noun
A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
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.
Wenger sent on Cesc Fabregas and Van Persie to try to finish Leeds off and with 14 minutes left the switch paid off as the Spaniard sent Bendtner away down the right and his wonderful curling cross was headed in by Van Persie at the far post.
A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
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; […]
"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.."
Synonym of rute.
verb
To exchange.
A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
I want to switch this red dress for a green one.
To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
Switch the light on.
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.
To change places, tasks, etc.
I want to switch to a different seat.
To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
adj
Pertaining to riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.
Pertaining to skiing backwards.