Trigger

Definition: Trigger

Trigger

Noun

1. Lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun.

2. An act that sets in motion some course of events.

Verb

1. Actuate; "trigger a reaction".

2. Release or pull the trigger on; "Trigger a gun".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "trigger" was first used: 1660. (references)

Etymology: Trigger \Trig"ger\, noun. [For older tricker, from Dutch trekker, from trekken to draw, pull. See Trick, noun.]. (Websters 1913)

Computing

Nuclear Energy & Physics

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Synonyms: Trigger

Instrument

Handle, hilt, haft, shaft, heft, shank, blade, trigger, tiller, helm, treadle, key; turnscrew, screwdriver; knocker.

Warfare

Verb: arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war'; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight; combat; contend; battle with, break a lance with.

Crosswords: Trigger

My finger's on the trigger. Don't try to stop me, Smee! (Hook; writing credit: J.M. Barrie;)

Sometimes, I just want to put this gun right against her head, and ever so gently, pull the trigger. When I hear that sound more and more (Death on the Nile; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Anthony Shaffer)

If I pull this trigger, victory and Jade will both be mine. (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence)

I think that you'll find a little S&M will be necessary to trigger off a good healthy dose of hallucinations. (Videodrome; writing credit: David Cronenberg)

Oh well, it doesn't take an Einstein to pull the trigger! (Deadly Blessing; writing credit: Glenn M. Benest; Matthew Barr)

Pulled my trigger,now he's dead, (Bohemian Rhapsody; performing artist: Queen; writing credit: Freddie Mercury)

But then your finger won't trigger the gun (Armageddon It; performing artist: Def Leppard)

I've got my finger on the trigger (LOVE IS IN CONTROL; performing artist: Donna Summer)

Ichy finger trigger, man, Luda don't squeeze (Saturday (Oooh! Oooh!); performing artist: Ludacris)

Trigger happy policing (Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler); performing artist: Marvin Gaye)

Quick on the Trigger (1971)

Finger on the Trigger (1965)

Trigger Treat (1960)

Quick on the Trigger (1948)

My Pal Trigger (1946)

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Books

• Cosmic Trigger II : Down to Earth (reference)

• Light Techniques: That Trigger Transformations (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• My Pal Trigger (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Chrono Trigger [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Trigger Effect (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Chrono Trigger (reference)

• Kensington(R) Dust Blaster(R) Pro With Trigger (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• OXO Good Grips Trigger Ice Cream Scoop (reference)

• Gardena 36840-12 Four-Pattern Trigger Nozzle (reference)

• Rain Bird PLT2/B52 Platinum, 6 Pattern Cushion Grip Trigger Nozzle Combo Pack (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Nested pipes, one within another, provide more secure habitat for these three species of black trigger fish, Melichthys vidua, spiny puffer, Diodon hystrix, and squirrel fish, Myripristis sp. yellow tang surgeon fish, Zebrasoma flavescens. This type of. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Figure 20. Horizontal shutter plankton net first invented by Prince Albert I of Monaco in 1889. Left: view of the assembled unit. Right: the messenger to trigger operation of the unit. This net would be lowered to a specified depth and then a messenger sent down the line to open it and capture drifting fauna at depth. This was first tested by Prince Albert I off Madeira in 1889. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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He must have had a steady hand at a trigger who could have got a shot off half so fast.

Marius was tormenting the trigger of his pistol.

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Health

P. ovale also can trigger relapses. (references)

The most common trigger is an infection. (references)

Many forms of damage can trigger cell death. (references)

Business

Substantial price gaps across clients or transactions may trigger additional price reductions. (references)

Such tariff rate quotas trigger significantly higher duties after a predetermined quantity threshold of imports is exceeded. (references)

The convergence of telecommunications and information technology and stiff competition trigger the purchase of new technologically advanced cable equipment. (references)

Economic History

Norway

We expect no major change in the market the coming years, but a lower dollar could trigger some increase in U.S. sales. (references)

Netherlands

Sharply rising inflation may invite trade unions to table higher than expected contract wage demands and trigger a feared for wage-price spiral. (references)

India

This will not only trigger new investment in distribution and transmission; it will also provide a new impetus in the form of bankable customers to the private power generators. (references)

Human Rights

Argentina

The Coordinator Against Police and Institutional Repression (CORREPI), a group of lawyers which tracks such cases, reported that security forces killed 98 unarmed persons in cases known as "gatillo facil" (easy trigger or readiness to shoot first) between November 1, 2000 and November 30, 2001, compared with 81 cases the year before. (references)

Trade

Philippines

Under the special safeguard measure, an additional special safeguard duty may be imposed on an agricultural product, if its cumulative import volume in a given year exceeds its trigger volume, or if the CIF import price is less than its trigger price. (references)

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Expressions using "trigger": bistable trigger ♦ bistable trigger circuit ♦ gun trigger ♦ hair trigger ♦ monostable trigger circuit ♦ pull the trigger ♦ quick on the trigger ♦ Schmidt trigger ♦ Schmidt trigger circuit ♦ Schmidt trigger function ♦ squeeze the trigger ♦ trigger finger ♦ trigger fish ♦ trigger guard ♦ trigger mechanism ♦ trigger off ♦ trigger price ♦ trigger pulse ♦ trigger zone. Additional references.

Beginning with "trigger": trigger-controlled, trigger-event, trigger-features, trigger-finger, trigger-guard, trigger-happy, trigger-off, trigger-release.

Ending with "trigger": cap-trigger, hair-trigger, memory-trigger, re-trigger, self-trigger, three-trigger, two-trigger.

Albanian

shkrehës, këmbëz (leg, pedal), gishtëz (spoke, thimble). (various references)

Arabic 

‏زند البندقية (cock, gunlock), ‏علم المثلثات (trigonometry), ‏أثار (aggravate, arouse, awaken, bestir, burn, chafe, elicit, engage, evoke, exacerbate, exalt, excite, fan, ferment, flurry, foment, fray, frazzle, fret, fuss, gall, get, gravel, gripe, heat, impassion, inflame, infuriate, inspire, instigate, irritate, itch, jog, jostle, kindle, madden, move, outrage, pique, remnant, rile, rouse, sour, stimulate, switch on, tease, thrill, touch off, transport, trouble, turn on, unsettle, urge, vex, whet, whip, work), ‏شن (make, start). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ускорявам (accelerate, activate, advance, expedite, force, forward, hasten, hurry, hurry up, hustle, precipitate, quicken, smarten up, speed up, urge, zip), спусък на пушка, тригер (flip-flop), натискам спусъка, започвам (begin, come in, commence, enter, enter on, fall to, get under way, handsel, initiate, institute, jump off, kick off, lead, lead off, open, preface, premise, roll, set in, set out on, set up, settle in, start off, start up, take off, tee off, teethe). (various references)

Chinese 

觸發 (spark), 触发器, 扳機 . (various references)

Czech

kohoutek pušky. (various references)

Danish

trigger, udloeser, aftraekker. (various references)

Dutch

trigger, trekker (tractor), haan van een vuurwapen, haan (cock, rooster), <haan van een vuurwapen>. (various references)

Esperanto

ĉano. (various references)

Faeroese

hani (chicken, fowl). (various references)

Farsi 

ماشه(چیزی را)کشیدن , ماشه اسلحه , چرخ نگهدار, گیره (Bend, Clamp, Cleat, Dog, Jaw, Nip, Pawl, Pin, Pincer, Retainer), سنگ زیرچرخ . (various references)

Finnish

liipaisin. (various references)

French

détente, déclencher (to trip). (various references)

German

auslöser (actuator, cause, release, release button, shutter release, trigger mechanism, triggers, trippet), auslösen (arouse, bring forth, bring on, draw, initate, initiate, operate, pod, produce, ransom, redeem, release, set off, set up, spark, spring, take out, to actuate, touch off, trigger off, unleash), Abzug (copy, deduction, departure, discount, hood, moving away, outlet, print, pull, subtraction, vent, withdrawal). (various references)

Greek 

σκανδάλη (hammer). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"פעיל (activate, actuate, bring into play, operate, ply, set in motion, start, turn on, wield, work), �"�"ק (brace, clasp, clip, terminal point), �"רוך (bent, prepared, taut, tense, vigilant). (various references)

Hungarian

ravasz (lőfegyveré), kioldógomb (button), kioldó (release catch). (various references)

Indonesian

picu (cock, hammer (of gun)), pencetus (founder of an idea, impetus, spark), pemicu, pelatuk, menyulut (become heatedly angry, ignite, kindle), memicu. (various references)

Italian

grilletto. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

トリカルボン酸回路 (TCA, tricarboxylic acid cycle), 引金 (gunlock), 引き金 (gunlock). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

トリガー , トリガ , ひきがね (gunlock). (various references)

Korean 

방아� . (various references)

Manx

gard glish (trigger guard), fo ghlass (hair trigger, locked up, under arrest, under lock and key). (various references)

Pig Latin

iggertray

Portuguese

gatilho (detent, pawl). (various references)

Romanian

trãgaci (cock), piedicã (balk, bar, brake, check, clog, cumber, delay, difficulty, drag, drawback, embargo, encumbrance, fetter, hindrance, hitch, hold back, impediment, interference, jog, lock, marplot, objection, obstacle, obstruction, pull back, sear, set back, sprag, stay, stop, stopper, stopple, stumbling-bloc, trammel, traverse), mecanism de declanşare. (various references)

Russian 

спусковой крючок (hair trigger), триггер (flop), защелка (arresting device, click, detent, pawl, snap, trip). (various references)

Scottish

snap (the trigger of a gun). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oroz, okidač, obarač, izazvati (arouse, bring about, call up, cause, challenge, create, educe, engender, generate, induce, originate, produce, prompt, tempt, touch off, trigger off), aktivirati (activate, set off, spring, trip). (various references)

Spanish

gatillo (pelican), disparador (discharger, release). (various references)

Swedish

avtryckare på vapen. (various references)

Turkish

tetik (alert, awake, detent, nimble), neden olmak (beget, bring, bring about, bring along, call forth, cause, conduce, cost, create, determine, do, draw on, encompass, engender, excite, give rise to, incline, invite, originate, procure, produce, provoke, raise, touch off), deklanşör (release, timer), başlatmak (begin, commence, get going, give a start, induct, initiate, institute, launch, lead away, lead off, open, open the ball, set off, start, stir up). (various references)

Ukrainian

спусковий гачок, тригер, приводити в дію спусковий механізм. (various references)

Vietnamese 

hiểu nhanh. (various references)

Welsh

clicied (clicket). (various references)

trekker. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "trigger": triggered, triggerfish, triggerfishes, triggering, triggerman, triggermen, triggers. (additional references)

Words ending with "trigger": outrigger. (additional references)

Words containing "trigger": outriggers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Trigger" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: priggery, thigger, tiggar, tigge, tigger, Tragara, trager, tragger, trige, Trigen, triger, triget, triggar, triggel, trigget, triggger, triggler, trigguer, Troger, Truger, Trygve, ttrigger. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: rigger.

-2 letters: rerig, tiger, trier.

-3 letters: girt, grig, grit, rite, tier, tire, trig.

-4 letters: egg, erg, err, get, gie, gig, git, ire, reg, rei, ret, rig, teg, tie.

-5 letters: er, et, it, re, ti.

+1 letter: triggers.

+2 letters: gartering, outrigger, regrating, triggered.

+3 letters: gingerroot, outriggers, regrafting, regranting, regreeting, regretting, stragglier, triggering, triggerman, triggermen.

+4 letters: gingerroots, regathering, registering, regurgitate, restringing, retargeting, strangering, triggerfish.

+5 letters: forgathering, intergrading, regenerating, regurgitated, regurgitates, remortgaging, reregulating, retrograding.