Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
A small, flexible twig or rod.
- 2noun
A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.
- 3noun
A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.
- 4noun
A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.
- 5transitive verb
To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.
- 6transitive verb
To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.
- 7transitive verb
To trim, as, a hedge.
- 8transitive 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.
- 9transitive verb
To shift to another circuit.
- 10intransitive verb
To walk with a jerk.
- 11noun
the act of changing one thing or position for another
"his switch on abortion cost him the election"
- 12noun
a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
- 13noun
a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
- 14noun
control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
- 15noun
railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
- 16noun
hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
- 17noun
an event in which one thing is substituted for another
"the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
- 18verb
reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
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- 19verb
change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
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- 20verb
make a shift in or exchange of
"First Joe led; then we switched"
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- 21verb
lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
"switch to a different brand of beer"
"She switched psychiatrists"
- 22verb
flog with or as if with a flexible rod
- 23verb
cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
"switch on the light"
"throw the lever"
- 24verb
exchange or give (something) in exchange for
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