switch
IPA: swˈɪtʃ
noun
- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- A change or exchange.
- (rail transport, US) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in the United States.
- (music) Synonym of rute.
- (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
- (computing, networking) 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.
- (telecommunications) 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.
- (genetics) A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
- (BDSM) One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
- (historical) 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.
- (card games) A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
- (video games) Ellipsis of Nintendo Switch.
verb
- (transitive) To exchange.
- (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- (transitive, in modern times Southern US) To whip or hit with a switch.
- (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
- (slang, intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To swing or whisk.
- To be swung or whisked.
- To trim.
- To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
- (ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
- (intransitive) To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
adjective
- (snowboarding) Pertaining to riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.
- (freestyle skiing) Pertaining to skiing backwards.
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Examples of "switch" in Sentences
- Biochemical switches in the cell cycle.
- The classes switch for the second semester.
- The colors of the shirt and pants are switched.
- He is flighty and switches interests regularly.
- The vertical position of the switch is adjustable.
- A controllable switch is coupled to the inductance.
- The switches operate at incommensurate frequencies.
- It was then switched to a semiannual release schedule.
- It is the result of the resistance of the switch as it opens.
- Calculate the probability of winning with the switch strategy.
- As for the title switch to TRZ, I have two opinions that interlock.
- I hoped she could get used to the name switch for we intended to call her Michelle.
- Because of this, the organization erased this piece of history, pretending that the title switch never took place.
- The newspaper announced Tuesday it will become the Tampa Bay Times on... rajunarisetti Quite a name switch for an iconic newspaper.
- The name switch represents the first major change among NBCUniversal's smaller "emerging networks" following its merger with Comcast earlier this year.
- I did see Mike's news posting that Albright may have suffered an arm injury that led to the title switch, but I guess we'll hear more about that if there's anything to it.
- Then I was trying to figure out if they were not going to do the title switch, how would Big Show get involved to keep Edge with the title and then see Show get placed into a Triple Threat Match at Wrestlemania for the title.
- Along with the label switch-up, Yesterday & Today very Field-looking album art and what appears to be a cover of "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime," the 1980 track by British pop outfit Battles John Stanier is still lending his furious, drum-beating hands to the record's title track.
- The channelrhodopsin switch is “really going to blow the lid off the whole analysis of brain function,” said George Augustine, a neurobiologist at Duke University in Durham, N.C. Dr. Deisseroth, who is also a psychiatrist who treats patients with autism or severe depression, has ambitious goals.
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