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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
trigger
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cause/bring on/trigger a reaction (=make someone ill)
▪ Wheat is one of the foods that are most likely to cause a reaction.
hair trigger
provoke/spark/trigger debate (=cause a debate to start)
▪ The episode provoked fierce debate about freedom of speech.
set off/trigger an explosion (=cause an explosion)
▪ Investigators believe a fuel leak may have triggered the explosion.
set off/trigger/activate the alarm (=make it start ringing)
▪ A window blew open, setting off the alarm.
trigger man
▪ Even if the trigger men are caught, those who ordered the killing escape punishment.
trigger/spark a boom (=start it)
▪ The lower interest rates triggered an economic boom.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hair
▪ Getting rid of weapons reduces the risk of accidental, unauthorised, hair trigger or pre-emptive use.
man
▪ He's not just a trigger man.
▪ Inspector Napoleon Hendrix said last year that Temple was believed to be a trigger man for drug dealers.
▪ The way he wrote it, I guessed he was as sure as anyone that I had been the trigger man.
mechanism
▪ He said this type kills with a trigger mechanism.
▪ The magazine ended and there was only a faint click from the trigger mechanism.
▪ The answer was found during detailed studies of the trigger mechanism which activates the anemone's nematocysts or stinging cells.
point
▪ This scanner looks for trigger points.
▪ A short-term goal provides a trigger point for such intermediate reinforcement.
▪ Where education reduces fertility, which is nearly everywhere, the trigger point varies according to cultural influences.
■ VERB
pull
▪ Without adequate built-in safeguards, there will be other Susan Allens who will pull the trigger before they cry for help.
▪ I thought about pulling the trigger, and the gun exploded, slapping back against my hand.
▪ He had tried several times at a local shooting range but he couldn't bring himself to pull the trigger.
▪ He checked that the breech was empty of bullets, then pumped the rifle up and pulled the trigger.
▪ He pulled the trigger - and to his horror shot Christopher in the head.
▪ She put the barrel of a pistol in her mouth and pulled the trigger.
▪ He pulled the trigger, believing that the safety catch was on.
▪ Interim athletic director Paul Bubb was right to pull the trigger and fire Cassidy on Wednesday.
squeeze
▪ I cocked the old gun and squeezed the trigger, and it just went forward too slowly to fire a round.
▪ Then, swallowing once, he shut his eyes and squeezed the trigger.
▪ He snapped off a shot, hardly even bothering to point the gun before he squeezed the trigger.
▪ Breathing becomes slower, then more shallow and finally the shooter holds about half a breath and squeezes the trigger.
▪ He squeezed the trigger and the echo of the shot blasted all around the stairwell.
▪ Leese rolled the throttle open to the indent starting position and squeezed the trigger switch on his collective.
▪ He held the piece up and sighted it, squeezing the trigger, allowing the hammer to fall on an empty chamber.
▪ I squeeze the trigger, recoil, smell the metallic smoke, hear the shotgun crack.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He snapped off a shot, hardly even bothering to point the gun before he squeezed the trigger.
▪ I pause because telling the dream out loud has tripped the trigger.
▪ Research has shown that lack of sleep and other triggers such as stress cause a deficiency of the brain chemical dopamine.
▪ The trigger, which gives the fish its name, is the leading ray of its dorsal fin which has become bony.
▪ This time when the firing stopped, he stuck the shotgun round the door with his right hand and pulled the trigger.
▪ Where education reduces fertility, which is nearly everywhere, the trigger point varies according to cultural influences.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
off
▪ Menopause symptoms are similar to those of food intolerance and may in fact be triggered off by hormone changes.
▪ For Francesca, who's almost 3, suffers from a brain disorder which triggers off convulsive fits.
▪ Begin by jotting down what you think they are, plus any thoughts this triggers off.
▪ Any inability to carry the weight on the hind-legs will trigger off resistance in the mouth.
▪ Deliberately he walked into the minefield, triggering off every mine and thus absorbing in his own body the entire explosion.
▪ Verbal echoes and ambiguities may trigger off metaphorical associations that are not necessarily conceptually justified.
▪ They will be less likely to trigger off more spots.
▪ If perception has to be triggered off by what is actually there, then it is constrained to be true.
■ NOUN
action
▪ The process Examine.Request was considered to be the transaction centre as it triggers many courses of actions in the system.
▪ The result is that a larger stimulus is required to trigger an action potential.
▪ Some of the disturbances were triggered by the provocative actions of local Whigs and Dissenters.
alarm
▪ It will produce the hard data needed to analyse resource utilisation and will trigger an alarm mechanism allowing managers to control access.
▪ When triggered, the alarm seems to call in squads of immune cells that surround tuberculosis bacteria and keep them from spreading.
▪ Within one minute of being triggered, the alarm summons about 50 staff to the problem spot.
▪ Control were trying to get hold of him, to verify that he had accidentally triggered his window alarm.
attack
▪ Certain foods can trigger an attack.
▪ Still, the smell of smoke inevitably triggers an asthma attack.
▪ They should also be avoided if you suffer from asthma; concentrated steam may trigger an attack.
▪ For example, many teen-agers with asthma find that exercise triggers an attack.
change
▪ Menopause symptoms are similar to those of food intolerance and may in fact be triggered off by hormone changes.
▪ This triggers chemical changes in your body, which reacts as if threatened by a foreign substance.
▪ Stage 4 is the familiar multiplier, only this time triggered off by a change in imports and exports.
▪ But he has had personal success at triggering such changes.
debate
▪ Zamfara already adopted sharia in October, triggering a debate on federalism and civil liberties.
▪ The first state to publicly debate the issue of competition in public education, Minnesota triggered the national debate about choice.
▪ Even the slightest interface aspect could trigger a heated debate, with adherents of opposing solutions arguing with near-Jesuitical intensity.
event
▪ The events that triggered our dieter into breaking the diet were: 1.
▪ This is a condition affecting the events which trigger the operation and will enable the triggering of that operation.
▪ There is no evidence that stress causes addiction as such although a stressful life event may trigger latent addictive disease.
▪ So, the stereotyped growth cycle provides a clock, or calendar, by means of which embryological events may be triggered.
▪ Operations on attributes will be necessary following the event: an event triggers an operation or a series of operations.
memory
▪ But the textbook gods never triggered any four-volume memory in my head.
▪ The smell triggers your memory first.
▪ The triggering at birth of memories about difficult past birth experiences sometimes results in anger or sadness.
problem
▪ A vicious circle has triggered her problems.
▪ Graduating payments and particularly the high score needed to trigger any payment are problems.
▪ Therapeutic counselling for long-term problems - these may be triggered by the fertility problem and sometimes need outside referral to marital therapy.
▪ Often, this realisation is quite sudden, being triggered by a particular problem or crisis.
reaction
▪ Perceptions contain no element of approval or disapproval though they may trigger a reaction in terms of approval.
▪ That released the firing pin, which in turn fired the percussion cap and triggered a chemical reaction that generated oxygen.
▪ Explain that you have an allergy to certain foods and that these will trigger a reaction.
▪ Conditions like these would likely trigger a rapid reaction.
▪ Once it has been killed, the kitten may trigger off a new reaction.
▪ Scientists have strong evidence that Type I diabetes is a metabolic disorder triggered by an autoimmune reaction.
▪ Disagreeing on seven out of ten occasions triggers a defensive reaction or even further disagreements.
▪ They reach a point where even the smallest stimulus will trigger off a massive reaction.
release
▪ Just how the sperm triggers the explosive release of calcium in the egg is still something of a mystery.
▪ This may be caused when capsaicin triggers the release of endorphins, the body's natural painkillers.
response
▪ Could she have triggered some unwanted response in this mysterious man, entirely by accident?
▪ The book, Golf in the Kingdom, triggered responses I had not expected.
▪ Just a few molecules were enough to trigger a severe response.
▪ It will be made of a string of cocaine molecules that triggers an immune antibody response.
▪ Just seeing me there would trigger thief responses of some one like Gharr.
▪ It triggers a response intended to freeze the organization at the present point in its development.
▪ There are so many ways in which our intolerance will trigger an angry response either in ourselves or others.
▪ The Powell speech and the dockers' march triggered a response.
war
▪ It would only take a computer error or a mutiny by some of those manning the weapons to trigger a global war.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The incident could trigger a civil war.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Doling out parts of the database to various companies could have triggered chaos on the Internet, Fernandes said.
▪ He gazed at an ineffable, agonizing radiance which only he could perceive, banishing whatever throwback emotions the brew had triggered.
▪ He would trigger the necessary invitation on his return to Moscow.
▪ It is with these shares that one is concerned to ensure that the Schedule E charge can not be triggered.
▪ Many of these same bacterial culprits are involved in triggering bad breath.
▪ Perhaps difficulty in obtaining natron through the traditionally established routes triggered the use of halophytic plants instead.
▪ The policy shift was triggered by a sharp increase in violent crimes committed by young offenders during the late 1980s.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trigger

Trigger \Trig"ger\, n. [For older tricker, from D. trekker, fr. trekken to draw, pull. See Trick, n.]

  1. A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.

  2. (Mech.) A piece, as a lever, which is connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it; especially (Firearms), the part of a lock which is moved by the finger to release the cock and discharge the piece.

    Trigger fish (Zo["o]l.), a large plectognath fish ( Balistes Carolinensis or Balistes capriscus) common on the southern coast of the United States, and valued as a food fish in some localities. Its rough skin is used for scouring and polishing in the place of sandpaper. Called also leather jacket, and turbot.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
trigger

"device by means of which a catch or spring is released and a mechanism set in action," 1650s, earlier tricker (1620s), from Dutch trekker "trigger," from trekken "to pull" (see trek). Tricker was the usual form in English until c.1750. Trigger-happy is attested from 1943.

trigger

1930, from trigger (n.). Related: Triggered; triggering.

Wiktionary
trigger

n. 1 A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun. 2 A similar device used to activate any mechanism. 3 An event that initiates others, or incites a response. 4 (context psychology English) An event, experience or other stimulus that initiates a traumatic memory or action in a person. 5 (context electronics English) A pulse in an electronic circuit that initiates some component. 6 (context computing English) An SQL procedure that may be initiated when a record is inserted, updated or deleted; typically used to maintain referential integrity. 7 (context online gaming English) A text string that, when received by a player, will cause the player to execute a certain command. 8 (context archaic English) A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity. vb. 1 (context transitive English) to fire a weapon 2 (context transitive English) to initiate something 3 (context transitive English) to spark a response, especially a negative emotional response, in (someone)

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WordNet
trigger

  1. v. put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits" [syn: trip, actuate, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off]

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

trigger

  1. n. lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun [syn: gun trigger]

  2. a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen

  3. an act that sets in motion some course of events [syn: induction, initiation]

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Wikipedia
Trigger

Trigger may refer to:

Trigger (EP)

Trigger is an EP and song by the Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames. The EP was released in 2003 from their 2002 album, Reroute to Remain.

The title song was used on the Freddy vs. Jason soundtrack.

Trigger (Only Fools and Horses)

Colin "Trigger" Ball is a fictional character in the popular BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses and its prequel Rock & Chips. He was played by Roger Lloyd-Pack in Only Fools and Horses and Lewis Osbourne in Rock & Chips.

Trigger (horse)

Trigger (originally named Golden Cloud, July 4, 1934 – July 3, 1965) was a palomino horse made famous in American Western films with his owner and rider, cowboy star Roy Rogers.

Trigger (particle physics)

In particle physics, a trigger is a system that uses criteria to rapidly decide which events in a particle detector to keep when only a small fraction of the total can be recorded. Trigger systems are necessary due to real-world limitations in computing power, data storage capacity and rates. Since experiments are typically searching for "interesting" events (such as decays of rare particles) that occur at a relatively low rate, trigger systems are used to identify the events that should be recorded for later analysis. Current accelerators have event rates greater than 1 MHz and trigger rates that can be below 10 Hz. The ratio of the trigger rate to the event rate is referred to as the selectivity of the trigger. For example, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has an event rate of 40 MHz (4·10 Hz), and the Higgs boson is expected to be produced there at a rate of roughly 1 Hz. The LHC detectors can manage to permanently store a few hundred events per second. Therefore the minimum selectivity required is 10, with much stricter requirements for the data analysis afterwards.

Trigger (firearms)

A trigger is a mechanism that actuates the firing sequence of a firearm or crossbow; a trigger may also start another mechanism such as a trap or a quick release. A small amount of energy applied to the trigger causes the release of much more energy.

In "double action" firearm designs, the trigger is also used to cock the firearm - and there are many designs where the trigger is used for a range of other functions. Although triggers usually consist of a lever actuated by the index finger, some such as the M2 Browning machine gun use the thumb, and others like the Springfield Armory M6 Scout use a "squeeze-bar trigger."

Trigger (guitar)

Trigger is a Martin N-20 nylon-string classical acoustic guitar used by country music singer-songwriter Willie Nelson. Early in his career, Nelson tested several guitars by different companies. After one of his guitars was destroyed in 1969, he purchased the Martin guitar.

Nelson based his desired style on Django Reinhardt's playing and guitar sound. He opted to amplify the acoustic guitar, resulting in his signature sound.

Trigger (band)

Trigger is a Serbian hard rock/ heavy metal band from Belgrade.

Trigger (company)

, stylized as TRIGGER, also known as Studio Trigger, is a Japanese animation studio founded by former Gainax employees Hiroyuki Imaishi and Masahiko Ohtsuka in August 2011.

Trigger (film)

Trigger is a Canadian comedy-drama film, released in 2010. Directed by Bruce McDonald, the film stars Molly Parker and Tracy Wright as Kat and Vic, former rock stars reuniting their band Trigger for the first time since their retirement.

The film was originally planned in the late 1990s as a companion film to McDonald's Hard Core Logo, which would have starred Hugh Dillon and Callum Keith Rennie. However, work on the film remained dormant until McDonald and screenwriter Daniel MacIvor decided to rewrite their original screenplay to be about two women instead. Rennie does, however, appear in the film as his Hard Core Logo character Billy Tallent.

The film's cast also includes Daniel MacIvor, Don McKellar, Sarah Polley, Lenore Zann, Carole Pope and Julian Richings. Brendan Canning of Broken Social Scene wrote the film's score.

Wright was undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer during the film's production. It was the last film she completed before her death.

Trigger (drums)

In drumming, a trigger is an electronic transducer that can be attached to a drum, cymbal or other instrument to enable it to control an electronic drum unit or similar device.

Specialised triggers are produced for specific instruments. A snare drum trigger, for example, needs two channels, one each for the rim and head, while a tom-tom drum trigger needs only to register strokes to the drum head.

Drum triggers gained great attention in the beginning of the 1990s, being extensively used on bass drums in metal music.

The advantage of using drum triggers is that potential problems associated with using microphones can be overcome by triggering pre-recorded samples. It is commonly quoted that less effort is required from the drummer when using drum triggers. The drum module to which the trigger is connected can be adjusted to accommodate a range of volumes, thus preserving the dynamic range of the drummer's playing. Triggers have a greater use in live performances than in studio recordings, since some drummers dislike the processed triggered sound, labelled by some as artificial.

Trigger (Porno Graffitti album)

Trigger is the eighth studio album by the Japanese pop-rock band Porno Graffitti. It was released on March 24, 2010 and was ranked first in the Oricon chart during 2010.

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Usage examples of "trigger".

We still do not know if Goering or the demented Dutch Anarchist Van der Lubbe set fire to the Reichstag, which triggered the Nazi terror.

I suppose getting paid five fifty an hour to be pelted by paintballs triggered by attitudinal tourists would do that to the best of us.

The flagship ballista and the accompanying human warships closed in on their fateful confrontation, reaching the line that would trigger the senseless slaughter of millions of humans inside the Bridge.

Holding down the trigger, Ryan fanned the hammer and put a barrage of miniballs into the man before he finally surrendered and slid to the floor in a crumbled heap.

Trying to force limp fingers to trigger the longblaster, he slumped over and lay unnaturally still within the billowing gray cloud.

He had instructed Brewster in the use of the matched revolvers, giving him a short lecture on gun safety, proper sight alignment, trigger control, and so forth, and Brewster had turned in a game, if not quite adequate performance.

Driving the bulldozer over it must have triggered it somehow, so driving over it again should get us back.

And finally, there would have been some stressor which triggered his initial homicidal rage.

He was shot, as soon afterward as the humpback could pull trigger, in the right eye, the forehead, the right ear, successively.

Bertz moved his finger along the edge of the trigger, his eye still at the scope, Lo Manto well within the kill range, the shot sure to penetrate center mass.

The slightest tick of the needle could trigger your instint and even before the actual data emerged from the machine the knowledge was there in your medulla, as sweet as the moment you plunged into a woman or as terrible as the ache of metastatic cancer in your belly.

Coordinated microprograms capable of changing their own environment, able to spring into production modes within an instant of encountering a trigger, create a cybernetic network powerful enough to initiate the impossibly articulated behavior of the composite cell.

Because that was the thing about minimalism, it was demanding, it asked a lot of you, everything that was in the minimalist room was balanced on a hair trigger of harmony, every object was precisely where it was supposed to be and the slightest thing out of place threw the whole delicate equilibrium into utter chaos.

The men stood again and pulled their triggers, so that a stuttering mistimed volley flamed in the dusk.

Hell was going to keep Bourne from his third kill--the Molt crouched behind his steaming power gun firing into the APC as fast as his finger could pull the trigger.