switch
开关,转换,转换器,开关机
Related Words
Definitions
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- : a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- : an act of whipping or beating with or as with such an object; a stroke, lash, or whisking movement.
- : a slender growing shoot, as of a plant.
- : a hairpiece consisting of a bunch or tress of long hair or some substitute, fastened together at one end and worn by women to supplement their own hair.
- : Electricity. a device for turning on or off or directing an electric current or for making or breaking a circuit.
- : Railroads. a track structure for diverting moving trains or rolling stock from one track to another, commonly consisting of a pair of movable rails.
- : a turning, shifting, or changing: a switch of votes to another candidate.
- : Bridge. a change to a suit other than the one played or bid previously.
- : Basketball. a maneuver in which two teammates on defense shift assignments so that each guards the opponent usually guarded by the other.
- : a tuft of hair at the end of the tail of some animals, as of the cow or lion.
Phrases
- switch off
- switch on
- asleep at the switch
- bait and switch
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Previously that miscreant switch had been identified in rice plants and was named “karma.”
There’s a hardware switch to turn off the microphones completely, but that defeats one of the key functions of the device.
You don’t just flip a switch from dry enough to burn to not dry enough to burn.
Cabana’s change in demographics exemplifies what could be a long-term switch from long-distance air travel to domestic road travel.
Their technique relies on a series of synthetic proteins that can be customized to create a variety of switches.
However, that switch to potatoes occurred around the 19th Century.
In a series of more than 20 tweets, Hatem admitted that he tried to get AQAP to switch allegiances from Zawahiri to Baghdadi.
We drive back to Asadabad in silence, where we switch cars for security reasons and begin the six hour drive back home.
Michlin, who was looking for ideas for a new startup company, says he felt a lightbulb switch on over his head.
He said it would be wise to stop taking it, lest it turn on my “genetic light switch.”
He lifted his head, looked around him, and was just going to switch off the light, when he noticed the open book on his table.
Even as he spoke, Gray had found the , and the apartment of Kazmah became flooded with subdued light.