SWITCH
Definition:
- [noun] control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
Synonyms: electric electrical
- [noun] an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
Synonyms: substitution, permutation, transposition, replacement
- [noun] hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
- [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] a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
- [noun] a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
- [noun] the act of changing one thing or position for another; "his switch on abortion cost him the election"
Synonyms: ing, shift
- [verb] change over, change around, or switch over
Synonyms: over, exchange
- [verb] exchange or give (something) in exchange for
Synonyms: trade, swap, swop
- [verb] lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes"
Synonyms: shift, change
- [verb] make a shift in or exchange of; "First Joe led; then we switched"
Synonyms: change over, shift
- [verb] cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation; "switch on the light"; "throw the lever"
Synonyms: throw, flip
- [verb] flog with or as if with a flexible rod
- [verb] reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
Synonyms: interchange, tack, alternate, flip, flip-flop
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Related Words:
- shift
- break
- surf, channel-surf
- leap, jump
- diphthongize, diphthongise
- cut
- break
- back
- veer
- switch on, turn on
- switch off, cut, turn off, turn out
- commutator
- cutout
- ignition switch
- push button, push, button
- selector, selector switch
- three-way switch, three-point switch
- time-switch
- toggle switch, toggle, on-off switch, on/off switch
- birch, birch rod
- cane
- ferule
- rattan, ratan
- switcheroo