Synonyms of the word

trigger

• n. A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.
• n. A similar device used to activate any mechanism.
• n. An event that initiates others, or incites a response.
• n. A concept or image that upsets somebody.
• n. (psychology) An event, experience or other stimulus that initiates a traumatic memory or action in a person.
• n. (electronics) A pulse in an electronic circuit that initiates some component.
• n. (databases) An SQL procedure that may be initiated when a record is inserted, updated or deleted; typically…
• n. (online gaming) A text string that, when received by a player, will cause the player to execute a certain…
• n. (archaic) A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.
• v. (transitive) To fire a weapon.
• v. (transitive) To initiate something.
• v. (transitive) To spark a response, especially a negative emotional response, in (someone).

activate

• v. To put into action, to put to work.
• v. To turn on.

actuate

• v. (transitive) To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
• v. (transitive) To incite to action; to motivate.

causation

• n. The act of causing.
• n. The act or agency by which an effect is produced.
• n. Cause and effect; causality.

causing

• v. present participle of cause.

device

• n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
• n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
• n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
• n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb.
• n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience;…
• n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs…
• n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
• n. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
• n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
• n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
• n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

induction

• n. An act of inducting.
• n. An act of inducing.
• n. (medicine) The process of inducing the birth process.
• n. (obsolete) An introduction.

initiate

• adj. (obsolete) Unpractised; untried; new.
• adj. (obsolete) Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.
• n. A new member of an organization.
• n. One who has been through a ceremony of initiation.
• v. (transitive) To begin; to start.
• v. To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
• v. To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
• v. (intransitive) To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.

initiation

• n. The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced.
• n. The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized…
• n. (chemistry) The first step of transcription or of transduction.

lever

• n. (obsolete, except in generalized senses below) A crowbar.
• n. (mechanics) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which…
• n. A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button).
• n. (mechanics) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
• n. (mechanics) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
• v. (transitive) To move with a lever.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically).
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To use (something) like a lever (in an abstract sense).
• v. (chiefly Britain, finance) To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
• adv. (obsolete) Rather.
• n. (rare) A levee.

pioneer

• n. One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
• n. A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.
• n. (obsolete, military) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as…
• n. A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
• n. (communism) A child of 10–16 years in the former Soviet Union, in the second of the three stages in becoming…
• v. To go before and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.

spark

• n. A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire.
• n. A short or small burst of electrical discharge.
• n. A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle.
• n. (figuratively) A small amount of something, such as an idea, that has the potential to become something…
• n. (in plural sparks but treated as a singular) A ship's radio operator.
• n. (Britain, slang) An electrician.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To trigger, kindle into activity (an argument, etc).
• v. (transitive) To light; to kindle.
• v. (intransitive) To give off a spark or sparks.
• n. A gallant, a foppish young man.
• n. A beau, lover.
• v. To woo, court.

trip

• n. A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
• n. A stumble or misstep.
• n. (figuratively) An error; a failure; a mistake.
• n. A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
• n. A faux pas, a social error.
• n. Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
• n. (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
• n. (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
• n. A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
• n. (obsolete) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
• n. The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
• n. (nautical) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, Scotland, dialect) A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
• n. (obsolete) A troop of men; a host.
• n. A flock of wigeons.
• v. (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot.
• v. (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble.
• v. (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety,…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
• v. (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
• v. (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event.
• v. (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
• v. (intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
• v. (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
• v. (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
• adj. (poker slang) Of or relating to trips.