Triggery vs Trigger - What's the difference?
triggery | trigger |
Easily caused; tending to go off very frequently.
* 2001 , Douglas R. Mauro and Kevin J. Schmidt, Essential SNMP , O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., ISBN 9780596000202,
Tending to upset.
* antiabortion.com, notice to members, quoted in Miriam Grossman, Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student , Sentinel (2007), ISBN 978-1-59523-045-4,
Trigger mechanisms, taken collectively.
* 1876 August, J. W. Greene, “Distance of Combs from Centre to Centre”, in the American Bee Journal , Volume XII, Number 8, Thomas G. Newman (publisher),
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.
(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.
to fire a weapon
to initiate something
to spark a response, especially a negative emotional response, in (someone)
As nouns the difference between triggery and trigger
is that triggery is trigger mechanisms, taken collectively while trigger is a finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.As an adjective triggery
is easily caused; tending to go off very frequently.As a verb trigger is
to fire a weapon.triggery
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 134:
- The last thing you want is a threshold that is too triggery (one that goes off too many times) or a threshold that won’t go off until the entire building burns to the ground.
page 86:
- A trigger warning serves as a heads up that the post contains some possibly upsetting material. Triggery subjects include, but are not limited to, pregnant women, children, clinic protesters, insensitive people, ... anniversaries, etc.
Noun
(-)page 210:
- Now bear in mind there are no clap traps nor inconvenient and cumbersome triggery about all this, simply an inch hoop iron with saw-tooth notches cut 1½ inches apart and a frame made bevel edged all the entire length on the under side;
trigger
English
Noun
(en noun)- Just pull the trigger .
Derived terms
* trigger-happy * trigger point * trigger warningVerb
(en verb)- This story contains a rape scene and may be triggering for rape victims.