trigging

"trigging" of boot-heels, while the wives, who mend all the small clothes, have long ago and by consent given up any pretence of harmonising the patch with the original garment.

Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Jeanne Moos looks at why the phrase is trigging -- triggering such strong reactions.

CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2009 2009

Tropical Storm Gustav torrential rains trigging serious flooding and landslides that have killed 11 people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2008 2008

Cold air would certainly warm out east and that has helped trigging some of those thunderstorms.

CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2008 2008

As the primaries continue, the media will continue feeding us more of the same: adrenaline trigging drama to keep us watching.

Mike Garibaldi-Frick: Make Up Your Own Mind 2008

Where the man could have disappeared to was a mystery on a road apparently without any offshoots, so we concluded he must have thought we contemplated doing him some bodily harm, and had either "bolted" or "clapp'd," as my brother described it, behind some rock or bush, in which case he must have felt relieved and perhaps amused when he heard us "trigging" past him on the road.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

Judging by the time it had taken the Navajos to bore a tunnel under their log and undermine the first trigging-stone, we estimated that two more hours must pass before the four obstructions we had placed in their way could be removed, unless they took some more speedy method.

Captured by the Navajos 1871

Two of the trigging-stones we had dropped were soon undermined and sunk, and the log had stopped at the third, less than a hundred yards away.

Captured by the Navajos 1871

Layout is a recursive process; trigging layout on an element will trigger layout for all the children of that element, and their children and so on.

WindowsClient.net Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280 2010

As we've seen here, trigging a layout pass can be an expensive operation, especially if done inside an animation.

WindowsClient.net Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280 2010