overtrip

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ trip.

Verb

overtrip (third-person singular simple present overtrips, present participle overtripping, simple past and past participle overtripped)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To trip over nimbly; to skip lightly over.
   • 1901 May, Ellizabeth Duer, “Phases of the Lady”, in The Junior Munsey, volume 10, number 2, page 197:

     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.

   • 2013, “Time Bettering Days (A Paper read in the Tucker Fellowship at the Spring Equinox of 1954)”, in Rosenstock-Huessy Papers:

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

2. To stumble and fall over
   • 1886, Puck - Volume 20, page 23:

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

   • 1916, Amy Lowell, Men, Women and Ghosts:

     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.

   • 2002, Kurt Schwitters, ‎Jerome Rothenberg, ‎Pierre Joris, Poems, Performance Pieces, Proses [sic], Plays, Poetics, page 6:

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

   • 2013, Ameen Rihani, Ibn Sa'Oud Of Arabia:

     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.

3. To move where another is also moving or occur at the same time as another is occurring; to fail to coordinate (with)
   • 1886, Laura Carter Holloway, The Ladies of the White House, page 110:

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

   • 1911, Van Tassel Sutphen, “The Talisman”, in Collier's, volume 47, page 27:

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

   • 1998, DSCH Journal - Issues 9-13, page 78:

     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 .

4. To burgeon so as to exceed a limit.
   • 1912, Tickner Edwardes, Neighbourhood: A Year's Life in and about an English Village, page 135:

     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.

   • 1951, Sudhansu Bhusan Sen, Indian Election Cases, 1935-1950, page 1026:

     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.

   • 2020, Edna M. Colman, White House Gossip: From Andrew Johnson to Calvin Coolidge:

     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.

5. To tip a balance.
   • 1946, American Photography - Volume 40, page 38:

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

   • 2005, Amar Nath Prasad, Indian Writing in English: Critical Appraisals, page 197:

     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"

   • 2008, S.P. Misra, ‎S.N. Panday, Essential Environmental Studies, page 123:

     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 .

6. (electronics) To be oversensitive in triggering a fail-safe mechanism, especially to incorrectly activate or trip a circuit breaker.
   • 1992, Stanley H. Horowitz, Protective Relaying for Power Systems II, page 131:

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

   • 2003, Walter A. Elmore, Protective Relaying: Theory and Applications, page 482:

     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.

   • 2011, Mohamed A. Ibrahim, Disturbance Analysis for Power Systems, page 507:

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

Noun

overtrip (plural overtrips)

1. (electronics) An instance of overtripping.
   • 2014, J. Lewis Blackburn, ‎Thomas J. Domin, Protective Relaying: Principles and Applications, page 599:

     As noted previously, the west coast blackout of July 2, 1996, was initiated by an overtrip that resulted in the simultaneous loss of two 345 kV lines.

   • 2017, Surya Santoso, ‎H. Wayne Beaty, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, page 1188:

     However, these schemes may overtrip for out-of-section faults that occur while the channel is not available.

   • 2018, Anthony M. Sleva, Protective Relay Principles, page 186:

     When selecting setpoints for overcurrent relays, margins need to be included in order to account for errors that could result in an overtrip or a failure to trip.