switch
/swɪt͡ʃ/ noun B1- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- A change or exchange.
- A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- A long, slender woody plant stem or a flexible, thin rod used as a whip to administer corporal punishment in the United States.
- Synonym of rute.
- A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior. · Use the /b switch to specify black-and-white printing.
- A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
- 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.
Plural switches
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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His whiskers cut off, Noirtier gave another turn to his hair; took, instead of his black cravat, a colored neckerchief which lay at the top of an open portmanteau; put on, in lieu of his blue and high-buttoned frock-coat, a coat of Villefort’s of dark brown, and cut away in front; tried on before the glass a narrow-brimmed hat of his son’s, which appeared to fit him perfectly, and, leaving his cane in the corner where he had deposited it, he took up a small bamboo switch, cut the air with it once or twice, and walked about with that easy swagger which was one of his principal characteristics.
But if you’ll take my advice--which I suppose you won’t do, although I’ve brought up ten children and buried two--you’ll do that ‘talking to’ you mention with a fair-sized birch switch.
The amiable suggestion of the birch switch--to the efficiency of which all of Mrs.
And most of the wolves began to gather round Shere Khan, whose tail was beginning to switch.
Other matches
- switch To exchange. B1
- switch Pertaining to riding with the front and back fe... C2
- switch off To stop or disable a device by turning a switch...
- switch on To start or enable a device by turning a switch...
- switch out To exchange or swap one
- switch up To change, usually in regards to how one feels,...
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