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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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trigger

UK /ˈtɹɪɡə/ · US /ˈtɹɪɡɚ/ noun, verb

Also a form of trig

Forms triggers triggering triggered tricker

  1. noun (firearms) A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun. “Just pull the trigger.”
  2. noun A similar device used to activate any mechanism.
  3. noun An event that initiates others, or incites a response. “Sleeping in an unfamiliar room can be a trigger for sleepwalking.”
  4. noun (ASMR) Something that triggers an ASMR response.
  5. noun A concept or image that upsets somebody by sparking a negative emotional response. “emotional trigger”
  6. noun (psychology) An event, experience or other stimulus that initiates a traumatic memory or a strong reaction in a person.
  7. noun (music) An electronic transducer allowing a drum, cymbal, etc. to control an electronic drum unit or similar device.
  8. noun (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.
  9. verb (transitive) To fire (a weapon); to set off or trip (a mechanism or function of a device).
  10. verb (transitive) To cause, to precipitate, to bring (something) about in response or as a result. “The controversial article triggered a deluge of angry letters from readers.”
  11. verb (transitive, figurative) To spark a response, especially a negative emotional response, in (a person). “This story contains a rape scene and may be triggering for rape victims.”
  12. verb (intransitive, especially electronics) To activate; to become active.

Synonyms

activate detonate fire set off trip precipitate cause initiate push someone's buttons gun trigger induction initiation actuate spark off spark trigger off touch off

Antonyms

glimmer

Etymology

Originally tricker, from Dutch trekker (“pull”, noun, as in drawer-pull, bell-pull), from Dutch trekken (“to drag, draw, pull”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.
  2. noun A piece, as a lever, which is connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it; especially (Firearms), the part of a lock which is moved by the finger to release the cock and discharge the piece. Trigger fish (Zoöl.), a large plectognath fish (Balistes Carolinensis or B. capriscus) common on the southern coast of the United States, and valued as a food fish in some localities. Its rough skin is used for scouring and polishing in the place of sandpaper. Called also leather jacket, and turbot.

Etymology [For older tricker, from D. trekker, fr. trekken to draw, pull. See Trick, n.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “trigger”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details