Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 75
Trip (v. t.) (Mach.) To release, let fall, or set free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent; to activate by moving a release mechanism, often unintentionally; as, to trip an alarm.
Trip (n.) A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door. -- Sir W. Scott.
Trip (n.) A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt.
I took a trip to London on the death of the queen. -- Pope.
Trip (n.) A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake.
Imperfect words, with childish trips. -- Milton.
Each seeming trip, and each digressive start. -- Harte.
Trip (n.) A small piece; a morsel; a bit. [Obs.] "A trip of cheese." -- Chaucer.
Trip (n.) A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing.
And watches with a trip his foe to foil. -- Dryden.
It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground. -- South.
Trip (n.) (Naut.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
Trip (n.) A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc. [Prov. Eng. & Scott.].
Trip (n.) A troop of men; a host. [Obs.] -- Robert of Brunne.
Trip (n.) (Zool.) A flock of widgeons.
Trip (n.) A journey for some purpose (usually including the return); "he took a trip to the shopping center".
Trip (n.) A hallucinatory experience induced by drugs; "an acid trip".
Trip (n.) An accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall; "he blamed his slip on the ice"; "the jolt caused many slips and a few spills" [syn: slip, trip].
Trip (n.) An exciting or stimulating experience [syn: trip, head trip].
Trip (n.) A catch mechanism that acts as a switch; "the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water" [syn: tripper, trip].
Trip (n.) A light or nimble tread; "he heard the trip of women's feet overhead".
Trip (n.) 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" [syn: trip, trip-up, stumble, misstep].
Trip (v.) Miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root" [syn: stumble, trip].
Trip (v.) Cause to stumble; "The questions on the test tripped him up" [syn: trip, trip up].
Trip (v.) Make a trip for pleasure [syn: travel, trip, jaunt].
Trip (v.) Put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits" [syn: trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off].
Trip (v.) Get high, stoned, or drugged; "He trips every weekend" [syn: trip, trip out, turn on, get off].
TRIP, () Telephony Routing over IP (IP, RFC 3219)
Tripalmitate (n.) (Chem.) A palmitate derived from three molecules of palmitic acid.
Compare: Palmitin
Palmitin (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A solid crystallizable fat, found abundantly in animals and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called tripalmitin, or glyceryl tripalmitate.
Tripalmitin (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) See Palmitin.
Tripalmitin (n.) A triglyceride of palmitic acid [syn: tripalmitin, glycerol tripalmitate].
Trepang (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in China; -- called also b[^e]che de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug. [Written also tripang.]
Note: The edible trepangs are mostly large species of Holothuria, especially Holothuria edulis. They are taken in vast quantities in the East Indies, where they are dried and smoked, and then shipped to China. They are used as an ingredient in certain kinds of soup.
Tripang (n.) (Zool.) See Trepang.
Triparted (a.) (Her.) Parted into three piece; having three parts or pieces; -- said of the field or of a bearing; as, a cross triparted.
Triparted (a.) (Bot.) Divided nearly to the base into three segments or lobes.
Tripartible (a.) Divisible into three parts.
Tripartient (a.) (Arith.) Dividing into three parts; -- said of a number which exactly divides another into three parts.
Tripartite (a.) Divided into three parts; triparted; as, a tripartite leaf.
Tripartite (a.) Having three corresponding parts or copies; as, to make indentures tripartite. -- A. Smith.
Tripartite (a.) Made between three parties; as, a tripartite treaty.
Tripartite (a.) Involving three parties or elements; "a tripartite treaty"; "a tripartite division"; "a three-way playoff" [syn: tripartite, three-party, three-way].
Tripartite. Consisting of three parts, as a deed tripartite, between A of the first part, B of the second part, and C of the third part.
Tripartitely (adv.) In a tripartite manner.
Tripartition (n.) A division by threes, or into three parts; the taking of a third part of any number or quantity.
Tripaschal (a.) Including three passovers.
Tripe (n.) The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.
How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled ? -- Shak.
Tripe (n.) The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural. -- Howell.
Tripe (n.) Lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food.
Tripe (n.) Nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop].
Tripedal (a.) Having three feet.
Tripe-de-roche (n.) [F.] (Bot.) Same as Rock tripe, under Rock.
Tripel (n.) (Min.) Same as Tripoli.
-men (n. pl. ) of Tripeman
Tripeman (n.) A man who prepares or sells tripe.
Tripennate (a.) (Bot.) Same as Tripinnate.
Tripersonal (a.) Consisting of three persons. -- Milton.
Tripersonalist (n.) A Trinitarian.
Tripersonality (n.) The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.
Tripery (n.) A place where tripe is prepared or sold. -- London Quart. Rev.
Tripestone (n.) (Min.) A variety of anhydrite composed of contorted plates fancied to resemble pieces of tripe.
Tripetaloid (a.) (Bot.) Having the form or appearance of three petals; appearing as if furnished with three petals.
Tripetalous (a.) (Bot.) Having three petals, or flower leaves; three-petaled.
Trip hammer () A tilt hammer.
Triphane (n.) (Min.) Spodumene.
Triphthong (n.) (Orthoepy) A combination of three vowel sounds in a single syllable, forming a simple or compound sound; also, a union of three vowel characters, representing together a single sound; a trigraph; as, eye, -ieu in adieu, -eau in beau, are examples of triphthongs.
Triphthongal (a.) Of or pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of three vowel sounds pronounced together in a single syllable.
Triphyline (n.) Triphylite.
Triphylite (n.) (Min.) A mineral of a grayish-green or bluish color, consisting of the phosphates of iron, manganese, and lithia.
Note: A salmon-colored or clove-brown variety containing but little iron is known as lithiophilite.
Triphyllous (a.) (Bot.) Having three leaves; three-leaved.
Tripinnate (a.) (Bot.) Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rhachis.
Tripinnate (a.) (Of a leaf shape) Thrice pinnate [syn: tripinnate, tripinnated].
Tripinnatifid (a.) (Bot.) Thrice pinnately cleft; -- said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid.
Triplasian (a.) Three-fold; triple; treble. [Obs.] -- Cudworth.
Triple (a.) Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.
By thy triple shape as thou art seen. -- Dryden.
Triple (a.) Three times repeated; treble. See Treble.
Triple (a.) One of three; third. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Triple crown, The crown, or tiara, of the pope. See Tiara, 2.
Triple-expansion steam engine, A compound steam engine in which the same steam performs work in three cylinders successively.
Triple measure (Mus.), A measure of tree beats of which first only is accented.
Triple ratio (Math.), A ratio which is equal to 3.
Triple salt (Chem.), A salt containing three distinct basic atoms as radicals; thus, microcosmic salt is a triple salt.
Triple star (Astron.), A system of three stars in close proximity.
Triple time (Mus.), That time in which each measure is divided into three equal parts.
Triple valve, In an automatic air brake for railroad cars, the valve under each car, by means of which the brake is controlled by a change of pressure in the air pipe leading from the locomotive.
Tripled (imp. & p. p.) of Triple.
Tripling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Triple.
Triple (v. i.) To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee.
Triple (a.) Having three units or components or elements; "a ternary operation"; "a treble row of red beads"; "overcrowding made triple sessions necessary"; "triple time has three beats per measure"; "triplex windows" [syn: ternary, treble, triple, triplex].
Triple (a.) Three times as great or many; "a claim for treble (or triple) damages"; "a threefold increase" [syn: treble, threefold, three-fold, triple].
Triple (n.) A base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base [syn: triple, three-base hit, three-bagger].
Triple (n.) A set of three similar things considered as a unit [syn: trio, triad, triplet, triple].
Triple (n.) A quantity that is three times as great as another.
Triple (v.) Increase threefold; "Triple your income!" [syn: triple, treble].
Triple (v.) Hit a three-base hit.
Triple-crowned (a.) Having three crowns; wearing the triple crown, as the pope.
Tripledemic (n.) 三重疫情 An epidemic of three separate diseases occurring at the same time. also tridemic
Triple-headed (a.) Having three heads; three-headed; as, the triple-headed dog Cerberus.
Triplet (n.) A collection or combination of three of a kind; three united.
Triplet (n.) (Poetry) Three verses rhyming together.
Triplet (n.) (Mus.) A group of three notes sung or played in the tree of two.
Triplet (n.) pl. Three children or offspring born at one birth.
Triplet (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one [syn: three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce, leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary, ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce-ace].
Triplet (n.) One of three offspring born at the same time from the same Pregnancy.
Triplet (n.) A set of three similar things considered as a unit [syn: trio, triad, triplet, triple].
Triple-tail (n.) (Zool.) An edible fish ({Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common on the southern and middle coasts of the United States. When living it is silvery gray, and becomes brown or blackish when dead. Its dorsal and anal fins are long, and extend back on each side of the tail. It has large silvery scales which are used in the manufacture of fancy work. Called also, locally, black perch, grouper, and flasher.
Triplicate (a.) 一式三份的；第三份的 Made thrice as much; threefold; tripled.
Triplicate ratio (Math.), The ratio of the cubes of two quantities; thus, the triplicate ratio of a to b is a^{3: b^{3.
Triplicate (n.) A third thing corresponding to two others of the same kind.
Triplicate (n.) 三個相似物之一；一式三份（中的一份） One of three copies; any of three things that correspond to one another exactly.
Triplicate (v. t.) 使成三倍；把……作成一式三份 Reproduce threefold; "triplicate the letter for the committee".
Triplicate-ternate (a.) (Bot.) Triternate.
Triplication (n.) The act of tripling, or making threefold, or adding three together. -- Glanvill.
Triplication (n.) (Civil Law) Same as Surrejoinder.
Triplicity (a.) The quality or state of being triple, or threefold; trebleness.
In their trinal triplicities on high. -- Spenser.
Triplicity (n.) (Astrology) One of four groups of the zodiac where each group consists of three signs separated from each other by 120 degrees [syn: triplicity, trigon].
Triplicity (n.) The property of being triple.
Triplicostate (a.) (Bot.) Three-ribbed.
Triplite (n.) (Min.) A mineral of a dark brown color, generally with a fibrous, massive structure. It is a fluophosphate of iron and manganese.
Triploblastic (a.) (Biol.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, that condition of the ovum in which there are three primary germinal layers, or in which the blastoderm splits into three layers.
Triploidite (n.) (Min.) A manganese phosphate near triplite, but containing hydroxyl instead of fluorine.
Triply (adv.) In a triple manner.
Tripmadam (n.) (Bot.) Same as Prickmadam.
Tripod (n.) Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.
Note: On such, a stool, in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, the Pythian priestess sat while giving responses to those consulting the Delphic oracle.
Tripod (n.) A three-legged frame or stand, usually jointed at top, for supporting a theodolite, compass, telescope, camera, or other instrument.
Tripod of life, or Vital tripod (Physiol.), The three organs, the heart, lungs, and brain; -- so called because their united action is necessary to the maintenance of life.
Tripod (n.) A three-legged rack used for support.
Tripodian (n.) (Mus.) An ancient stringed instrument; -- so called because, in form, it resembled the Delphic tripod.
Tripody (n.) (Pros.) Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.
Tripoli (n.) (Min.) 矽藻土 An earthy substance originally brought from Tripoli, used in polishing stones and metals. It consists almost wholly of the siliceous shells of diatoms.
Tripoli (n.) A weathered and decomposed siliceous limestone; in powdered form it is used in polishing [syn: {rottenstone}, {tripoli}].
Tripoli (n.) The capital and chief port and largest city of Libya; in northwestern Libya on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by the Phoenicians in the 7th century BC [syn: {Tripoli}, {Tarabulus Al-Gharb}, {capital of Libya}].
Tripoli (n.) A port city and commercial center in northwestern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea [syn: {Tarabulus}, {Tripoli}, {Tarabulus Ash-Sham}, {Trablous}].
Tripoli, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 1310
Housing Units (2000): 561
Land area (2000): 1.401547 sq. miles (3.629990 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.401547 sq. miles (3.629990 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78915
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.805736 N, 92.257580 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50676
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tripoli, IA
Tripoli
Tripoli (n.) 的黎波里（阿拉伯語：طرابلس），位於北緯32°54'8"、東經13°11'9"，2011年人口180萬人，位處利比亞西北部沙漠的邊緣及地中海沿岸，是該國首都，也是該國最大城市、主要港口、最大商業和製造中心。Tripoli (Arabic: طرابلس, Ṭarābulus; Berber: Ṭrables) is the capital city and the largest city of Libya. Tripoli, with its metropolitan area, has a population of about 1.1 million people. [1] The city is located in the northwestern part of Libya on the edge of the desert, on a point of rocky land projecting into the Mediterranean and forming a bay. Tripoli includes the Port of Tripoli and the country's largest commercial and manufacturing centre. It is also the site of the University of Tripoli. The vast Bab al-Azizia barracks, which includes the former family estate of Muammar Gaddafi, is also located in the city. Colonel Gaddafi largely ruled the country from his residence in this barracks.
Tripoli was founded in the 7th century BC by the Phoenicians, who named it Oea. [2] Due to the city's long history, there are many sites of archaeological significance in Tripoli. "Tripoli" may also refer to the shabiyah (top-level administrative division in the current Libyan system), the Tripoli District.
Tripoli is also known as Tripoli-of-the-West (Arabic: طرابلس الغرب Ṭarābulus al-Gharb), to distinguish it from its Phoenician sister city Tripoli, Lebanon known in Arabic as Ṭarābulus al-Sham (طرابلس الشام) meaning "Levantine Tripoli". It is affectionately called The Mermaid of the Mediterranean (Arabic: عروسة البحر ʼarūsat el-baḥr; lit: "bride of the sea"), describing its turquoise waters and its whitewashed buildings. Tripoli English: /ˈtrɪpəli/ [3] is a Greek name that means "Three Cities", introduced in Western European languages through the Italian Tripoli. In Arabic: طرابلس it is called Ṭarābulus ( pronunciation (help·info), Libyan Arabic: Ṭrābləs pronunciation (help·info), Berber: Ṭrables, from Ancient Greek: Τρίπολις Trípolis). Compare Sanskrit, "tri" meaning the number 3, and "pura" meaning a fortress, castle, city or town. Hence, in Sanskrit "Tripura" also means "Three Cities". [4]
Tripoline (a.) Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants; Tripolitan.
Tripoline (a.) Of or pertaining to tripoli, the mineral.
Tripolitan (a.) Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants; Tripoline.
Tripolitan (n.) A native or inhabitant of Tripoli.
Triposes (n. pl. ) of Tripos.
Tripos (n.) A tripod. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Tripos (n.) A university examination of questionists, for honors; also, a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper. [Cambridge University, Eng.]
Classical tripos examination, the final university examination for classical honors, optional to all who have taken the mathematical honors. -- C. A. Bristed.
Tripos paper, A printed list of the successful candidates for mathematical honors, accompanied by a piece in Latin verse. There are two of these, designed to commemorate the two tripos days. The first contains the names of the wranglers and senior optimes, and the second the names of the junior optimes. The word tripos is supposed to refer to the three-legged stool formerly used at the examinations for these honors, though some derive it from the three brackets formerly printed on the back of the paper. -- C. A. Bristed.
Tripos (n.) Final honors degree examinations at Cambridge University
Trippant (a.) (Her.) See Tripping, a., 2.
Tripper (n.) One who trips or supplants; also, one who walks or trips nimbly; a dancer.
Tripper (n.) An excursionist.
Trippet (n.) (Mach.) A cam, wiper, or projecting piece which strikes another piece repeatedly.
Tripping (a.) Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.
Tripping (a.) (Her.) Having the right forefoot lifted, the others remaining on the ground, as if he were trotting; trippant; -- said of an animal, as a hart, buck, and the like, used as a bearing.
Tripping (n.) Act of one who, or that which, trips.
Tripping (n.) A light dance.
Other trippings to be trod of lighter toes. -- Milton.
Tripping (n.) (Naut.) The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.
Tripping line (Naut.), A small rope attached to the topgallant or royal yard, used to trip the yard, and in lowering it to the deck; also, a line used in letting go the anchor. -- Luce.
Tripping (a.) Characterized by a buoyant rhythm; "an easy lilting stride"; "the flute broke into a light lilting air"; "a swinging pace"; "a graceful swingy walk"; "a tripping singing measure" [syn: lilting, swinging, swingy,
tripping].
Tripping (a.) Moving easily and quickly; nimble; "the dancer was light and graceful"; "a lightsome buoyant step"; "walked with a light tripping step" [syn: light, lightsome, tripping].
Trippingly (adv.) In a tripping manner; with a light, nimble, quick step; with agility; nimbly.
Sing, and dance it trippingly. -- Shak.
Speak the speech . . . trippingly on the tongue. -- Shak.
Trippingly (adv.) Moving with quick light steps; "she walked lightsomely down the long staircase" [syn: lightsomely, trippingly].
Tripsis (n.) (Med.) Trituration. [R.]
Tripsis (n.) (Med.) Shampoo. [R.]
Triptote (n.) (Gram.) A noun having three cases only.
Triptych (n.) Anything in three parts or leaves. Specifically:
Triptych (n.) A writing tablet in three parts, two of which fold over on the middle part.