What is "trig"

Usage examples of "trig".

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.

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.

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.

Oddly enough, their excited squeakings and chitterings as Farli dared Trig to more and more outrageous maneuvers helped dispel the unreality of this bizarre environment.

Jancis's bronze fire-lizard, Trig, became so agitated that she had a hard time calming him down enough to make sense of his response.

When I feel like enough time's gone by for us to be able to do a little snooping without be­ing trigged, mayhap we'll do it.

You don’t have to, you know,” she said, but Trigs eyes were orange-red with challenge and confidence.