What's the difference between nimble and tripping?

Nimble


Definition:

  • (superl.) Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Van Persie's knee injury meant that Mata could work in tandem with the delightfully nimble Kagawa, starting for the first time since 22 January.
  • (2) By running a nimble, creative campaign with a youthful staff we connected with those who were new to the Labour party, new to campaigning and often new to politics.
  • (3) Photograph: Panagiotis Moschandreou for the Guardian The vast majority are Bangladeshis because fruit firms have discovered that they are nimble and can fill crates the most quickly.
  • (4) He practises two hours a day on his guitar, often just going up and down the scales, playing jazz, keeping his fingers nimble.
  • (5) Elfin and nimble, Clare had seemingly boundless energy.
  • (6) The gold was taken by the popular Puch, who performed a nimble routine to Mozart on his horse, Fine Feeling.
  • (7) Being largely free of credit cards, e-banking and the other “legacy issues” of a paper money system makes them “more nimble” and more open to adopt a different approach.
  • (8) In truth, however, Marriner's 13th dismissal – that of Ryan Shawcross for twice being outfoxed by more nimble-footed opponents either side of the interval – merely galvanized Stoke.
  • (9) That would allow them to select Fluker – a 339lbs bulldozer who could start from day one at right tackle, but lacks the nimble feet required to protect a quarterback's blind-side.
  • (10) Yellen agrees that the size of the Fed's balance sheet is unprecedented today, before nimbly suggesting Milton Friedman as another economist who'd considered the merits of a central bank acting in this way.
  • (11) This new chapter in American foreign policy will allow us to redirect some of the resources saved by ending these wars to respond more nimbly to the changing threat of terrorism, while addressing a broader set of priorities around the globe,” Obama told reporters on Tuesday after announcing his troop withdrawal timetable for Afghanistan .
  • (12) As shadow chancellor, while many commentators were patronising him as "Boy George", he used this feel for the game of politics, and his needling, nimble Commons style, to steadily undermine chancellor Brown, who had previously seemed impregnable to Tory attack.
  • (13) Liverpool go off with a well deserved one-goal lead, courtesy of Daniel Sturridges nimble footwork and splendid finish.
  • (14) As Shallow, he “pecks at the lines, nibbles at them like a parrot biting on a nut; for all his age, he darts here and there nimbly enough, even skittishly: forgetting nothing, not even the pleasure of Falstaff’s page, that ‘little tiny thief’.” But if Tynan was enamoured of Olivier, he was also alert to the miniaturist precision of Alec Guinness.
  • (15) Zoom's speech is nimble enough and there's a shot of performance director of British Cycling and the general manager of Team Sky, Dave Brailsford, who for my money, should win Coach of the Year.
  • (16) A last-minute compromise and some nimble legal footwork gives the chance to repeat the talks next year, but sets no timetable for a deal.
  • (17) In a Soho record shop, Alfie Allen flicks through the racks of vinyl with nimble fingers.
  • (18) The first single, Slow Slow, features a tumble of words over cool jazzy guitar chords, video game bleeps, nimble bass and splashy drums, plus a sample of Run DMC circa Peter Piper.
  • (19) David Lewis (@DG_Lewis) If Blaise does go, look forward to how it's presented + how nimbly Paris and Washington dance around usage of word 'coup' #BurkinaFaso October 30, 2014 Imad Mesdoua (@ImadMesdoua) #Burkina - COS General Honore #Traore still not spoken because of a reported "disagreement" between him and General Kwame #Lougue #Lwili October 30, 2014 Authorities at Dakar airport have also apparently confirmed that Compaoré arrived in Senegal this afternoon after fleeing the country.
  • (20) MEP (Spanish acronym for Perceptive-stimulative Model) is a visual test whose nimble and simple administration is apt for both individual and group studies.

Tripping


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trip
  • (a.) Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.
  • (a.) 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.
  • (n.) Act of one who, or that which, trips.
  • (n.) A light dance.
  • (n.) The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.

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.