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Switch is a related term of club.


As nouns the difference between switch and club

is that switch is a device to turn electric current on]] and [[turn off|off or direct its flow while club is club (association of members).

As a verb switch

is to exchange.

As an adjective switch

is (snowboarding) riding with their opposite foot forward from their natural position bbc sport, [http://wwwbbccouk/sport/0/winter-olympics/26141070 "sochi 2014: a jargon-busting guide to the halfpipe"], 11 february 2014 .

switch

English

Noun

(es)
  • A device to turn electric current on]] and [[turn off, off or direct its flow.
  • A change.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 19 , author=Jonathan Stevenson , title=Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Wenger sent on Cesc Fabregas and Van Persie to try to finish Leeds off and with 14 minutes left the switch paid off as the Spaniard sent Bendtner away down the right and his wonderful curling cross was headed in by Van Persie at the far post. }}
  • (rail transport, US) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; point.
  • A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in the United States.
  • * 2007 , Jeffrey W. Hamilton, Raising Godly Children in a Wicked World , Lulu.com, page 15:
    • "A proper switch is a slim, flexible branch off a tree or a bush. A switch applied to the buttocks stings fiercely. It may leave red marks or bruises, but it causes no lasting damage. ."
  • (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
    • Use the /b switch to specify black-and-white printing.
  • (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
  • * 2004', "Curt", ''Can I use IF statements, and still use '''switches ?'' (on newsgroup ''microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields )
  • (computing, networking) A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
  • (telecommunication) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
  • (BDSM) One who is willing to take either a sadistic or a masochistic role.
  • * 2012 , Terri-Jean Bedford, Bondage Bungalow Fantasies (page 99)
    • Ideally, if one of your ladies happens to be a switch (or would be willing to switch for this scene), I would love to be able to inflict a little "revenge tickling" as well, as part of a scenario.
  • A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.

    • Synonyms

    * (section of railroad track) (UK ) points * (whip) crop * (command-line notation) flag, option, specifier

    Derived terms

    * asleep at the switch * dipswitch * light switch * railway switch * switchback * switchblade * switchboard * switcheroo * switchout

    Verb

    (es)
  • To exchange.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
    • , page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) , title= Ideas coming down the track , passage=A “moving platform” scheme
  • To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
  • To whip or hit with a switch.
  • * 1899 , (Joseph Conrad),
    • They were looking on the ground, absorbed in thought. The manager was switching his leg with a slender twig: his sagacious relative lifted his head.
  • To change places, tasks, etc.
  • (slang) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
  • To swing or whisk.
    • to switch a cane
  • To be swung or whisked.
    • The angry cat's tail switched back and forth.
  • To trim.
    • to switch a hedge
    (Halliwell)
  • To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off'', ''from , etc.
    • to switch''' off a train; to '''switch a car from one track to another
  • (ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (snowboarding) riding with their opposite foot forward from their natural position. BBC Sport, "Sochi 2014: A jargon-busting guide to the halfpipe", 11 February 2014

    • Coordinate terms

    (snowboarding) * goofy * regular

    See also

    * switch off * switch on

    References

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    club

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything(w).
  • *, chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs ,
  • #An implement to hit the ball in some ballgames, e.g. golf.
  • An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
  • *
  • *:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club , or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
  • #(lb) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
  • #*(rfdate) (Benjamin Franklin):
  • #*:He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
  • A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
  • *(w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
  • *:They laid down the club .
  • *(Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)
  • *:We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club .
  • An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
  • :
  • A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
  • #A playing card marked with such a symbol.
  • #:
  • (lb) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
  • :
  • :

    • Synonyms

    * (weapon) cudgel * (sports association) team

    Hyponyms

    * *

    Derived terms

    * benefit club * clubbing * clubfoot * clubhouse * club sandwich * golf club * nightclub * on the club

    Verb

    (clubb)
  • to hit with a club.
    • He clubbed the poor dog.
  • To join together to form a group.
  • * Dryden
    • Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.
  • (transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
    • a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
  • To go to nightclubs.
    • We went clubbing in Ibiza.
  • To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubbed for a feather to his hat.
  • To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
    • to club the expense
  • (nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
  • (military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1876 , author=Major-General G. E. Voyle and Captain G. De Saint-Clair-Stevenson, F.R.G.S. , title=A Military Dictionary, Comprising Terms, Scientific and Otherwise, Connected with the Science of War, Third Edition , publisher=London: William Clowes & Sons , page=80 , passage=To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column. }}
  • To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
    • to club exertions
  • (military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

    • Anagrams

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