toggle
(noun) a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable)
toggle
(noun) any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time
toggle
(verb) release by a toggle switch; “toggle a bomb from an airplane”
toggle
(verb) fasten with, or as if with, a toggle
toggle
(verb) provide with a toggle or toggles
Source: WordNet® 3.1
toggle (plural toggles)
(nautical) A wooden or metal pin, short rod, crosspiece or similar, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope or chain to be secured to any other loop, ring, or bight, e.g. a sea painter to a lifeboat.
(in particular, fashion) A rod-shaped button bound with slack to the fabric.
A toggle switch.
An appliance for transmitting force at right angles to its direction.
A horizontal piece of wood that is placed on a door, flat, or other wooden structure, but is not on one of the edges of the structure.
(skydiving) A loop of webbing or a dowel affixed to the end of the steering/brake lines of a parachute providing the pilot with a means of control.
• frog
toggle (third-person singular simple present toggles, present participle toggling, simple past and past participle toggled)
To alternate between two positions using a single switch or lever.
To switch between alternate states.
(nautical, transitive) To fix like a toggle iron; to fix fast.
• goglet
Source: Wiktionary
Tog"gle, n. Etym: [Cf. Tug.] [Written also toggel.]
1. (Naut.)
Definition: A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.
2. (Mach.)
Definition: Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint. Toggle iron, a harpoon with a pivoted crosspiece in a mortise near the point to prevent it from being drawn out when a whale, shark, or other animal, is harpooned.
– Toggle joint, an elbow or knee joint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line, and made to produce great endwise pressure, when any force is applied to bring them into this position.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
