Switch

Quick meaning: Switch is a noun meaning A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.

Meaning

A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.

More Meanings

1. A change or exchange.
2. A long, slender woody plant stem or a flexible, thin rod used as a whip to administer corporal punishment in the United States.
3. (music) Synonym of rute.
4. (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
5. (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
6. (rail transport, US, Philippines) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

Use the /b switch to specify black-and-white printing.

After many complications and sudden switches of career and identity for all […] they end up selling out for fame and money, and leave the boardwalk for good.

Their mother would walk out into the yard and cut a switch from a tree and beat him—beat him, it seemed to Florence, until any other boy would have fallen down dead; […]

"A proper switch is a slim, flexible branch off a tree or a bush. A switch applied to the buttocks stings fiercely. It may leave red marks or bruises, but it causes no lasting damage.."

Word Forms

• switches
• switching
• switched

Synonyms for switch

Depending on context, synonyms include points, crop, flag, option, specifier, interchange.

Antonyms for switch

Common opposites include abide, endure, last, remain, stay.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transposition, change over, swop, permutation, turn around, interchange.

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