What's the difference between trippant and tripping?
Trippant
Definition:
(a.) See Tripping, a., 2.
Example Sentences:
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 Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.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.