Switch vs Press - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between switch and press

is that switch is to change places, tasks, etc while press is to lay stress upon, emphasize.

As nouns the difference between switch and press

is that switch is a device to turn electric current on]] and [[turn off|off or direct its flow while press is (lb) a device used to apply pressure to an item.

As verbs the difference between switch and press

is that switch is to exchange while press is (ambitransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight.

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

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(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

References

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press
English

Etymology 1
(etyl) ).
Noun

(lb) A device used to apply pressure to an item.

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#(lb) A printing machine.

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(lb) A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).

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*, chapter=22
, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press , the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
(lb) A publisher.

(lb) (especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).

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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.

An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.

*1974 , Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding , p.22:

*:This is the fourth set of benchpresses. There will be five more; then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench.

An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager in value, but begins even at the time of the bet.

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(lb) Pure, unfermented grape juice.

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A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:I have misused the king's press .

Synonyms
* (storage space) closet, cupboard, wardrobe (British ) * (printing machine) printing press
Derived terms
* alternative press * bench press * fruit press * press cake * press gang * press-mark * press officer * press secretary * shoulder press * trouser press
Etymology 2
(etyl) .
Verb

(ambitransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight

to compress, squeeze

to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice

to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug

She took her son, and press'd

The illustrious infant to her fragrant breast'' (''Dryden , Illiad, VI. 178.)

to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth

to press cloth with an iron

to press a hat

(sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas.

to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction

to press a crowd back

(obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble

He turns from us;

Alas, he weeps too! Something presses him

He would reveal, but dare not.-Sir, be comforted.'' (''Fletcher , Pilgrim, I. 2.)

to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel

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The two gentlemen who conducted me to the island were pressed by their private affairs to return in three days.

To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate.

to press the Bible on an audience

* Dryden

He pressed a letter upon me within this hour.

* Addison

Be sure to press upon him every motive.

to hasten, urge onward

to press a horse in a race

to urge, beseech, entreat

God heard their prayers, wherein they earnestly pressed him for the honor of his great name.'' (''Winthrop , Hist. New England, II. 35)

to lay stress upon, emphasize

If we read but a very little, we naturally want to press it all; if we read a great deal, we are willing not to press the whole of what we read, and we learn what ought to be pressed and what not.'' (''M. Arnold , Literature and Dogma, Pref.)

(ambitransitive) to throng, crowd

(obsolete) to print

To force into service, particularly into naval service.

* Dryden

To peaceful peasant to the wars is pressed .

Quotations
* (English Citations of "press")
Synonyms
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Derived terms
* press charges * press on
See also
* hot press (baking, laundry) * hot off the press (printing) * press down
References
* Entry for the imperfect and past participle in Webster's dictionary * *
Anagrams
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