trigger
/ˈtrɪɡə
/- Press the trigger to fire, and the missile is on its way, its own IR seeker taking over.
- He chuckled and pulled the trigger, firing at the targets even though he wasn't in the booths.
- Bullets impacted the floor around me as I pulled the trigger and fired back.
- The answers to these questions will help you identify some of the reasons for the decision you made, to help you identify triggers, or situations that may be difficult for you.
- Plus, there aren't any triggers or events in the scenarios, and so the only thing that makes them play differently is the map they take place on, but the maps are a joke.
- Event triggers and in-game cinematics will then guide you although you will determine how a mission will be accomplished.
- The concept of the device is to activate a remote sensor that will trigger the device on the vehicle that will bring it to a stop.
- If the photon passes through the mirror, it automatically triggers a light-sensing device, which fires the gun and shoots the cat dead.
- Each time soap was dispensed, the device was triggered to record one count.
Synonyms
- Here again, the emblem suggests a chain of catastrophic, unspeakable events triggered by irresistible emotions.
- The exact cause of psoriasis is not known but it is understood that stress can trigger an outbreak.
- You can reduce the itching, inflammation, and scaling of psoriasis by reducing stress; high stress often triggers outbreaks.
Synonyms
Phrases
quick on the trigger
Origin
Early 17th century: from dialect tricker, from Dutch trekker, from trekken 'to pull'.
trek from mid 19th century:
The Boers were originally Dutch settlers in South Africa, who got their name from the Dutch for ‘countryman, farmer’ (see boor). Between 1835 and 1837 large numbers of Boers, discontented with British rule in the Cape area of South Africa, migrated north and eventually founded the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State. This was the Great Trek, which largely introduced the Dutch word trek to the English-speaking world. It came from trekken ‘to pull, travel’, from which track may also derive. During the 19th century the word was restricted to South African contexts, but during the 20th migrated into international English for any long, arduous journey. The US science-fiction television programme Star Trek was not a success when it was first shown in 1966 and has given us Trekkie as a word for a Star Trek fan. The ‘pull’ sense of trekken lies behind the thing you pull on a gun, the trigger (early 17th century).