Used in a Sentence

tripods

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tripods.

Editorial note

And none of the other 50 people with their tripods are going to want your silly drone in their pictures.

Examples15
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A three-legged stand or mount.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of tripods gathered in one view.

noun

A three-legged stand or mount.

noun

(science fiction) A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897).

noun

(slang) A man with macrophallism.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tripods.

noun

A three-legged stand or mount.

noun

(science fiction) A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897).

noun

(slang) A man with macrophallism.

Example sentences

1

And none of the other 50 people with their tripods are going to want your silly drone in their pictures.

2

Still worth it but its much more expensive than a few go pros and tripods.

3

Plenty of other things interrupt views, like tripods or even other human standing nearby.

4

So really, if people want to use our site for doing things with tripods and zoom lenses, that's up to them, not us.

5

We kitesurf and use GoPros, often on tripods on the beach.

6

There are 200000 mounts available for all kinds of tripods.

7

More men might be familiar with bipods (e.g., affixed to a rifle), or monopods and tripods (from the male-dominated photography hobby), or even gastropods or pedals...

8

They have antigrav, yet they need to land and rest on tripods, leaving indentations in the ground (when they're not too busy making crop circles, that is).

9

At around that age I read The Tripods trilogy and liked it.

10

For anyone else confused, as I was, by the Everest trek photos: these were taken with tripods and not with the new Trekker gear.

11

I assume the thinking was in part that the primary audience would be shooting on tripods and could just combine bracketed photos on the computer.

12

Saying you could just wave your phone around and extrapolate a 3D scene is easily 10+ years out, because people make terrible tripods, and the requirements for planarity, etc.

Proper noun examples

1

Tripods get an honorable mention at $80.

2

As a kid I was absolutely stunned by The Tripods.

3

In the '80s we have the last gasp of Dr Who, we have The Tripods, V, Day of the Triffids, and a bunch of one-off adaptations.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use tripods in a sentence?

And none of the other 50 people with their tripods are going to want your silly drone in their pictures.

What does tripods mean?

A three-legged stand or mount.

What part of speech is tripods?

tripods is commonly used as noun.