toggle
pronunciation
How to pronounce toggle in British English:
UK [ˈtɒgl]
How to pronounce toggle in American English:
US [ˈtɑgl]
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- 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
- a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions
- 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)
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- Verb:
- provide with a toggle or toggles
- fasten with, or as if with, a toggle
- release by a toggle switch
Word Origin
- toggle (n.)
- 1769, "pin passed through the eye of a rope, strap, or bolt to hold it in place," a nautical word of uncertain origin, perhaps a frequentative form of tog "tug." As a kind of wall fastener it is recorded from 1934. Toggle bolt is from 1794; toggle switch, the up-and-down sort, first attested 1938. In computing by 1979, in reference to a key which alternates the function between on and off when struck.
- toggle (v.)
- 1836, "make secure with a toggle," from toggle (n.). Meaning "alternate back and forth between opposite actions" is by 1982. Related: Toggled; toggling.
Example
- 1. You can create drilldown reports using visibility and toggle properties .
- 2. Methods indirect laryngoscopy , laryngeal polyps toggle clamp method to reset .
- 3. Provide with a toggle or toggles .
- 4. This is a toggle button .
- 5. If you prefer , you can toggle the command-line switch and leave most of these as methods .