What's the difference between grip and trip?

Grip


Definition:

  • (n.) The griffin.
  • (n.) A small ditch or furrow.
  • (v. t.) To trench; to drain.
  • (v. t.) An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.
  • (v. t.) A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip.
  • (v. t.) That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as, the grip of a sword.
  • (v. t.) A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
  • (v. t.) To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (2) It’s as though the nation is in the grip of an hysteria that would make Joseph McCarthy proud.
  • (3) The single best predictor of EI was BW (r2 = 0.47, p = 0.0001), and further small but significant contributions were made by BMC (r2 = 0.53, p = 0.0001) and grip strength (r2 = 0.55, p = 0.0001).
  • (4) However, it had no significant effect on grip strength, digital contractures, respiratory function or visceral involvement.
  • (5) Indian women are aware of our tenuous grip on our rights.
  • (6) The recovery of power grip and finger grip strength is complete in most patients by two months.
  • (7) Results indicate substantial postoperative improvement in tip prehension and grasp, while performance remained essentially unchanged for lateral prehension, pinch force, and power grip.
  • (8) Mean grip strength and grip strength per kilogram weight are presented for age 59, ages 60-64 and 65-69.
  • (9) The measurement is used to control a sensory feedback device applied to the surface of the skin within the socket of the prosthesis informing the wearer of the strength of grip exerted.
  • (10) Plasma catecholamine levels and the haemodynamic response to the hand-grip test have therefore been evaluated in a group of young athletes, compared with a group of non-trained youths.
  • (11) The Guardian's Xan Brooks described Fruitvale Station as a "quietly gripping debut feature" in which "one has the sense of a man being slowly, surely written back into being" after the film's Cannes screening in May.
  • (12) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
  • (13) Heart rate elevation observed after hand grip maneuver did not change.
  • (14) That's why the policies that are desperately needed for the majority to break the grip of a failed economic model would also help make regulated migration work for all: stronger trade unions, a higher minimum wage, a shift from state-subsidised low pay to a living wage, a crash housing investment programme, a halt to cuts in public services, and an end to the outsourced race to the bottom in employment conditions.
  • (15) Once I’d checked she was OK I said, ‘Stop crying now.’ ” So it’s about managing emotions: ‘I’m going to need you to get a grip.’” “If you’ve got interesting points to make about the devaluing of serious words like bullying and depression, why make them in a way that sounds like you’re ridiculing people who are suffering?” I ask.
  • (16) "Zidane, Zidane, Zidane... France was in the grip of 'zizoumania'," Marcel Desailly wrote in his autobiography, reflecting on the triumph on home soil eight years ago, when giant images of the No 10 covered the sides of floodlit office blocks.
  • (17) The Holland manager had decided to retain the 5-3-2 system that worked so effectively against Spain but he reverted to 4-3-3 at the interval after losing Martins Indi and accepting that something had to change to enable his players to get a grip on a game that Australia were controlling in the first half.
  • (18) Loss of the righting response was not associated with any gross reduction in skeletal muscle tone (inclined screen and wire grip tests) and it was proposed that the animals were not anaesthetized but instead could be placed on their backs because flurazepam had enhanced the cataleptic effect of THC.
  • (19) The blood flow through the forearm was measured 2 sec after single, brief isometric hand-grip contractions.
  • (20) Analysis of the rate of functional recovery as measured by total active motion, gross grip strength, and pinch grip strength showed no significant difference between the two groups.

Trip


Definition:

  • (n. i.) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5.
  • (n. i.) To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe.
  • (n. i.) To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble.
  • (n. i.) Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail.
  • (v. t.) To cause to stumble, or take a false step; to cause to lose the footing, by striking the feet from under; to cause to fall; to throw off the balance; to supplant; -- often followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail.
  • (v. t.) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
  • (v. t.) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
  • (v. t.) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
  • (v. t.) To release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent.
  • (n.) A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
  • (n.) A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt.
  • (n.) A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake.
  • (n.) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
  • (n.) A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing.
  • (n.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
  • (n.) A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc.
  • (n.) A troop of men; a host.
  • (n.) A flock of widgeons.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
  • (2) He’s been so consistent this season.” Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.
  • (3) Grisham said she and other aides had not been aware of the trip and “appreciate everyone’s understanding”.
  • (4) Not just this trip, there's the constant, negative criticism over the years chipping away.
  • (5) But he won’t call.” Allardyce is also cynical about an offer from Swansea to compensate around 300 Sunderland fans who had booked trips to Wales before the date change.
  • (6) Indeed, the geographical nature of the division also keeps a check on the club's carbon footprint – Dartford rarely have to travel far outside the M25, with the trips to Bognor Regis and Margate about as distant as they get.
  • (7) Last week the prosecution dropped a series of allegations that Gail Sheridan, also 46, had lied on her husband's behalf by providing a series of false alibis to cover up his affairs and trips to Cupids.
  • (8) On Saturday I made my second trip to the campsite in Lower Stumble – my first journey was on 28 July.
  • (9) "Over the 70-odd days I was there last time [for the solo trip], I would only think there was less than half a day when all things were good."
  • (10) The trip raised millions for Comic Relief but prompted some uncharitable headlines after it emerged in July that Parfitt had billed the taxpayer £541.83 for "specialist clothing" – and a further £26.20 for the cost of picking it up in a cab.
  • (11) The dismissals were prompted by their participation in a racist orgy during what was supposed to be a goodwill trip to the homeland of the club’s billionaire owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.
  • (12) Obama finishes his South African trip on Sunday, when he plans to give a speech on US-Africa policy at the University of Cape Town.
  • (13) A spokesman for the public relations firm Bell Pottinger, which represents Rajapaksa, denied that he had cancelled his trip to the UK last month becuse of fears that he might face an arrest warrant.
  • (14) Not bad, but the time it takes to collect goods is unpaid, as is the trip back to the starting point.
  • (15) Queen's speech: the day ‘psychoactive drugs’ tripped off the royal tongue Read more The first Queen’s speech of the second term should be golden.
  • (16) • earthseasky.org North Zakynthos Potamitis Brothers, North Zakynthos Where to stay: Potamitis Brothers The brothers run boat trips (see below), but also own some rather special accommodation perched on the cliffs of Cape Skinari on the northern tip of Zakynthos.
  • (17) Not only did it make every grocery-store run a guilt trip; it made me feel selfish for caring more about birds in the present than about people in the future.
  • (18) She was so exhausted from her trip to London she said she might stay there for 48 hours.
  • (19) There are so many African migrants in Libya wanting to make the dangerous trip to Europe that Tripoli zoo has been turned into a processing centre for them.
  • (20) Undeterred, Madonna, who has never been to Africa before, plans a trip to Malawi with husband Guy Ritchie - who has quietly visited the country earlier in the year.