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Toggle vs Click - What's the difference?

toggle | click |

As nouns the difference between toggle and click

is that toggle is 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 while click is a brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock or a latch, or a finger pressed against the thumb and then released to strike the hand.

As verbs the difference between toggle and click

is that toggle is to alternate between two positions using a single switch or lever while click is to cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.

As an interjection click is

the sound of a click.

toggle

English

Noun

(en 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.
  • (in particular, fashion) A rod-shaped button bound with slack to the fabric.
  • A toggle switch.
  • (Scouting) A circle of leather, plastic (Cub Scouts) etc, resembling a napkin holder to keep the neckerchief in place.
  • 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.
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (scouting) woggle

    Derived terms

    * toggle bolt * toggle iron * toggle joint * toggle switch

    Coordinate terms

    *

    Verb

    (toggl)
  • to alternate between two positions using a single switch or lever.
  • Clicking a button will alternately toggle its light on OR off.
  • to switch between alternate states.
  • toggle to lower/upper case
    You can quickly toggle the case of selected text by pressing Shift+C

    Derived terms

    * togglable, toggleable

    References

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    Anagrams

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    click

    English

    (wikipedia click)

    Etymology 1

    Imitative of the "click" sound; first recorded in the 1500s.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock or a latch, or a finger pressed against the thumb and then released to strike the hand.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
  • There was a click in the front sitting-room. Mr. Pearce had extinguished the lamp.
  • (phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
  • Sound made by a dolphin.
  • The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
  • The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse.
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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
  • * Ben Jonson
  • [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs.
  • * Thackeray
  • She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash.
  • * Tennyson
  • when merry milkmaids click the latch
  • (direct and indirect) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
  • To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
  • (advertising) To visit a web site.
  • Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com
  • To emit a click.
  • He bent his fingers back until the joints clicked .
  • To click the left button of a computer mouse while pointing.
  • Click here to go to the next page.
  • To make sense suddenly.
  • Then it clicked - I had been going the wrong way all that time.
  • To get on well.
  • When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since.
  • (dated) To tick.
  • * Goldsmith
  • The varnished clock that clicked behind the door.

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • The sound of a click.
  • Click! The door opened.

    Derived terms

    * click one's fingers * double-click * point-and-click * right-click

    See also

    * ejective * tsk, tsk tsk

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Etymology 3

    Compare (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
  • (UK, dialect) The latch of a door.
  • Etymology 4

    (etyl) kleken? clichen? Compare clutch.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To snatch.
  • (Halliwell)
    English intransitive verbs English transitive verbs

    Etymology 5

    Noun

    (en noun)
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  • Verb

    (en verb)
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