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Switchable and 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.
  • A hinged switch that can assume either of two positions.
  • 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

  • Provide with a toggle or toggles.
  • Fasten with, or as if with, a toggle.
  • Release by a toggle switch.
    • usage: "toggle a bomb from an airplane"
  • (n.) Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint.
  • (n.) 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.