sallad^[sic], raw, or boiled as greens.

2. Other than; except for; instead of.

3. (obsolete) Beside.
   • 1561, Geneva Bible, Acts 16:13,^{The Geneva Bible#page/n1075}

     And on the Sabbath day, we went out of the citie, be?ides a riuer, where they were wont to pray : and we ?ate downe, and ?pake vnto the women, which were come together.

   • 1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, London: John Hunne, “The Historie of Englande. Aldestane,” p. 225,^[1]

     After this, was Edwin the Kings brother accu?ed of ?ome con?piracie by him begun again?t the K. whervpõ he was bani?hed the land, and ?ent out in an old rotten ve??ell without rower or Marriner, onely accompanied with one E?quire, ?o that beeing launched foorth from the ?hore, through very di?paire Edwin lept into the Sea, and drowned him?elfe, but the E?quire that was with him recouered his body, and broughte it to land at With?and be?ides Canterbury.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book Two, Canto 1, p. 198,^[2]

     Be?ides them both, vpon the ?oiled gras / The dead cor?e of an armed knight was ?pred, […]

Synonyms

• (in addition): beyond, on top of; see also Thesaurus:in addition to
• (other than): barring, besides, save for; see also Thesaurus:except

Translations

Adverb

besides (not comparable)

1. (conjunctive) Also; in addition.
2. (conjunctive) Used to emphasize an additional point, especially an important or stronger reason; Moreover; furthermore.

3. Otherwise; else.

4. (obsolete) On one side.
   • c. 1611, George Chapman (translator), The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 8, p. 111,^[3]

     Yet Teucer would another shaft, at Hectors life dispose;
     So faine, he such a marke would hit: but still besides it goes;

Translations

See also

• on top of that
• beside