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Switch

noun

1.

Control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit. Synonyms: electric switch, electrical switch.

2.

An event in which one thing is substituted for another. Synonyms: permutation, replacement, substitution, transposition.

3.

Hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure.

4.

Railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock.

5.

A flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment.

6.

A basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other.

7.

The act of changing one thing or position for another. Synonyms: shift, switching.

verb

(past & past part. switched; pres. part. switching)

1.

Change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence. Synonyms: exchange, switch over.

2.

Exchange or give (something) in exchange for. Synonyms: swap, swop, trade.

3.

Lay aside, abandon, or leave for another. Synonyms: change, shift. "She switched psychiatrists" , "The car changed lanes"

4.

Make a shift in or exchange of. Synonyms: change over, shift.

5.

Cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation. Synonyms: flip, throw. "Throw the lever"

6.

Flog with or as if with a flexible rod.

7.

Reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action). Synonyms: alternate, flip, flip-flop, interchange, tack.

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"Switch" Quotes from Famous Books

... be found in any sanitarium in the United States and, we believe, in the world. There are two forty-cell galvanic batteries with switch boards for controlling the voltage, or force, from the whole power to one-fortieth of this amount, at the will of the physician. Safe-guards in the shape of milli-ampere meters continually indicate to the operator the force of the current. There ...

— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... she sez. 'He swore he'd marry me inside of an hour. This man hyer—his brother—made out like he wuz a preacher an' married us. Tell my father that an' ask him to forgive me if he can.' That wuz all she said. Ranse Roush hit her horse with a switch an' sez, 'Yo' kin tell him all that yore own self soon as you git home.' I reckon I wuz the lastest person ...

— A Man Four-Square • William MacLeod Raine

... hull of the MR4. Its outer hull was almost at the boiling point. Inside, it was a burning, suffocating hell. Perhaps it was the heat that aroused Hal Burnett once again. Somehow he managed to stumble to the Tele-screen. With the last vestige of a waning strength, he managed to switch it on ...

— Rescue Squad • Thomas J. O'Hara

... however, to climb into the high wooden saddle, and Cuthbert tried several times in vain. Then he repeated in a sharp tone the words which he had heard the Arabs use to order their camels to kneel, striking the animal at the same moment behind the fore-legs with a small switch. The camel immediately obeyed the order to which he was accustomed, and knelt down, making, however, as he did so, the angry grumble which those creatures appear to consider it indispensable to raise when ordered to do anything. Fortunately this noise is so frequently made, and the camels ...

— Winning His Spurs - A Tale of the Crusades • George Alfred Henty

... Oh, you are reverencing him to-day; well, then bear in mind that probably about the same time tomorrow morning you will be gripping for the scruff of his neck, and when you grip him, grip him hard, it is no time for half-way measures. Never hit a boy at that age with a switch. If you do you are lost. Either don't hit ...

— Parent and Child Vol. III., Child Study and Training • Mosiah Hall

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