toggle vs fastener

fastener vs toggle

toggle and fastener both are nouns.

toggle is a verb but fastener is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
toggle	Yes	No	Yes	No
fastener	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, fastener is a hypernym of toggle; that is, fastener is a word with a broader meaning than toggle:

toggle: 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)
fastener: restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place

Other hypernyms of toggle include fastening, fixing, holdfast.

toggle (noun)	fastener (noun)
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)	restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions	a person who fastens or makes fast
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

toggle (verb)	fastener (verb)
fasten with, or as if with, a toggle
release by a toggle switch
provide with a toggle or toggles

Difference between toggle and fastener

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