switch

switch is a 6-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small, flexible twig or rod. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 14 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A small, flexible twig or rod.
2. noun. A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.
3. noun. A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.
4. noun. A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.
5. transitive verb. To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.
6. transitive verb. To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.
7. transitive verb. To trim, as, a hedge.
8. transitive verb. To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.
9. transitive verb. To shift to another circuit.
10. intransitive verb. To walk with a jerk.
11. noun. the act of changing one thing or position for another

    "his switch on abortion cost him the election"

    Synonyms: shift, switching

12. noun. a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
13. noun. a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
14. noun. control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
15. noun. railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
16. noun. hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
17. noun. an event in which one thing is substituted for another

    "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"

    Synonyms: permutation, replacement, substitution, transposition

18. verb. reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)

    Synonyms: alternate, flip, interchange, tack

19. verb. change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence

    Synonyms: exchange

20. verb. make a shift in or exchange of

    "First Joe led; then we switched"

    Synonyms: shift

21. verb. lay aside, abandon, or leave for another

    "switch to a different brand of beer"

    "She switched psychiatrists"

    Synonyms: change, shift

22. verb. flog with or as if with a flexible rod
23. verb. cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation

    "switch on the light"

    "throw the lever"

    Synonyms: flip, throw

24. verb. exchange or give (something) in exchange for

    Synonyms: swap, swop, trade

Synonyms

shift, switching, permutation, replacement, substitution, transposition, alternate, flip, interchange, tack, exchange, change, throw, swap, swop, trade

Common word forms

switched, switcher, switches, switching, switchable

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