Trigger

Definition

trigger /'trÇgǝ(r)/ n ၁။ ခလုတ္။ ေမာင္း။ squeeze the trigger ❍ have one's finger on the trigger (ie be ready to shoot). ❍ GUN ၂။ ~ (for sth) ခလုတ္။ ေမာင္း။ စနက္။ မီးပြား။ မီးစ။ the trigger for change ❍ chemical triggers in the brain ❍ His resignation was the trigger that brought about the company's collapse. v ~ sth (off) အစပ်ဳိးေပးသည္။ ခလုတ္ႏိွပ္သည္။ စနက္မီးပ်ဳိးေပး သည္။ The riots were triggered (off) by a series of police arrests. ❍ The smoke triggered off the alarm. ❏ trigger-happy adj ( infml derog ) ထစ္ခနဲဆို ပစ္ခ်င္ ခတ္ခ်င္ေသာ။ ပစ္ရန္ လက္ယားေနေသာ။

Examples

1. The news of his death triggered more violence.
2. You find that strangely familiar smells trigger memories of childhood.
3. [trigger a response/reaction] : The report has triggered a fierce response from the governor.
4. A sensor had triggered the security camera.