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toggle

About 0.62 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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. noun A rod-shaped button bound with slack to the fabric.
  3. noun A toggle switch.
  4. noun An appliance for transmitting force at right angles to its direction.
  5. 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.
  6. noun 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. noun 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.
  8. verb To alternate between two positions using a single switch or lever.
    Clicking a button will alternately toggle its light on OR off.

Similar words

on-off switch toggle switch lever cycle switch button switching rotate rotation flip

Often followed by

switch the between switches button to on buttons is

Word family

toggled toggles toggling

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