trip
part of speech
noun, verb (trip, trips, tripped, tripping)
meaning for a pupil
1) A trip is a journey to a place and back, often short: a school trip. tree →
2) To trip is to catch your foot on something and almost fall or fall. tree →
3) To trip someone up is to make them fall, or to make them make a mistake. tree →
4) A round trip is going and coming back. tree →
5) Trip can also mean to walk or dance with quick, light steps. tree →
sense in the lessons
Maths: a journey with distance, cost or time; trips counted and multiplied by distance or cost; «round trip» is twice one way. School: field trip, school trip, permission slip. Safety: tidy toys away so nobody trips over them. Everyday: day trip, business trip, «have a good trip».
examples
- The trip to the zoo is 30 miles. tree →
- The bus makes 4 trips a day. tree →
- Each trip costs 3 dollars. tree →
- A round trip is 2 times the distance one way. tree →
- Our class went on a trip to the museum. tree →
- Mind you don't trip over the cable. tree →
- He tripped on the step and fell. tree →
- Have a good trip! tree →
- They tripped about in the cabbage garden. tree →
note
Countable noun; verb doubles the p: tripped, tripping. Trips are often counted and multiplied by distance or cost. Trap: «round trip» is twice one way.
In the corpora
- Then they choose the cheap fun: a picnic and a library trip instead of the cinema.
- Later Mum explains: Grandpa needs a small operation and they were planning the trip to visit him.
- Laughing kindly with someone who tripped is fine; laughing at them makes their embarrassment worse.
- You remember Mia's tummy ache and Chloe's grandma's birthday, and you "lived" a rainy school trip.
- I ought to stick by Toad till this trip is ended.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «trip» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.