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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
tog·gle 
[tog-uhl] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -gled, -gling.
[tog-uhl] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -gled, -gling. –noun
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | a pin, bolt, or rod placed transversely through a chain, an eye or loop in a rope, etc., as to bind it temporarily to another chain or rope similarly treated. |
| 2. | a toggle joint, or a device having one. |
| 3. | an ornamental, rod-shaped button for inserting into a large buttonhole, loop, or frog, used esp. on sports clothes. |
| 4. | Theater.
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| 5. | to furnish with a toggle. |
| 6. | to bind or fasten with a toggle. |
| 7. | Informal. to turn, twist, or manipulate a toggle switch; dial or turn the switch of (an appliance): He toggled the TV between the baseball game and the news. |
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| tog·gle
(tŏg'əl) Pronunciation Key
n.
v. tog·gled, tog·gling, tog·gles v. tr. To furnish or fasten with a toggle. v. intr. To alternate between two or more electronic, mechanical, or computer-related options, usually by the operation of a single switch or keystroke: toggled back and forth between two windows on the screen. [Origin unknown.] |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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toggle
1769, "short pin passed through the eye of a rope," a nautical word of uncertain origin, perhaps a frequentative form of tog "tug." Meaning "a kind of wall fastener" is recorded from 1934. Toggle bolt is from 1794; toggle switch first attested 1938.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| toggle | |
noun | |
| 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 [syn: 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; "toggle a bomb from an airplane" |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This
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To change a bit from whatever state it is in to the other state; to change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1. This comes from "toggle switches", such as standard light switches, though the word "toggle" actually refers to the mechanism that keeps the switch in the position to which it is flipped rather than to the fact that the switch has two positions. There are four things you can do to a bit: set it (force it to be 1), clear (or zero) it, leave it alone, or toggle it.
[The Jargon File]
(1994-12-12)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
Jargon File - Cite This Source - Share This
1. This comes from `toggle switches', such as standard light switches, though the word `toggle' actually refers to the mechanism that keeps the switch in the position to which it is flipped rather than to the fact that the switch has two positions. There are four things you can do to a bit: set it (force it to be 1), clear (or zero) it, leave it alone, or toggle it. (Mathematically, one would say that there are four distinct boolean-valued functions of one boolean argument, but saying that is much less fun than talking about toggling bits.)
toggle
vt. To change a bit from whatever state it is in to the other state; to change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to1. This comes from `toggle switches', such as standard light switches, though the word `toggle' actually refers to the mechanism that keeps the switch in the position to which it is flipped rather than to the fact that the switch has two positions. There are four things you can do to a bit: set it (force it to be 1), clear (or zero) it, leave it alone, or toggle it. (Mathematically, one would say that there are four distinct boolean-valued functions of one boolean argument, but saying that is much less fun than talking about toggling bits.)
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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Tog"gle\, n. [Cf. Tug.] [Written also toggel.]1. (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. 2. (Mach.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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