Meaning

7 senses
  1. 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.

    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)

  2. A rod-shaped button bound with slack to the fabric.

  3. A toggle switch.

  4. An appliance for transmitting force at right angles to its direction.

  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. A fastener that has flaps that align vertically to penetrate a surface and then spread out to secure the fastener in position, e.g. a molly bolt.

  7. 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.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. You can toggle on the dark theme in the hamburger menu.

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  2. If you need more room on the screen, you can toggle the sidebar off.

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  3. While Ethan's Dad found the new camera pretty hard to turn on, Ethan knew how to easily toggle it on and off.

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Translations

4 languages

Origin

Of uncertain origin. Possible alteration of tug (“to pull”) + -le

Of uncertain origin. Possible alteration of tug (“to pull”) + -le

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Forms

plural: toggles
Singulartoggle
Pluraltoggles

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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