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switch
English
Etymology
Perhaps from Middle Dutch swijch (“twig”). First known use in c. 1592.
Pronunciation
- enPR: sw?ch, IPA(key): /sw?t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Noun
switch (plural switches)
- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- A change or exchange.
- (rail transport, US) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in the United States.
- 2007, Jeffrey W. Hamilton, Raising Godly Children in a Wicked World, Lulu.com, page 15:
- "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.."
- 2007, Jeffrey W. Hamilton, Raising Godly Children in a Wicked World, Lulu.com, page 15:
- (music) Synonym of rute.
- (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- Use the /b switch to specify black-and-white printing.
- (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
- 2004, "Curt", Can I use IF statements, and still use switches? (on newsgroup microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields)
- (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.
- (telecommunications) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
- (genetics) A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
- (BDSM) One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
- 2012, Terri-Jean Bedford, Bondage Bungalow Fantasies (page 99)
- Ideally, if one of your ladies happens to be a switch (or would be willing to switch for this scene), I would love to be able to inflict a little "revenge tickling" as well, as part of a scenario.
- 2012, Terri-Jean Bedford, Bondage Bungalow Fantasies (page 99)
- (historical) A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
Synonyms
- (section of railroad track): (UK) points
- (whip): crop
- (command-line notation): flag, option, specifier
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
switch (third-person singular simple present switches, present participle switching, simple past and past participle switched)
- (transitive) To exchange.
- (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- (transitive, in modern times Southern US) To whip or hit with a switch.
- (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
- (slang, intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To swing or whisk.
- to switch a cane
- To be swung or whisked.
- The angry cat's tail switched back and forth.
- To trim.
- to switch a hedge
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
- to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another
- (ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
Synonyms
- (to exchange): interchange, swap; See also Thesaurus:switch
Translations
Adjective
switch (not comparable)
- (snowboarding) Pertaining to riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.
- (freestyle skiing) Pertaining to skiing backwards.
Coordinate terms
(snowboarding):
- goofy
- regular
Translations
See also
- switch off
- switch on
References
Further reading
- switch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- switch (corporal punishment) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Finnish
Noun
switch
- (BDSM) switch
Declension
French
Etymology
English switch
Adjective
switch
- (skiing, snowboarding) switch.
Portuguese
Etymology
From English switch.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?swit??/
Noun
switch m (plural switches or switch)
- (networking) switch (device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously)
- (computing) switch (command line notation allowing specification of optional behaviour)
- (programming) switch (construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression)
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conversion
English
Etymology
From Middle English conversion, conversioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conversion, from Latin conversi?, from convert?.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /k?n?v???(?)n/, /-?(?)n/
- (US) enPR: k?n-vûr?zh?n, IPA(key): /k?n?v???n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)??n, -??(?)??n
- Hyphenation: con?ver?sion
Noun
conversion (countable and uncountable, plural conversions)
- The act of converting something or someone.
- (computing) A software product converted from one platform to another.
- 1988, Crash (issue 59, December 1988)
- Mike Follin […] also programmed the Spectrum version of The Sentinel (97%, Issue 40), and the excellent coin-op conversions Bubble Bobble (90%, Issue 45) and Bionic Commando (92%, Issue 53).
- 1988, Crash (issue 59, December 1988)
- (chemistry) A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
- (rugby) A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
- (American football) An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.
- (marketing) An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
- (law) Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.
- Or bring my action of conversion / And trover for my goods.
- (linguistics) The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.
- Hyponyms: anthimeria, shift, shifting
- (obsolete) The act of turning round; revolution; rotation.
- (logic) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
- (mathematics) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.
Antonyms
- deconversion
Hyponyms
- type conversion
Derived terms
Related terms
- convert
Translations
See also
- penalty
French
Etymology
From Latin conversi?, from convert?.
Pronunciation
Noun
conversion f (plural conversions)
- conversion
Related terms
- convertir
Further reading
- “conversion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- convierons
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