travel vs trip

travel

verb
  • To travel throughout (a place). 

  • To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball. 

  • To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit 

  • To force to journey. 

  • To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another. 

noun
  • An account of one's travels. 

  • The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke. 

  • The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point. 

  • Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed. 

  • The act of traveling; passage from place to place. 

  • A series of journeys. 

trip

verb
  • To journey, to make a trip. 

  • To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free. 

  • To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot 

  • To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch. 

  • To be activated, as by a signal or an event 

  • To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them. 

  • To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption. 

  • To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it. 

  • To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc 

  • To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs. 

noun
  • A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip. 

  • A journey; an excursion or jaunt. 

  • A stumble or misstep. 

  • A trip-switch or cut-out. 

  • Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition. 

  • A flock of wigeons. 

  • A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations. 

  • The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing. 

  • A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward. 

  • A mechanical cutout device. 

  • A faux pas, a social error. 

adj
  • Of or relating to trips (three of a kind). 

How often have the words travel and trip occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )