toggle
/ˈtɒɡ(ə)l/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈtɒɡ(ə)l/
toggle
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
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- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Schwa vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
tog - gle -> toggle
Myanmar meaning
ကွင်း ၊ အပေါက်ထဲသို့ ကန့်လန့်တုံးကလေးထဲ့သည့် အင်္ကျီကြယ်သီးတစ်မျိုး။ ဆက်ကာဆက်ကာ ပြုလုပ်လျှင် လုပ်နည်းတူသောလည်း ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက် အကျိုးဖြစ်သည့် ခလုပ်။
Full entry
တိုက်ပုံကြယ်သီးကဲ့သို့ ကြိုးကွင်းနှင့် ဘူးလည်သီး ခတ်ထားသော သစ်သား၊ ပလတ်စတစ်စသည့် ကန့်လန့်တုံးတို့ဖြင့် စီမံထားသောကြယ်သီးတစ်မျိုး။
toggle2 /'tɒgl/ v (esp computing )
ကွန်ပျူတာတွင်ဆိုင်ရာ အထိန်း ခလုတ်ကိုနှိပ်၍ မိမိလိုရာ ပုံနှိပ်စာဟန်တစ်မျိုးမျိုးကို ရွေးချယ် အသုံးပြုသည်(သို့)လက်ရှိစာဟန်ကို စွန့်သည်။
❏ toggle switch n (လျှပ်စစ်) လွှဲခလုတ်။
More examples
- ‘He played with a tassel in each hand, sometimes nervously chewing the toggles.’
- ‘A drawstring at the waist, hood, or neck on clothing can catch in a small gap in playground equipment, a bus handrail, or on a bolt, and a drawstring with a large toggle or knot at the end is most likely to get caught.’
- ‘The netsuke with two openings for the string to pass, acted as a toggle to prevent the sagemono (everything hanging from the sash) from slipping down from the obi.’
- ‘They served as belt toggles to hold containers for tobacco, money and other objects that would be carried on the cloth belt or girdle, as the kimono had no pockets.’
- ‘At Hemp Knoll the bone toggle had been broken and subsequently decorated, suggesting a long history of use before being sewn onto the clothing or shroud of the deceased.’
- ‘Velcro, toggles, hidden buttons and magnets are the added details that set this season apart from the last.’
- ‘Bone and antler were used to make dress-pins, hair combs, needle-cases, handles for iron knives, awls and other domestic equipment.’
- ‘Just as the Japanese used netsuke toggles to fasten their kimonos, the Inuit hung theirs from hunting equipment to placate the animal spirits for past catches.’
- ‘But she was fastened into her duties like a toggle into a duffel coat.’
- ‘The Romans used buttons only as ornaments and even the ancient Chinese never progressed beyond the toggle and loop.’
- ‘She is wearing a silly hat with toggles on either side, and these dance and jiggle the more aggressive she becomes.’
- ‘Netsuke are toggles worn by Japanese men of the upper classes.’
- ‘It was fastened by a sash and personal items were carried in small containers known as inro, which hung from the sash, secured by toggles - netsuke.’
- ‘Duffle coat toggles used to be made from such nuts.’
- ‘Glaswegians everywhere were celebrating the arrival of the fine weather by undoing the top toggle on their duffel-coats.’
- ‘When Adam had received a cut, after being hit in the eye by a duffel coat toggle, action had been taken.’
- ‘Why don't you do the toggles up and keep us really warm?’
- ‘Repeat to add toggles to the remaining four patches with matching grainlines.’
- ‘Jenny points to the popularity of hoods, vests, trainers and toggles in today's fashions.’
- ‘This toggle holds the necklace together when it's passed through the clay loop.’
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