Associations to the word «Toggle»

TOGGLE, noun. (nautical) 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.

TOGGLE, noun. (in particular) (fashion) A rod-shaped button bound with slack to the fabric.

TOGGLE, noun. A toggle switch.

TOGGLE, noun. (Scouting) A circle of leather, plastic (Cub Scouts) etc, resembling a napkin holder to keep the neckerchief in place.

TOGGLE, noun. 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.

TOGGLE, noun. (skydiving) 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.

TOGGLE, verb. To alternate between two positions using a single switch or lever.

TOGGLE, verb. To switch between alternate states.

TOGGLE BOLT, noun. A fastening device consisting of a bolt and a pair of hinged, usually sprung, wings threaded at the hinge to receive the bolt, used by inserting the bolt with wings folded into a small hole in a sheet material to the point where the wings unfold and the bolt can be tightened.

TOGGLE IRON, noun. A harpoon with one or more pivoted crosspieces in a mortise near the point to prevent it from being drawn out when a whale, shark, or other animal, is harpooned.

TOGGLE JOINT, noun. A mechanical linkage of the type of 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 brought into this position.

TOGGLE JOINTS, noun. Plural of toggle joint

TOGGLE SWITCH, noun. A switch actuated by moving a small lever; usually an on/off switch with two positions.

TOGGLE SWITCHES, noun. Plural of toggle switch

TOGGLE, 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.

TOGGLE, noun. A hinged switch that can assume either of two positions.

TOGGLE, noun. 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).

TOGGLE, verb. Provide with a toggle or toggles.

TOGGLE, verb. Fasten with, or as if with, a toggle.

TOGGLE, verb. Release by a toggle switch; "toggle a bomb from an airplane".