trigger
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To cause a process to happen or a mechanism to take place.
Attested in
No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.
Classifications
Cognitive
Apply72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Variants
- synonym
- trip
- pasttense
- triggered
- presentparticiple
- triggering
- thirdpersonsingular
- triggers
- pastparticiple
- triggered
Framework definitions
- §1
- To cause a process to happen or a mechanism to take place.
- §1
- release or pull the trigger on
- §2
- put in motion or move to act
- §1 · legacy_primary
- To cause a process to happen or a mechanism to take place.DR-088 backfill from the verb definition column
Outgoing relationships
- verbLevel
applylexicon:CognitiveLevel
Incoming relationships
No incoming triples
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