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Toggle   /tˈɑgəl/   Listen
Toggle

noun
(Written also toggel)
1.
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.
2.
A hinged switch that can assume either of two positions.  Synonyms: on-off switch, on/off switch, toggle switch.
3.
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).
verb
1.
Provide with a toggle or toggles.
2.
Fasten with, or as if with, a toggle.
3.
Release by a toggle switch.



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"Toggle" Quotes from Famous Books



... the large bull came up again for breath, with both lines still fast to him; the one in the regular way, or attached to the harpoon, and the other jammed in the jaws of the animal by means of the harpoon and staff, which formed a sort of toggle at the angle of his enormous mouth. In consequence of feeling this unusual tenant, the fish compressed its jaws together, thus rendering the fastening so much the more secure. As both boats had let run line freely while the whale was sounding, they now found themselves near a quarter ...
— The Sea Lions - The Lost Sealers • James Fenimore Cooper
... came within the desired range, unobserved by the cruiser, which was lowering her boats to go to the help of the others. Captain Nicholson stood with his hand on the toggle of the firing valve, reading ...
— The Boy Allies Under Two Flags • Ensign Robert L. Drake
... desk, clicked the transmitter and receiver switches on and off, moved a rheostat or two. He reached up to a wall toggle, turned a small air-circulating fan on and off. "Everything else seems to ...
— Breaking Point • James E. Gunn
... the cabin. The hydroplanes were really water-tight hollow boxes, large and buoyant enough to sustain the airship on the surface of the water. They could be lowered to a point where they were beneath the bicycle wheels, and were fitted with toggle-jointed springs to take up ...
— Dick Hamilton's Airship - or, A Young Millionaire in the Clouds • Howard R. Garis
... of hewn Sarsen stones with "imposts" or lintels mortised to them. The lintels are fitted together with toggle joints. Sixteen out of the original thirty uprights of these "Trilithons" ...
— Stonehenge - Today and Yesterday • Frank Stevens
... interesting point with him; and he saw that it was provided with a hasp and staple, so that the entrance could be secured by a padlock, though that was missing. Getting a piece of wood from the deck, he made a toggle that would fit the staple, and put the scuttle in a convenient place. Leaving the forward deck, he went aft, taking another look at the steamer in the north-west; but he could hardly see her with the naked eye, and he thought she must be at ...
— Taken by the Enemy • Oliver Optic


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