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switch

English

  1. 🔊 the act of changing one thing or position for another
    “his switch on abortion cost him the election”
  2. 🔊 a basketball maneuver
  3. 🔊 a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
  4. 🔊 control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
  5. 🔊 railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections
  6. 🔊 hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair
  7. 🔊 an event in which one thing is substituted for another
    “the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood”
  8. 🔊 make a shift in or exchange of
    “First Joe led; then we switched”
  9. 🔊 lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
    “switch to a different brand of beer”
  10. 🔊 flog with or as if with a flexible rod
  11. 🔊 change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
  12. 🔊 reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
  13. 🔊 cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
    “switch on the light”
  14. 🔊 exchange or give (something) in exchange for

Spanish

  1. 🔊 aguja switch
  2. 🔊 pulsador switch, button
  3. 🔊 conmutación switch, switching
  4. 🔊 interruptor switch, light switch
  5. 🔊 conmutador switch, network switch
  6. 🔊 cambiar to switch, to switch up, to change, to trade, to swap (usually + de) (when implying changing from one thing to another)

Similar words

switching shift electric switch electrical switch substitution permutation transposition replacement interchange tack alternate flip flip-flop switch over exchange change over shift shift change throw flip trade swap swop