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Switch   /swɪtʃ/   Listen
noun
Switch  n.  
1.
A small, flexible twig or rod. "Mauritania, on the fifth medal, leads a horse with something like a thread; in her other hand she holds a switch."
2.
(Railways) A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.
3.
A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.
4.
(Elec.) A device for shifting an electric current to another circuit, or for making and breaking a circuit.
Safety switch (Railways), a form of switch contrived to prevent or lessen the danger of derailment of trains.
Switch back (Railways), an arrangement of tracks whereby elevations otherwise insurmountable are passed. The track ascends by a series of zigzags, the engine running alternately forward and back, until the summit is reached.
Switch board (Elec.), a collection of switches in one piece of apparatus, so arranged that a number of circuits may be connected or combined in any desired manner.
Switch grass. (Bot.) See under Grass.


verb
Switch  v. t.  (past & past part. switched; pres. part. switching)  
1.
To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.
2.
To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.
3.
To trim, as, a hedge. (Prov. Eng.)
4.
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.
5.
(Eccl.) To shift to another circuit.


Switch  v. i.  To walk with a jerk. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Switch" Quotes from Famous Books



... that his muscles seem taut, avoid forcing the idea you want him to accept, for his mind is opposing it strongly just then. Perhaps he has a persistent thought of his own, at variance with yours. Either give him a chance to express his idea in words, so you can dispose of it, or switch him away from it by changing the trend of the conversation. When you perceive that his muscles are normally relaxed, you may safely return to the postponed point. You will encounter lessened mental resistance. Very likely ...
— Certain Success • Norval A. Hawkins
... the greatest precautions for the safety of their trains in the mountain sections. Besides the usual working gangs, there are special track-walkers, and 'safety switch-openers,' who lead solitary lives in the ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various
... got to give old S.F. credit for one thing. Did you see the way he tried to switch the laugh over on to us, and me with his trusty check right here in my hand? I never would have thought it, but he is certainly one awful ...
— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson
... to talk to me in this fashion!" roared the former teacher. "I'll teach you a lesson! Just wait till I find a good switch!" ...
— The Rover Boys In The Mountains • Arthur M. Winfield
... maids then crowded about them and said: "Punica is so young and inexperienced! You must not bear her any ill-will! To-morrow she shall go to you switch in ...
— The Chinese Fairy Book • Various


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