tog

‖n.; pl. E. Togas L. Togae [ L., akin to tegere to cover. See Thatch. ] (Rom. Antiq.) The loose outer garment worn by the ancient Romans, consisting of a single broad piece of woolen cloth of a shape approaching a semicircle. It was of undyed wool, except the border of the toga praetexta. [ 1913 Webster ]

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Toga praetexta. [ L. ], a toga with a broad purple border, worn by children of both sexes, by magistrates, and by persons engaged in sacred rites. -- ‖
Toga virilis [ L. ], the manly gown; the common toga. This was assumed by Roman boys about the time of completing their fourteenth year. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. togatus, from toga a toga. ] Dressed in a toga or gown; wearing a gown; gowned. [ R. ] Sir M. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Togated. [ Obs. or R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ OE. togedere, togidere, AS. tōgædere, tōgædre, tōgadere; tō to + gador together. √29. See To, prep., and Gather. ] 1. In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. [ 1913 Webster ]

Soldiers can never stand idle long together. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In or into union; into junction; as, to sew, knit, or fasten two things together; to mix things together. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king joined humanity and policy together. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In concert; with mutual cooperation; as, the allies made war upon France together. [ 1913 Webster ]

Together with, in union with; in company or mixture with; along with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Take the bad together with the good. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Togated. ] Clothes; garments; dress; as, fishing toggery. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Computer programming) To change the value of (a program variable) by activating a toggle switch; as, to toggle the view from character to graphic mode; to toggle the keyboard input from insert to overtype mode. [ PJC ]

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.

n. [ Cf. Tug. ] [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mach.) Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A toggle switch. [ PJC ]

n. 1. (Elec.) an electrical switch operated by pushing a lever through a small angle of deflection. The lever has a spring which returns it to its original position after the pressure applied by the operator is released. [ PJC ]

2. (Computer programming) A mechanism for acquiring input from an operator, such that taking some action (such as pressing a function key on a keyboard) will cause a program variable to take a new value. The values are usually changed in cyclic fashion, so that a certain number of activations of the toggle returns the variable to its initial value. When there are two values to the variable, each activation of the toggle causes the variable to assume the alternate value. [ PJC ]

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