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Trigger vs Tripped - What's the difference?

trigger | tripped |

As verbs the difference between trigger and tripped

is that trigger is to fire a weapon while tripped is past tense of trip.

As a noun trigger

is a finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.

trigger

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.
    • Just pull the trigger .
  • A similar device used to activate any mechanism.
  • An event that initiates others, or incites a response.
  • (psychology) An event, experience or other stimulus that initiates a traumatic memory or action in a person.
  • (electronics) A pulse in an electronic circuit that initiates some component.
  • (computing) 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-happy * trigger point * trigger warning

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to fire a weapon
  • to initiate something
  • to spark a response, especially a negative emotional response, in (someone)
    • This story contains a rape scene and may be triggering for rape victims.

    See also

    * (Trigger) * (Database trigger)

    External links

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    tripped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (trip)

    • trip

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
    • I took a trip to London on the death of the queen.
  • *
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  • A stumble or misstep.
  • (figurative) An error; a failure; a mistake.
  • * (John Milton)
    • Imperfect words, with childish trips .
  • * Harte
    • Each seeming trip , and each digressive start.
  • A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
  • A faux pas, a social error.
  • Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
  • (engineering) A mechanical or electrical cutout device.
  • A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
  • * Sir (Walter Scott)
    • His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door.
  • (obsolete) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
  • * (Geoffrey Chaucer)
    • A trip of cheese.
  • The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
  • * (John Dryden)
    • And watches with a trip his foe to foil.
  • * South
    • It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
  • (nautical) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
  • (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
  • (obsolete) A troop of men; a host.
    • (Robert of Brunne)
  • A flock of wigeons.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * bad trip * boat trip * business trip * day trip * ego trip * fam trip * field trip * guilt trip * head trip * power trip * road trip * round trip * trip down memory lane * trip hop * trippy * trip to the woodshed

    Verb

  • To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot.
    • Be careful not to trip on the tree roots.
  • To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble.
    • A pedestrian was able to trip the burglar as he was running away.
  • * 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
    • Early in his boyhood he had learned to form ropes by twisting and tying long grasses together, and with these he was forever tripping Tublat or attempting to hang him from some overhanging branch.
  • To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc.
  • * John Locke
    • till his tongue trip
  • * South
    • A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble.
  • * Dryden
    • Virgil is so exact in every word that none can be changed but for a worse; he pretends sometimes to trip , but it is to make you think him in danger when most secure.
  • (obsolete) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
  • * Shakespeare
    • These her women can trip me if I err.
  • To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
    • When we get into the factory, trip the lights.
  • To be activated, as by a signal or an event.
    • The alarm system tripped , throwing everyone into a panic.
  • To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
    • After taking the LSD, I started tripping about fairies and colors.
  • To journey, to make a trip.
    • Last summer we tripped to the coast.
  • (dated) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
  • * Milton
    • Come, and trip it, as you go, / On the light fantastic toe.
  • * Dryden
    • She bounded by, and tripped so light / They had not time to take a steady sight.
  • (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
  • (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.

    • Derived terms

    * trip out * trip over * tripper * trip the light fantastic * trip up * tripwire

    Adjective

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  • (poker slang) Of or relating to .
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