Recce vs. Trip — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Recce and Trip
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Recce
Another term for reconnaissance
Trip
A going from one place to another; a journey.
Recce
Another term for reconnoitre
Trip
A stumble or fall.
Recce
Reconnaissance.
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Trip
A maneuver causing someone to stumble or fall.
Recce
Reconnaissance.
Trip
A mistake.
Recce
Relating to reconnaissance.
Trip
A hallucinatory experience induced by a psychedelic drug
An acid trip.
Recce
Reconnoitre.
Trip
An intense, stimulating, or exciting experience
A power trip.
Recce
Reconnaissance (by shortening)
Trip
A usually temporary but absorbing interest or preoccupation
He's on another health food trip.
Trip
A certain way of life or situation
"deny that his reclusiveness is some sort of deliberate star trip" (Patricia Bosworth).
Trip
A light or nimble tread.
Trip
A device, such as a pawl, for triggering a mechanism.
Trip
The action of such a device.
Trip
To stumble.
Trip
To move nimbly with light rapid steps; skip.
Trip
To be released, as a tooth on an escapement wheel in a watch.
Trip
To make a trip.
Trip
To make a mistake
Tripped up on the last question.
Trip
(Slang) To have a drug-induced hallucination.
Trip
To cause to stumble or fall.
Trip
To trap or catch in an error or inconsistency.
Trip
To release (a catch, trigger, or switch), thereby setting something in operation.
Trip
To raise (an anchor) from the bottom.
Trip
To tip or turn (a yardarm) into a position for lowering.
Trip
To lift (an upper mast) in order to remove the fid before lowering.
Trip
A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
We made a trip to the beach.
Trip
A stumble or misstep.
He was injured due to a trip down the stairs.
Trip
An error; a failure; a mistake.
Trip
(colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
He had a strange trip after taking LSD.
Trip
(by extension) Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
Ego trip
Power trip
Nostalgia trip
Guilt trip
Trip
A faux pas, a social error.
Trip
(engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
Trip
(electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
It's dark because the trip operated.
Trip
A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
Trip the light fantastic
Trip
(obsolete) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
Trip
The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
Trip
(nautical) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
Trip
A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
Trip
(obsolete) A troop of men; a host.
Trip
A flock of wigeons.
Trip
(intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
Be careful not to trip on the tree roots.
Trip
To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
A pedestrian was able to trip the burglar as he was running away.
Trip
(intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
Trip
To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
Trip
(transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
When we get into the factory, trip the lights.
Trip
(intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event
The alarm system tripped, throwing everyone into a panic.
Trip
(intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
After taking the LSD, I started tripping about fairies and colors.
Trip
(intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
Last summer, we tripped to the coast.
Trip
To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
Trip
(nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
Trip
(nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
Trip
To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
Trip
(poker slang) Of or relating to trips three of a kind.
Trip
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.
This horse anon began to trip and dance.
Come, and trip it, as you go,On the light fantastic toe.
She bounded by, and tripped so lightThey had not time to take a steady sight.
Trip
To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe.
Trip
To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false step; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble.
Trip
Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail.
A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble.
Virgil is so exact in every word that none can be changed but for a worse; he pretends sometimes to trip, but it is to make you think him in danger when most secure.
What? dost thou verily trip upon a word?
Trip
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.
The words of Hobbes's defense trip up the heels of his cause.
Trip
To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail.
To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword.
Trip
To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict; also called trip up.
These her women can trip me if I err.
Trip
To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
Trip
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
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.
Trip
A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt.
I took a trip to London on the death of the queen.
Trip
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.
Each seeming trip, and each digressive start.
Trip
A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
Trip
A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing.
And watches with a trip his foe to foil.
It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
Trip
A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
Trip
A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc.
Trip
A troop of men; a host.
Trip
A flock of widgeons.
Trip
A journey for some purpose (usually including the return);
He took a trip to the shopping center
Trip
A hallucinatory experience induced by drugs;
An acid trip
Trip
An accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall;
He blamed his slip on the ice
The jolt caused many slips and a few spills
Trip
An exciting or stimulting experience
Trip
A catch mechanism that acts as a switch;
The pressure activates the tripper and releases the water
Trip
A light or nimble tread;
He heard the trip of women's feet overhead
Trip
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
Trip
Miss a step and fall or nearly fall;
She stumbled over the tree root
Trip
Cause to stumble;
The questions on the test tripped him up
Trip
Make a trip for pleasure
Trip
Put in motion or move to act;
Trigger a reaction
Actuate the circuits
Trip
Get high, stoned, or drugged;
He trips every weekend
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