trip(4) (iou) and Orthopedics (health)

trip(4) (iou)

trip verb. Infl. -pp-. LME.

I.
a. verb intrans. & trans. (with it). Move, Dance, or run with quick light steps; skip, caper, Dance nimbly; fig. (of words, a rhythm, etc.) flow lightly and gracefully. LME.
National Observer (US) Watching a bevy of models trip gracefully down the runway.
b. verb intrans. & trans. Angling. Touch lightly or brush (the bottom) with the bait. L19.
verb trans.
a. Cause to move or Dance quickly and lightly. rare. L16.
b. Perform (a Dance) with a light lively step. rare. E17.
trip the light fantastic: see FANTASTIC adjective 5b.
c. Tread (ground etc.) quickly and lightly, Dance nimbly on. M18.
a. verb intrans. & trans. (with it). Make a trip or short excursion. (Foll. by to a place.) M17.
Field The managing director's wife..likes the idea of tripping up to London for her shopping.
b. verb intrans. spec. Travel through rough country by dog-sledge or canoe, esp. on a trading expedition. Canad. E19.
verb intrans. Experience hallucinations induced by a drug, esp. LSD; undergo a psychedelic trip. Also foll. by out. colloq. M20.
H. Ferguson The bunch with whom I used to trip out and smoke pot.
II.
verb trans. Cause to stumble or fall by suddenly catching or entangling the foot against an object etc. Freq. foll. by up. LME.
Idler Magazine He thrust out his ski staff and tripped up his companion. M. Hocking The floor was stone-flagged with rugs cast about here and there to trip the unwary.
verb intrans. Strike the foot against something so as to stumble or fall; (of the tongue or speaker) stumble in articulation, falter in speaking. Freq. foll. by on or over an obstacle, up. LME.
trip over oneself colloq. = fall over oneself (b) s.v. FALL verb.
J. McGahern Tie your shoes or you'll trip. M. Stott I tripped over an uneven paving stone. D. Shields They trip over this t, fumble with that f.
b. Watchmaking. Of an escape wheel: release itself from the pallet. M19.
a. verb intrans. Make a mistake or blunder; fall into an inconsistency or error. E16.
Swift Many endeavours to catch me tripping in some part of my story.
b. verb trans. Cause to make a mistake or blunder; detect in an inconsistency or error. M16.
III.
Nautical.
a. verb intrans. Of an anchor: become released and raised from the bottom by means of a cable etc. E17.
b. verb trans. Release and raise (an anchor) from the bottom thus. M18.
a. verb trans. Tilt (a thing); spec. in Nautical, turn (a yard etc.) from a horizontal to a vertical position for lowering. M19.
b. verb intrans. Tilt, tip up; spec. in Nautical, (of a ship's floor) be strained or twisted out of the horizontal. M19.
a. verb trans. Release (a catch, lever, etc.) by contact with a projection; start (a mechanism) in this way. Also more widely, cause to start operating or responding by some simple change in external state or condition; spec. in Electronics, cause (a bistable device) to change from one stable state to the Other; (foll. by out) disconnect electrically, esp. as an automatic action. L19.
P. Theroux Any movement it detected caused a blink that tripped a signal and activated a beam.
b. verb intrans. Of a mechanism etc.: undergo a sudden change of state, begin or (foll. by out) cease to operate. M20.
verb trans. Botany. Operate the pollination mechanism of (certain flowers) by disturbing the keel so that the anthers and style spring out of it. E20.

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