Crossword clues for toggle
toggle
- Transverse pin
- Kind of switch
- Two-position switch
- Any instruction that works first one way and then the other
- A wooden peg or pin inserted into the eye at the end of rope in order to fasten it to something
- A hinged switch that can assume either of two positions
- It turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time
- Turn on and off
- Switch or bolt
- Kind of electric switch
- Switch between two positions, as leg got twisted
- Fastening peg
- Hinged switch
- Go back and forth
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Toggle \Tog"gle\, n. [Cf. Tug.] [Written also toggel.]
(Naut.) 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.
(Mach.) Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint.
A toggle switch.
Toggle \Tog"gle\, v. t. (Computer programming) To change the value of (a program variable) by activating a toggle switch; as, to toggle the view from character to graphic mode; to toggle the keyboard input from insert to overtype mode.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
1836, "make secure with a toggle," from toggle (n.). Meaning "alternate back and forth between opposite actions" is by 1982. Related: Toggled; toggling.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) 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. 2 (context in particular fashion English) A rod-shaped button bound with slack to the fabric. 3 A toggle switch. 4 (context Scouting English) A circle of leather, plastic (Cub Scouts) etc, resembling a napkin holder to keep the neckerchief in place. 5 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. 6 (context skydiving English) 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. vb. 1 to alternate between two positions using a single switch or lever. 2 to switch between alternate states.
WordNet
n. 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 [syn: toggle switch, on-off switch, on/off switch]
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)
v. provide with a toggle or toggles
fasten with, or as if with, a toggle
release by a toggle switch; "toggle a bomb from an airplane"
Wikipedia
Toggle may refer to:
- Toggle mechanism
- Toggle switch
- Toggling harpoon, an ancient weapon and tool used in whaling to impale a whale when thrown
- A type of textile closure, like an elongated button
- Toggle (Doonesbury character), a character in the comic strip Doonesbury
- Feature toggle, a technique in software development
- Cordlock toggle, for stopping a cord or drawstring.
- Toggle ropes, a piece of military equipment
- Toggle bolt, a type of fastener
Usage examples of "toggle".
The toggle must have been set for DNA mode, since the buttons were displaying the Neanderthal glyphs for adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine.
When Alameda toggled the switch, it was as if she had left, and he was alone again.
Quite as fascinating as the toggle box was a dark, slender, and by Betan law very illegal little needle gun.
Flack, flack, went the toggles as the stage-hands laced them over the wooden cleats.
She went on admiring and inspecting her machine, reminding Sam of a forgotten day when Jackman had been given a new car and spent hours in silent admiration of it, in fingering its toggles and switches, like a child with a new and complicated toy.
A hooded chair occupied the center of the room, and beside it was a chest-high lectern whose face displayed a number of toggles and knurled wheels.
It was a netsuke of the eighteenth century, carved by Masanao of Kyoto, a toggle once used by the Japanese to hold the partitioned box which contained personal possessions, the cord between box and toggle threaded behind the sash.
Toggling the pictures forward, he hooked a chair towards him with his foot and told Suttle to sit down.
Yen waved at the fighter out on the pad, who backed away, and put on ear protectors, then snapped the toggle for the electrical starting motor for number two turbine on the port-engine control-console and watched the engine tachometer as the turbine spun up to speed, the whining noise coming from over his left shoulder.
He had even found that blue toggle switch which had closed the Plattnerite circuit.
Air Force dreamed up for shutting your eyes, toggling the bombload, gaining height, and getting the hell out.
He turned the periscope back over to Brayton and picked up the microphone, hit a toggle switch and spoke, his voice that echoed back at him sounding like the voice of a giant bouncing off the ocean floor.
Their canopies filled with air, hands on their steering toggles, the jumpers descended at an initial rate of about eighteen feet per second, passing through a high layer of cirrocumulus clouds composed of supercooled water and ice.
At ten thousand RPM he snapped up the second toggle marked FUEL INJ, beginning the fuel injection to the combustors, then toggled in the IGNITION switch, lighting off the combustion cans.
The two fell into flowchart, Holmesian deduction, tapping panels, toggling switches, volleying terms, injecting patches, and cross-referencing their way through the massive metal-bound manual with masochistic relish.