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  • noun Plural form of toggle.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of toggle.

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Examples

  • Leading the opposing side is Alison Reid, a friend from Sale, dangling sprightly toggles from the waist of her cardigan; then Edward Crooke of Holey Plain, Dale’s elder brother, holding on with some determination.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Large buttons of leather or bone were not nearly so popular as small, smooth lengths of stick engaging cross-wise with loops of cord -- known as toggles, which became quite a mania with some members of the Expedition.

    The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

  • Loose covenants and the use of payment-in-kind "toggles" exacerbate the problem.

    Debt Recovery Prospects Darken 2008

  • A button located in the centre of the ring "toggles" the ring between application-specific functions such as zoom, scroll, brush size adjustment or canvas rotation.

    Digital Photography Now 2010

  • A button located in the centre of the ring "toggles" the ring between application-specific functions such as zoom, scroll, brush size adjustment or canvas rotation.

    Digital Photography Now 2010

  • A button located in the centre of the ring 'toggles' between functions such as zoom, scroll, brush size adjustment, canvas rotation and layer selection.

    Digital Photography Now 2009

  • "toggles," to hold them off the bottom, so that they might not catch on the rocks.

    Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman

  • However, select basic superzooms and more and more advanced cameras, including the Samsung TL500 and Fujifilm FinePix HS10, appear to be adding knobs, toggles and buttons.

    Lots of new digital cameras added to Ratings 2010

  • A retro soundtrack which toggles between Adam Faith, Frank Sinatra and similar icons adds to the convivial atmosphere.

    Top 10 best budget restaurants in Cheltenham and Gloucester 2012

  • And during his 26 songs that came gushing in between, Drake showed precisely why he's emerged as the most seductive new voice in pop music -- a neophyte superstar who toggles between the pillowy and the petulant, rapping and singing with commensurate elegance.

    In Concert: Drake at DAR Constitution Hall Chris Richards 2010

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