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Switching   /swˈɪtʃɪŋ/   Listen
Switching

noun
1.
The act of changing one thing or position for another.  Synonyms: shift, switch.


Switch

verb
(past & past part. switched; pres. part. switching)
1.
Change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence.  Synonyms: exchange, switch over.
2.
Exchange or give (something) in exchange for.  Synonyms: swap, swop, trade.
3.
Lay aside, abandon, or leave for another.  Synonyms: change, shift.  "She switched psychiatrists" , "The car changed lanes"
4.
Make a shift in or exchange of.  Synonyms: change over, shift.
5.
Cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation.  Synonyms: flip, throw.  "Throw the lever"
6.
Flog with or as if with a flexible rod.
7.
Reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action).  Synonyms: alternate, flip, flip-flop, interchange, tack.



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"Switching" Quotes from Famous Books



... seem to mark a railroad town. We were amazed at the amount of traffic that occurs in the night. Three big overland trains passed through in either direction, the interim being filled in with the switching of cars, accompanied apparently with a most unnecessary ringing of bells and piercing shrieks from whistles. Since our hotel was not more than a hundred and fifty feet from the main line, with no intervening buildings to temper the ...
— A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country • Thomas Dykes Beasley
... of her as she had been that day in Princes Street, with the hairs straggling under her hat and her fierce eyes holding back the tears, telling him haughtily that a great cause made one indifferent to discomfort; and he nearly laughed aloud. He looked across the hall at her and just caught her switching her gaze from him to the platform. He felt a curious swaggering triumph at the ...
— The Judge • Rebecca West
... begun so badly brought such sudden and enormous enrichment to the aesthetics of sight and hearing—apart from such considerations—the influence of one philosopher, one thinker, one writer, can modify the whole literature of an epoch, switching the mind on to a new road in psychological, moral, aesthetic, or social research. If any one wish to be isolated, isolated let him be! But the republic of the mind tends to enlarge its frontiers day by day. The greatest men are ...
— The Forerunners • Romain Rolland
... on the job ten minutes after the first tap of the bell, and the way they go after a red tongue of flame on a kitchen roof reminds me of a terrier shaking a rat. They are our real heroes,—the fire-laddies,—for outside of Frank Ericson and Shorty McGrew, who work on the switching-crew, and come sailing down through town hanging gracefully from the end of a box-car ladder by one foot and hand, no one else has any chance to ...
— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch
... ear, and dropping the fingers that lay cold as marble in his, Mr. Dunbar swung himself to the station platform. The train moved off, but he knew that it would return in switching, and so ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson


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