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Trigger
- noun - a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen
- an act that sets in motion some course of events
- lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun
- put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"
- release or pull the trigger on; "Trigger a gun"
Trilled
- verb - pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r'; "Some speakers trill their r's"
- sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below
- uttered with a trill; "she used rolling r's as in Spanish"
Trimmed
- verb - adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used
- balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces; "trim an airplane"
- be in equilibrium during a flight; "The airplane trimmed"
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
- cut closely; "trim my beard"
- cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
- decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- decorate, as with ornaments; "trim the christmas tree"; "trim a shop window"
- made neat and tidy by trimming; "his neatly trimmed hair"
- remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size; "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber"
Trimmer
- adjective - neat and smart in appearance; "a clean-cut and well-bred young man"; "the trig corporal in his jaunty cap"; "a trim beard"
- a machine that trims timber
- a person who adapts their views to the prevailing political trends for personal advancement.
- a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs; "untouched by the pruner's axe"
- capacitor having variable capacitance; used for making fine adjustments
- joist that receives the end of a header in floor or roof framing in order to leave an opening for a staircase or chimney etc.
- of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat"
- severely simple in line or design; "a neat tailored suit"; "tailored curtains"
- thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"
Trinket
- noun - bauble
- cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
Triodes
- noun - a thermionic vacuum tube having three electrodes; fluctuations of the charge on the grid control the flow from cathode to anode which makes amplification possible
Triolet
- - A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth.
Trioses
- noun - any monosaccharide sugar containing three atoms of carbon per molecule
Tripled
- verb - hit a three-base hit
- increase threefold; "Triple your income!"
Triples
- noun - a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base
- a quantity that is three times as great as another
- a set of three similar things considered as a unit
- hit a three-base hit
- increase threefold; "Triple your income!"