TOGGLE

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


Etymology

Noun

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.

Coordinate terms

• frog

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• 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



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