Switch

[swɪtʃ]

Definition

(noun.) the act of changing one thing or position for another; 'his switch on abortion cost him the election'.

(noun.) a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other.

(noun.) a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment.

(noun.) control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit.

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

(noun.) hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure.

(verb.) make a shift in or exchange of; 'First Joe led; then we switched'.

(verb.) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; 'switch to a different brand of beer'; 'She switched psychiatrists'; 'The car changed lanes'.

(verb.) flog with or as if with a flexible rod.

Typist: Nora--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A small, flexible twig or rod.

(n.) A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.

(n.) A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.

(n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.

(v. t.) To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.

(v. t.) To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.

(v. t.) To trim, as, a hedge.

(v. t.) To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.

(v. t.) To shift to another circuit.

(v. i.) To walk with a jerk.

Inputed by Boris

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Rod, twig, stick, birch.

v. a. Beat, whip, SWINGE.

Checker: Mandy

Definition

n. a small flexible twig: a movable rail for transferring a carriage from one line of rails to another: a device to make or break a circuit or transfer an electric current from one conductor to another.—v.t. to strike with a switch: to swing whisk: to transfer a carriage from one line of rails to another by a switch: to shift from one circuit to another or in or out of circuit as an electric current to shunt.—ns. Switch′back a term applied to a zigzagging alternate back-and-forward mode of progression up a slope; Switch′back-rail′way an apparatus for public amusement consisting of a short length of elevated railway with a series of rounded inclines so that the car gains enough of momentum descending the first steep incline to ascend one or more smaller inclines till it gradually and more slowly works its way to the original level at the far end of the course; Switch′ing a beating with a switch: trimming; Switch′man a pointsman.

Inputed by Gretchen