toggle vs holdfast

holdfast vs toggle

toggle and holdfast both are nouns.

toggle is a verb but holdfast is not a verb.

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

As nouns, holdfast is a hypernym of toggle; that is, holdfast 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)
holdfast: restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place

Other hypernyms of toggle include fastener, fastening, fixing.

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

Difference between toggle and holdfast

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