Switch vs Sap - What's the difference?
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A device to turn electric current on]] and [[turn off, off or direct its flow.
A change.
* {{quote-news
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(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:
(computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
(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)
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.
To exchange.
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, title= To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
To whip or hit with a switch.
* 1899 , (Joseph Conrad),
To change places, tasks, etc.
(slang) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
To swing or whisk.
To be swung or whisked.
To trim.
To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off'', ''from , etc.
(ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
(snowboarding) riding with their opposite foot forward from their natural position. BBC Sport,
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(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
(uncountable) The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.
(slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
(countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
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(slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
(military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
* (rfdate)
(military) To pierce with saps.
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
* 1850 ,
To gradually weaken.
* to sap one’s conscience
To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12
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As nouns the difference between switch and sap
is that switch is a device to turn electric current on]] and [[turn off|off or direct its flow while sap is wax.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)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. }}
- "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. ."
- Use the /b switch to specify black-and-white printing.
- 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.
Synonyms
* (section of railroad track) (UK ) points * (whip) crop * (command-line notation) flag, option, specifierDerived terms
* asleep at the switch * dipswitch * light switch * railway switch * switchback * switchblade * switchboard * switcheroo * switchoutVerb
(es)Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
- 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 switch a cane
- The angry cat's tail switched back and forth.
- to switch a hedge
- (Halliwell)
- to switch''' off a train; to '''switch a car from one track to another
Adjective
(-)"Sochi 2014: A jargon-busting guide to the halfpipe", 11 February 2014
Coordinate terms
(snowboarding) * goofy * regularSee also
* switch off * switch onReferences
sap
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sap, from (etyl) ), from *''sap 'to taste'. More at sage.Noun
(wikipedia sap)Derived terms
(terms derived from sap) * crude sap * elaborated sap * sap ball * sap green * saphead * sapling * sap poison * sap rot * sapsucker * sap tubeEtymology 2
Probably from sapling.Noun
(en noun)Verb
(sapp)Etymology 3
From (etyl) saper (compare Spanish zapar and Italian zappare) from .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* sap fagot * sap roller * sapperVerb
(sapp)- Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.
- Ring out the grief that saps the mind
- Both assaults carried on by sapping .