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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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revolution
English
Etymology
From Middle English revolucion, borrowed from Old French revolucion, from Late Latin revol?ti?nem, accusative singular of revol?ti? (“the act of revolving; revolution”), from Latin revolv? (“roll back, revolve”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???v??l(j)u???n/
- Rhymes: -u???n
- Hyphenation: re?vo?lu?tion
Noun
revolution (countable and uncountable, plural revolutions)
- A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change.
- The removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.
- Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation.
- 1912, P. M. Heldt, The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction, Volume II: Transmission, Running Gear and Control, The Horseless Age Co. (1913), page 147:
- The ratio between the speeds of revolution of wheel and disc is substantially equal to the reciprocal of the ratio between the diameter of the wheel and the diameter of the mean contact circle on the disc.
- 1864, D. M. Warren, The Common-School Geography, Revised Edition, H. Cowperthwait & Co., page 6:
- The Earth has two motions: a daily revolution (or turning around) upon its axis, and a yearly course around the sun.
- 1878, George Fleming, A Text-Book of Veterinary Obstetrics, Baillière, Tindall, & Cox, page 123:
- Numerous cases are recorded which incontestibly prove that during pregnancy, the uterus perform a half or even a complete revolution, on itself, producing torsion of the cervix […]
- 1912, P. M. Heldt, The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction, Volume II: Transmission, Running Gear and Control, The Horseless Age Co. (1913), page 147:
- In the case of celestial bodies - the traversal of one body through an orbit around another body.
- A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.
- A round of periodic changes, such as between the seasons of the year.
- Consideration of an idea; the act of revolving something in the mind.
Usage notes
- Astronomers today do not use revolution to refer to the turning of an object about an axis: they use rotation for that, and revolution only for the traversal of a body through an orbit (which also happens around some axis). (This may be somewhat customary, however, strictly speaking, using either word for either process would not be incorrect.)
Antonyms
- (sudden, vast change): evolution
Derived terms
- Revolution
- revolutionary
- revolutionize
- Compounds
- agricultural revolution
- French Revolution
- Industrial Revolution
- information revolution
- palace revolution
- Russian Revolution
- solid of revolution
Related terms
- revolve
Translations
Further reading
- "revolution" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 270.
Danish
Etymology
From French révolution.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r?volusjo?n/, [??volu??o??n]
Noun
revolution c (singular definite revolutionen, plural indefinite revolutioner)
- revolution (political upheaval)
- revolution (removal and replacement of a government)
- revolution (sudden, vast change in a situation or discipline)
Inflection
Derived terms
- revolutionere
- revolutionær
Further reading
- revolution on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /revolu?t?sjon/
Noun
revolution (plural revolutiones)
- revolution
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r?v?l???u?n/
Noun
revolution c
- a revolution (upheaval, replacement of government, sudden change)
Declension
Related terms
- revolt
- revoltera
- revolutionsgardist
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