tog·gle /ˈtɑgəl/
 繩針,套索釘(vt.)拴牢


 toggle
 雙向( 開關 )


 toggle
 雙態觸變


 Tog·gle n.  [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.

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 toggle
      n 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, on-off switch, on/off 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)
      v 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"