switch
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Perhaps from Middle Dutch swijch (“twig”), first attested in c. 1592. The mechanical device for altering the direction of something sense is first attested in c. 1797, pertaining to pivoted rails on minecart railways, which were once wooden.
Inflected forms:
form: switches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: switches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: switching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: switched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: switched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
pos: noun
gloss: A change or exchange.
pos: noun
examples: After many complications and sudden switches of career and identity for all […] they end up selling out for fame and money, and leave the boardwalk for good.
Wenger sent on Cesc Fabregas and Van Persie to try to finish Leeds off and with 14 minutes left the switch paid off as the Spaniard sent Bendtner away down the right and his wonderful curling cross was headed in by Van Persie at the far post.
This is a result of a switch from High Street to online retailing, requiring consumer goods to be delivered to the door from large-scale distribution parks that have sufficient traffic to justify a rail terminal.
gloss: A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
US
gloss: A long, slender woody plant stem or a flexible, thin rod used as a whip to administer corporal punishment in the United States.
pos: noun
examples: Their mother would walk out into the yard and cut a switch from a tree and beat him—beat him, it seemed to Florence, until any other boy would have fallen down dead; […]
"A proper switch is a slim, flexible branch off a tree or a bush. A switch applied to the buttocks stings fiercely. It may leave red marks or bruises, but it causes no lasting damage.."
gloss: Synonym of rute.
pos: noun
gloss: A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
pos: noun
examples: Use the /b switch to specify black-and-white printing.
gloss: A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
pos: noun
gloss: A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
pos: noun
gloss: A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
pos: noun
gloss: A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
pos: noun
gloss: One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
pos: noun
tags: especially
examples: Ideally, if one of your ladies happens to be a switch (or would be willing to switch for this scene), I would love to be able to inflict a little "revenge tickling" as well, as part of a scenario.
gloss: A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of Glock switch.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Synonym of Glock switch.
pos: noun
tags: metonymically
slang
examples: The way that switch brrt, I know he dyin' (Oh my, oh my God). 6-7, I just bipped right on the highway (Bip, bip).
gloss: A play in which the ball (or equivalent) is moved from one side of the playing area to the other.
pos: noun
examples: Once a sign of surrender and lead protection, the backwards kick plays a role in one of the most enterprising, enjoyable phases of the modern game: the switch. In an era where zones, presses, zone-presses and floods are ever present, the switch breaks through these tactical innovations like a hot knife through butter.
gloss: The process of the currently fronting headmate changing; an instance of this.
pos: noun
examples: Switches only happen once every couple weeks for us, but they're quite sudden when they happen.
gloss: To exchange.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
I want to switch this red dress for a green one.
gloss: To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Switch the light on.
gloss: To whip or hit with a switch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They were looking on the ground, absorbed in thought. The manager was switching his leg with a slender twig: his sagacious relative lifted his head.
gloss: To change places, tasks, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I want to switch to a different seat.
gloss: To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
gloss: To swing or whisk.
pos: verb
examples: to switch a cane
gloss: To be swung or whisked.
pos: verb
examples: The angry cat's tail switched back and forth.
gloss: To trim.
pos: verb
examples: Switch and clip thorn and other deciduous hedges.
gloss: To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
pos: verb
examples: to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another
There was also public praise in the days that followed for the train's driver, Andrew Johnson. It took a cool head to co-ordinate with the signaller at York ROC to have the train switched from fast to slow line, to permit the stop in Huntingdon station.
gloss: To shift to another circuit.
pos: verb
gloss: To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Feel free to ask her to follow, lead, or switch!
gloss: To move (the ball or equivalent) from one side of the playing area to the other.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After they switched the ball across their back half, Hurley found the hard-running Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti, who in turn hit up Stewart. Then the big man produced a moment of inspiration, taking on his defender before chipping the ball to Daniher, who goaled.
gloss: Pertaining to riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to skiing backwards.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: swap
commute
counterchange
exchange
replace
shift
substitute
switch
transpose
Antonyms: abide
endure
last
remain
stay
Related words: reciprocate
switch off
switch on
Derived words: antenna switch
antiswitch
arrow switch
asleep at the switch
bait and switch
bait-and-switch
baroswitch
big red switch
big switch
bitch switch
blab-off switch
chicken switch
circuit switched
core switch
crossbar switch
dead man's switch
dimmer switch
dipswitch
DIP switch
double switch
footswitch
Glock switch
hat switch
hookswitch
hook switch
hot switch
intermediate switch
jackknife switch
keyswitch
mercury switch
microswitch
multiway switching
nanoswitch
nonswitch
on-off switch
optical switch
phosphoswitch
photoswitch
pickle switch
polyswitch
public switched
Q-switch
railroad switch
replacing switch
RF switch matrix
sleeping at the switch
split switch
Strowger switch
subswitch
switch access
switchback
switchblade
switchboard
switch box
switchbox
switch cane
switch dealing
switch engine
switcheroo
switchfoot
switchgear
switch gear
switchgirl
switchgrass
switch grass
switch hit
switch hitter
switchhook
switch hook
switch horn
switch keeper
switchless
switchlike
switchman
switchmode
switchology
switchout
switch pitcher
switch-plant
switchplate
switchport
switchroom
switch selling
switchtender
switch trading
switchy
switchyard
teleswitch
Texas switch
thermoswitch
toggle switch
trip switch
Turing switch
two-way switch
underload switch
wye switch
misswitch
autoswitch
code-switch
photoswitched
switchability
switchable
switch codes
switcher
switch gears
switch out
switchover
switch tack
switch teams
switch up
unswitched
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: камута́тар
roman: kamutátar
lang: Bulgarian
word: комута́тор
roman: komutátor
lang: Catalan
word: centraleta
lang: Finnish
word: puhelinkeskus
lang: Finnish
word: puhelinvaihde
lang: Finnish
word: vaihde
lang: Finnish
word: keskus
lang: French
word: commutateur
lang: Italian
word: centralino
lang: Macedonian
word: развод
roman: razvod
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sentral
lang: Polish
word: switch
lang: Portuguese
word: central telefónica
lang: Portuguese
word: central telefônica
lang: Romanian
word: centrală
lang: Romanian
word: comutator
lang: Romanian
word: selector
lang: Russian
word: коммута́тор
roman: kommutátor
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: скло̏пка
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sklȍpka
lang: Swedish
word: växel
lang: Ukrainian
word: комута́тор
roman: komutátor
lang: Uzbek
word: xivchin
lang: Vietnamese
word: chuyển mạch
lang: Welsh
word: switsh