Begin and Trigger

noun

• Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel. negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992))
  • synonyms: Menachem Begin

verb

• Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action.
  • usage: "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now"
  • synonyms: get down, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence
• Have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense.
  • usage: "The DMZ begins right over the hill"; "The second movement begins after the Allegro"; "Prices for these homes start at $250, 000"
  • synonyms: start
• Set in motion, cause to start.
  • usage: "The U. S. Started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life"
  • synonyms: lead off, start, commence
• Begin to speak or say. "Now listen, friends" he began
• Be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series.
  • usage: "The number `one' begins the sequence"; "A terrible murder begins the novel"; "The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester"
• Have a beginning, of a temporal event.
  • usage: "WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland"; "The company's Asia tour begins next month"
• Have a beginning characterized in some specified way.
  • usage: "The novel begins with a murder"; "My property begins with the three maple trees"; "Her day begins with a workout"; "The semester begins with a convocation ceremony"
  • synonyms: start
• Begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object.
  • usage: "begin a cigar"; "She started the soup while it was still hot"; "We started physics in 10th grade"
  • synonyms: start
• Achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative.
  • usage: "This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation"; "You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war"
• Begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language.
  • usage: "She began Russian at an early age"; "We started French in fourth grade"

• (v.t.) To enter on; to commence.
• (v.t.) To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of.
• (v.i.) To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being or course of action; to take the first step; to start.
• (v.i.) To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
• (n.) Beginning.

noun

• Lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun.
  • synonyms: gun trigger
• A device that activates or releases or causes something to happen.
• An act that sets in motion some course of events.
  • synonyms: induction, initiation

verb

• Put in motion or move to act.
  • usage: "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"
  • synonyms: trip, actuate, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off
• Release or pull the trigger on.
  • usage: "Trigger a gun"

adjective

• Neat and smart in appearance.
  • usage: "a clean-cut and well-bred young man"; "the trig corporal in his jaunty cap"; "a trim beard"
  • synonyms: clean-cut, trig, trim

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.

Trigger is a point, threshold, or event which precipitates an action, exercise, or change in behavior. The occurrence is often viewed as the catalyst of an important condition.