单词 | to trip out |
释义 | > as lemmasto trip out a. transitive. To release (a catch, lever, or the like) by contact with a projection; to operate (a mechanism) in this way. Also more widely, to cause to operate or respond; spec. in Electronics, to cause (a bistable device) to change from one stable state to the other; to trip out, to render electrically disconnected, esp. as an automatic action. Cf. trip n.1 9. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > cause to operate [verb (transitive)] work1591 act1597 to put onc1842 operate1847 trip1897 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > cause to begin to act or operate > by specific means trip1897 punch1903 snick1927 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > operation of electronic devices > [verb (transitive)] > initiate change to turn on1824 key1929 trip1936 trigger1937 to turn down1941 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical power, electricity > distribution system > cease operating [verb (intransitive)] to trip out1950 1897 Daily News 4 Nov. 6/4 An automatic parachute was to spread itself to make the descent and ‘trip’ the camera as it gracefully came to earth. 1936 Sun (Baltimore) 25 Jan. 5/8 It was eleven minutes after the electrical apparatus operating the gas generating equipment was tripped before physicians pronounced Foster dead. 1937 Rev. Sci. Instruments 8 414/2 It is necessary that at each incident pulse the circuit shall be tripped from one equilibrium state to the other. 1950 Engineering 20 Jan. 79/3 The gap was in the form of an expulsion tube..this arrangement helping to extinguish quickly the power-follow current so that the transformer was not tripped out. 1953 C. A. Lindbergh Spirit of St. Louis ii. vi. 307 I tripped by safety-belt buckle..and rolled out over the high rim of the cockpit. 1961 Ann. Reg. 1960 396 This light in turn tripped more atoms until none were left in the excited state. 1967 Electronics 6 Mar. 126/2 When the critical temperature is reached, the resistance of the thermistor changes to allow the proper value of current to flow, and this trips a relay. 1972 P. Cleife Slick & Dead xxviii. 233 Tripping the quick-release of my harness, I leapt from my seat. 1977 Daily Tel. 25 Oct. 2/1 ‘The damn thing didn't even trip our noise meters,’ he was quoted as having said after last week's three days of test landings and take-offs at Kennedy Airport. 1978 Sci. Amer. Mar. 146/3 When I tripped the switch S1, the ouputs from Q and Q of IC 1A changed states: the Q then produced a logical-1 signal. 1981 New Scientist 29 Oct. 295/2 Another tree..in East Sussex caused a similar fault, tripping out another 400 kV supergrid line feeding the south coast. < as lemmas |
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