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Definition of Switch

Switch

  1. A device for shifting an electric current to another circuit, or for making and breaking a circuit.
  2. A small, flexible twig or rod.
  3. A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.
  4. A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.
  5. A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.
  6. To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.
  7. To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.
  8. To trim, as, a hedge.
  9. 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.
  10. To shift to another circuit.
  11. To walk with a jerk.

Switch Quotations

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Muhammad Ali

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
Chuck Palahniuk

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.
Gordon Ramsay

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Denis Waitley

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
Richard Dawkins
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Switch Translations

switch in Dutch is roede, gard, spitsroede, stokje
switch in French is badine, baguette, interrupteur
switch in German is umschalten, Schalter, Schalter, wechsel
switch in Italian is interruttore
switch in Norwegian is bryter
switch in Portuguese is interruptor
switch in Spanish is interruptor, conmutar

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