switch

verb12

1. •
   to change one thing for another, such as a seat, a job or a team

   • I want to switch this red dress for a green one.
2. •
   To change places, tasks, etc.

   • I want to switch to a different seat.
3. •
   To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.

   • Feel free to ask her to follow, lead, or switch! — 2023
4. •
   To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.

   • Switch the light on.
5. •
   To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
6. •
   To shift to another circuit.
7. •
   To move (the ball or equivalent) from one side of the playing area to the other.
8. •
   To swing or whisk.
9. •
   To be swung or whisked.

   • The angry cat's tail switched back and forth.
10. •
    To whip or hit with a switch.

    • They were looking on the ground, absorbed in thought. The manager was switching his leg with a slender twig: his sagacious relative lifted his head. — 1899
11. •
    (slang) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
12. •
    To trim.

    • Switch and clip thorn and other deciduous hedges. — 1811

noun17

1. •
   A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
2. •
   A change or exchange.

   • 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. — 1985
3. •
   The process of the currently fronting headmate changing; an instance of this.

   • Switches only happen once every couple weeks for us, but they're quite sudden when they happen.
4. •
   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.
5. •
   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.
6. •
   (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. •
   A long, slender woody plant stem or a flexible, thin rod used as a whip to administer corporal punishment in the United States.

   • 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; […] — 1953
8. •
   A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.

   • Use the /b switch to specify black-and-white printing.
9. •
   A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
10. •
    A play in which the ball (or equivalent) is moved from one side of the playing area to the other.
11. •
    A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
12. •
    (slang) One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.

    • 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
13. •
    (slang) Synonym of Glock switch.
14. •
    (slang) A Glock pistol equipped with a Glock switch.

    • The way that switch brrt, I know he dyin' (Oh my, oh my God). 6-7, I just bipped right on the highway (Bip, bip). — 2024
15. •
    (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.
16. •
    A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
17. •
    Synonym of rute.

adjective2

1. •
   Pertaining to riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.
2. •
   Pertaining to skiing backwards.

noun1

1. •
   Ellipsis of Nintendo Switch.

   • Super Bomberman R was a launch title on the Switch.