Meaning of overtrip | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To trip over nimbly; to skip lightly over.
   obsolete, transitive
2. To stumble and fall over
3. To move where another is also moving or occur at the same time as another is occurring; to fail to coordinate (with)
4. To burgeon so as to exceed a limit.
5. To tip a balance.
6. To be oversensitive in triggering a fail-safe mechanism, especially to incorrectly activate or trip a circuit breaker.

Examples

“She does not ride rough shod over people, but she gently overtrips them with her little pointed French heels, and leaves wounds in all the hearts that have opened to receive her.”

“In such a night did Thisbe fearfully overtrip the dew , and saw the lion's shadow ere himself, and ran dismay'd away”

“I overtripped thy feelers far outstretched And fell , kerwhango , down upon my head , Raising a scar that time can ne'er efface !”

“The tassel of the hearth-rug has flung down the bass-drum, and he and his dapple-grey horse lie overtripped, slipped out of line, with the little lead drumsticks glistening to the fire's shine.”

“Shot—Who shoots?—Blood? Sulfur—Feet overtrip— Legs overrush — Blood— Fear—Chase— Fly— Yell—”

“MY selul Zabia, whose rhythm in walking and mine in swaying had reached together a degree of harmony sufficient to establish peace between us, threaded her way through the tuberosities of the plain without overtripping, or disturbing my sleep.”

“Wherever we stopped, wherever we went, crowds of people overtripping one another came to gaze at the President's bride .”

“The words cam thickly, now halting and now overtripping each other.”

“His bow seems ever on the verge of overtripping itself ( though it doesn't ) , as if his next note is already contained in the current one .”

“All its sweetness, its wild purity, its slow, sorrowful strength, and its sudden overtripping, overmastering joy , drifted out upon the sunshine of the meadow, the varied phrases coming turn and turn about with long intervening silences, as though the singer ruminated on all the beauty before her, and unconsciously sang her thoughts aloud.”

“Morever there was nothing extraordinary in any such exhortations by a divine when he did not overtrip the limits of his proper counsel to his flock, which definitely was within the category of his duties.”

“A shock, a shout, a gathering up of his splendid figure as if to overtrip the stature God gave him, and John Wilkes Booth fell headlong to the floor, lying there in a heap, a little life remaining.”

“He overtrips the balances, takes his sodas from months-old cardboard cartons, and uses local tap water already highly alkaline.”

“About Amla , the novelist writes : " Sita fought to overtrip this too perfect balance between reality and hallucination , the present and future that was not to be..she was always seeking for something that in this precarious situation, would emerge tangible and permanent"”

“Despite the fact that during last five decades world food production has increased almost threefold, population has increased at such a rate in less developed countries that it overtripped the food production .”

“In order not to overtrip for faults behind the relay, it should be set to allow a CTI of about 0.6 second .”

“Cross-polarized mho relays would under some fault conditions overtrip for faults on adjacent lines because of the use of a single comparator for both the direction and reach measurement, and therefore additional measuring criteria are required.”

“Switchgear ACB C2 in the switchyard service building that houses 12.8-kV switchgear overtripped during the fault.”

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