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/swˈɪtʃɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Switching n. A. & n. from Switch, v.

Switching engine, a locomotive for switching cars from one track to another, and making up trains; called also switch engine. (U.S.)

verb

Switch v. t. (past & past part. switched; pres. part. switching)

To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.

To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.

To trim, as, a hedge. (Prov. Eng.)

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.

(Eccl.) To shift to another circuit.

Switch v. i. To walk with a jerk. (Prov. Eng.)

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Etymology of 'Switching'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Switching" Quotes from Famous Books

... Switching on the ICEG took his mind back to the snug apartment where its receiver stood, the armchair, books, desk of diverting work. It looked awful good, but ... life fought back, and always it ...

— A Matter of Proportion • Anne Walker

... little rosette for the coat. Notice how I can turn the minute incandescent lamp, placed in the centre of the rose, off or on at my pleasure. If I disconnect it with the battery, which is in my pocket, the lamp goes out; if I connect it with my battery the lamp shines brilliantly. This all comes by "switching it on" or "switching it off," as we commonly express the act of connecting or disconnecting the lamp with the source ...

— The Story of a Tinder-box • Charles Meymott Tidy

... every preparation for cutting through the sudd, and we were well prepared with many hundred sharp bill-hooks, switching-hooks, bean-hooks, sabres, &c. I had also some hundred miners' spades, shovels, &c., in case it might be necessary to deepen the shallows. While the whole English party were full of spirit and determined to succeed, I regret to ...

— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker

... the 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 he stood ...

— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson

... but more because it was an impulse, and furnished me for the moment with some definite objective, something to do. I got up, slipped on a dressing gown, and went downstairs. The lights were all out. I was just on the point of switching on those in the reception hall, when suddenly it seemed as though I had not strength to lift my hand, and I remember that for an instant I grew terribly cold with dread and fear. From the room on my right a voice had reached me. The door was closed, ...

— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard

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