Click vs. Toggle — What's the Difference?

A short, sharp sound as of a switch being operated or of two hard objects coming smartly into contact

A short rod of wood or plastic sewn to one side of a coat or other garment, pushed through a hole or loop on the other side and twisted so as to act as a fastener.

Make or cause to make a short, sharp sound as of a switch being operated or of two hard objects coming smartly into contact

A key or command that is operated the same way but with opposite effect on successive occasions.

Become suddenly clear or understandable

Switch from one effect, feature, or state to another by using a toggle

A brief, sharp sound

Provide or fasten with a toggle or toggles

A mechanical device, such as a pawl, that snaps into position.

A pin, rod, or crosspiece fitted or inserted into a loop in a rope, chain, or strap to prevent slipping, to tighten, or to hold an attached object.

An instance of pressing down and releasing a button on a mouse or other input device.

A device or an apparatus with a toggle joint.

An instance of selecting an item in a website or app by clicking or tapping on a mouse, touchscreen, or other input device.

To furnish or fasten with a toggle.

(Linguistics) Any of various implosive stops, such as that of English tsk, produced by raising the back of the tongue to make contact with the palate and simultaneously closing the lips or touching the teeth or alveolar ridge with the tip and sides of the tongue, and found as phonemic consonants especially in the languages of the Khoikhoi and the San, and in some Bantu languages. Also called suction stop. See Usage Note at !Kung.

To alternate between two or more electronic, mechanical, or computer-related options, usually by the operation of a single switch or keystroke

To produce a click or series of clicks.

(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.

To press and release a button on a mouse or other input device.

A rod-shaped button bound with slack to the fabric.

To select an item in a webpage or app by clicking or tapping a mouse, touchscreen, or other input device.

A toggle switch.

To have good social or working relations; hit it off

An appliance for transmitting force at right angles to its direction.

To become clear; fall into 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.

To be a great success

A fastener that has flaps that align vertically to penetrate a surface and then spread out to secure the fastener in position, e.g. a molly bolt.

To cause to click, as by striking together

(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.

To press down and release (a button on an input device)

To alternate between two positions using a single switch or lever.

To press down and release a button on (an input device)

To switch between alternate states.

To select (an item in a webpage or app) by clicking or tapping a mouse, touchscreen, or other input device

To fix like a toggle iron; to fix fast.

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.

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.

(British) The act of making a clicking sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and then releasing to strike the palm; a snap.

Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint.

(phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.

A toggle switch.

Sound made by a dolphin.

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.

The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.

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

(GUI) The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.

A hinged switch that can assume either of two positions

(by extension) A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.

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)

A pawl or similar catch.

Provide with a toggle or toggles

A knock or blow.

Fasten with, or as if with, a toggle

A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.

Release by a toggle switch;

A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.

The latch of a door.

(transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.

(intransitive) To emit a click.

(British) To snap the fingers.

(computing) 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.

To visit (a web site).

To navigate by clicking a mouse button.

(intransitive) To make sense suddenly.

(intransitive) To get along well.

To tick.

To take (a photograph) with a camera.

To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.

Of a film, to be successful at the box office.

(obsolete) To snatch.

(US) clique

The sound of a click.

To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.

To move with the sound of a click.

To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.

To snatch.

A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.

A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward.

A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.

The latch of a door.

A short light metallic sound

Depression of a button on a computer mouse;

A stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu)

A hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward

Move or strike with a noise;

Make a clicking or ticking sound;

Click repeatedly or uncontrollably;

Cause to make a snapping sound;

Produce a click;

Make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens

Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions;