Definitions of switch
British English : switch If you switch to something different, for example to a different system, task, or subject of conversation, you change to it from what you were doing or saying before.Companies are switching to cleaner fuels.swɪtʃ VERB
- a mechanical, electrical, electronic, or optical device for opening or closing a circuit or for diverting energy from one part of a circuit to another
- a swift and usually sudden shift or change
- an exchange or swap
- a flexible rod or twig, used esp for punishment
- the sharp movement or blow of such an instrument
- a tress of false hair used to give added length or bulk to a woman's own hairstyle
- the tassel-like tip of the tail of cattle and certain other animals
- any of various card games in which the suit is changed during play
- (US & Canadian ) a railway siding
- (US & Canadian ) a railway point
- (Australian , informal ) See switchboard
- to shift, change, turn aside, or change the direction of (something)
- to exchange (places); replace (something by something else) ⇒ the battalions switched fronts
- (mainly US & Canadian ) to transfer (rolling stock) from one railway track to another
- (transitive) to cause (an electric current) to start or stop flowing or to change its path by operating a switch
- to swing or cause to swing, esp back and forth
- (transitive) to lash or whip with or as if with a switch