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detonator
English
Etymology
detonate +? -or
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?t.?.ne?.t?(?)/, /?d?tn?e?.t?(?)/
Noun
detonator (plural detonators)
- A device used to detonate an explosive device etc.
- (rail transport, Britain) a small explosive device attached to the railhead to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it.
- (archaic) Any explosive whose action is practically instantaneous.
- (obsolete) A gun fired by a percussion cap.
Synonyms
- (rail transport): torpedo (US)
Related terms
- detonate
- detonation
Translations
See also
- (device for detonating explosives): blasting cap
Anagrams
- denotator, rattooned, tetraodon
Danish
Noun
detonator c (singular definite detonatoren, plural indefinite detonatorer)
- A detonator
Declension
Further reading
- “detonator” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
Probably borrowed from English detonator.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?de?.to??na?.t?r/
- Hyphenation: de?to?na?tor
- Rhymes: -a?t?r
Noun
detonator m (plural detonators, diminutive detonatortje n)
- detonator.
Related terms
- detoneren
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: detonator
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch detonator, from English detonator.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [d?et?o?nat??r]
- Hyphenation: dé?to?na?tor
Noun
detonator, détonator (plural detonator-detonator, first-person possessive detonatorku, second-person possessive detonatormu, third-person possessive detonatornya)
- detonator: a device used to detonate an explosive device etc.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “detonator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Verb
d?ton?tor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of d?ton?
Romanian
Etymology
From French détonateur.
Noun
detonator n (plural detonatoare)
- detonator
Declension
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trigger
English
Etymology
Originally tricker, from Dutch trekker (“pull”, noun, as in drawer-pull, bell-pull), from Dutch trekken (“to drag, draw, pull”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?t????/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?t????/
- Rhymes: -???(?)
Noun
trigger (plural triggers)
- (firearms) A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.
- A similar device used to activate any mechanism.
- An event that initiates others, or incites a response.
- A concept or image that upsets somebody by sparking a negative emotional response.
- (psychology) An event, experience or other stimulus that initiates a traumatic memory or action in a person.
- (music) An electronic transducer allowing a drum, cymbal, etc. to control an electronic drum unit or similar device.
- (music) A device that manually lengthens (or sometimes shortens) the slide or tubing of a brass instrument, allowing the pitch range to be altered while playing.
- (electronics) A pulse in an electronic circuit that initiates some component.
- (databases) An SQL procedure that may be initiated when a record is inserted, updated or deleted; typically used to maintain referential integrity.
- (online gaming) A text string that, when received by a player, will cause the player to execute a certain command.
- (archaic) A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.
Derived terms
- trigger finger
- trigger guard
- trigger-happy
- triggerish
- triggerless
- triggerlike
- triggerman
- triggernometry
- trigger point
- trigger pricing
- trigger warning
- triggerwoman
Related terms
- trek
Translations
Verb
trigger (third-person singular simple present triggers, present participle triggering, simple past and past participle triggered)
- (transitive) To fire a weapon.
- Synonyms: activate, detonate, fire
- (transitive) To initiate something.
- Synonyms: activate, initiate
- (transitive, figuratively) To spark a response, especially a negative emotional response, in (someone).
- Synonym: push someone's buttons
- (transitive, figuratively, by extension of above, Internet slang) To intentionally offend someone, especially by expressing radical or edgy opinions.
- (intransitive, especially electronics) To activate; to become active.
Usage notes
- Among movements to promote mental health awareness, especially concerning autism; epilepsy; and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), using the to spark an esp. negative emotional response in sense for lesser matters is often considered offensive to and exclusive of those who regularly deal with triggers that aggravate their symptoms (meltdowns; seizures, anxiety attacks; etc.).
Descendants
- ? German: triggern
Translations
Further reading
- trigger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- database trigger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- trigger in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- trigger in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- trigger at OneLook Dictionary Search
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- what triggers the secondary appraisal of a stressor
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- what triggered the great depression
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