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[Claire Huang]

Dear teacher:
When I read a article about Larry King,two words bump into my mind.I'd like to know the difference between "host" and "anchor".

And I want to check the meaning of "toggle".
I want to know whether the button on the screen is also called " toggle ".

Thanks a lot!!

Best wishes
Claire Huang

[pugachevV]

All these words are in your dictionary. Or you can find them at www.dictionary.com

[redset]

A host is the person who presents a TV show, a person who throws a party or who invites you to stay at their house. People are their guests.

An anchor is short for anchorman/anchorwoman and it's an American term for a newsreader - somebody who presents a news report on TV.

This is a toggle switch:

It lets you toggle between different settings, so you can select one of them. The idea is you can only select one setting. If you're asking about webpages, that's slightly tricky! Technically a group of options where you can only select one of them uses radio buttons, like the 'red/blue/green' example here:
http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/html_radio_button.cfm
However I think toggle in this case would mean something which is either on or off, like the bold (B) button in a word processor (or above the reply box if you're typing a reply on here ), or a checkbox (like the ones below the reply window).