trip trip-up stumble misstep | an unintentional but embarrassing blunder, he recited the whole poem without a single trip, he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later, confusion caused his unfortunate misstep |
trip | a light or nimble tread, he heard the trip of women's feet overhead |
trip | a journey for some purpose (usually including the return), he took a trip to the shopping center |
round trip | a trip to some place and back again |
scouting trip | an expedition undertaken to gain information |
excursion jaunt outing junket pleasure trip expedition sashay | a journey taken for pleasure, many summer excursions to the shore, it was merely a pleasure trip, after cautious sashays into the field |
field trip | a group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination |
ocean trip voyage | an act of traveling by water |
self-aggrandizement self-aggrandisement ego trip | an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance |
power trip | (slang) a self-aggrandizing action undertaken simply for the pleasure of exercising control over other people |
self-gratification head trip | the act of satisfying your own desires and giving yourself pleasure |
circular plane compass plane | a plane with a flexible face that can plane concave or convex surfaces |
circular saw buzz saw | a power saw that has a steel disk with cutting teeth on the periphery, rotates on a spindle |
portable circular saw portable saw | a circular saw that is portable and is operated with a hand grip |
trip line | a light rope used in lumbering to free a dog hook from a log at a distance |
tripper trip | a catch mechanism that acts as a switch, the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water |
trip wire | a wire stretched close to the ground that activates something (a trap or camera or weapon) when tripped over |
wastepaper basket waste-paper basket wastebasket waste basket circular file | a container with an open top, for discarded paper and other rubbish |
round-trip ticket return ticket | a ticket to a place and back (usually over the same route) |
circular handbill bill broadside broadsheet flier flyer throwaway | an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution, he mailed the circular to all subscribers |
trip head trip | an exciting or stimulating experience |
slip trip | an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall, he blamed his slip on the ice, the jolt caused many slips and a few spills |
guilt guilty conscience guilt feelings guilt trip | remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense |
trip wire | a small military force that serves as a first line of defense, if they become engaged in hostilities it will trigger the intervention of stronger military forces |
circular measure | measurement of angles in radians |
trigonometric function circular function | function of an angle expressed as a ratio of the length of the sides of right-angled triangle containing the angle |
trip | a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs, an acid trip |
round-trip light time RTLT | the elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point |
trip up catch | detect a blunder or misstep, The reporter tripped up the senator |
stumble slip up trip up | make an error, She slipped up and revealed the name |
trip trip out turn on get off | get high, stoned, or drugged, He trips every weekend |
trip actuate trigger activate set off spark off spark trigger off touch off | put in motion or move to act, trigger a reaction, actuate the circuits |
dance trip the light fantastic trip the light fantastic toe | move in a pattern, usually to musical accompaniment, do or perform a dance, My husband and I like to dance at home to the radio |
travel trip jaunt | make a trip for pleasure |
stumble trip | miss a step and fall or nearly fall, She stumbled over the tree root |
trip trip up | cause to stumble, The questions on the test tripped him up |
circular rotary orbitual | describing a circle, moving in a circle, the circular motion of the wheel |
round circular | having a circular shape |
circular-knit | knitted in tubular form, circular-knit sweaters without seams |