Control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit.

synonyms: electric switch, electrical switch.

Roget 975: scourge, rod, cane, stick; ratan^†, rattan; birch, birch rod; azote^†, blacksnake^†, bullwhack [U.S.], chicote^†, kurbash^†, quirt, rawhide, sjambok^†; rod in pickle; switch, ferule, cudgel, truncheon.    whip, bullwhip, lash, strap, thong, cowhide, knout; cat, cat o'nine tails; rope's end.    pillory, stocks, whipping post; cucking stool^†, ducking stool; brank^†; trebuchet^†, trebuket^†.    [instruments of torture: list], triangle, wooden horse, iron maiden, thumbscrew, boot, rack, wheel, iron heel; chinese water torture.    treadmill, crank, galleys.    scaffold; block, ax, guillotine; stake; cross; gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring; death chair, electric chair; gas chamber; lethal injection; firing squad; mecate^†.    house of correction etc. (prison) 752.    goaler, jailer; executioner; electrocutioner^†; lyncher; hangman; headsman^†; Jack Ketch.    ... show more

Dutch: contact, schakelaar, schakelknop
Polish: łącznik elektryczny

An event in which one thing is substituted for another.

synonyms: permutation, replacement, substitution, transposition.

Dutch: transpositie

Hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure.

Railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock.

Dutch: wissel, schakelaar, twijg, spitsroede
Polish: zwrotnica

A flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment.

Dutch: gard, garde, roe, roede

A basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other.

The act of changing one thing or position for another:
— His switch on abortion cost him the election.

synonyms: shift, switching.

Dutch: wissel, wisseling
Polish: metamorfoza, przekształcanie, przemiana, transformacja, przekształcenie, zmiana, przeobrażenie, zamiana

Change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence.

synonyms: exchange, switch over.

Roget 972: punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste [Slang].    visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; do for; make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of; have a rod in pickle for; give it one.    strike etc. 276; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge^†, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund^†, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate^†, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.    tar and feather; pelt, stone, lapidate^†; masthead, keelhaul.    execute; bring to the block, bring to the gallows; behead, decapitate, guillotine; decollate; hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter; shoot; decimate; burn; break on the wheel, crucify; empale^†, impale; flay; lynch; electrocute; gas, send to the gas chamber.    torture; put on, put to the rack; picket.    banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize; rusticate; drum out; dismiss, disbar, disbench^†; strike off the roll, unfrock; post.    suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment; be flogged.    be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty; be hanged &c.; come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing [Coll.], twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes; be rightly served; be electrocuted, fry [Coll.], ride the lightning [Coll.]; face the firing squad.    ... show more

Dutch: omwisselen, switchen

Exchange or give (something) in exchange for.

synonyms: swap, swop, trade.

Lay aside, abandon, or leave for another:
— Switch to a different brand of beer.
— She switched psychiatrists.

synonyms: change, shift.

Make a shift in or exchange of:
— First Joe led; then we switched.

synonyms: change over, shift.

Cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation:
— Switch on the light.

synonyms: flip, throw.

Flog with or as if with a flexible rod.

Reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action).

synonyms: alternate, flip, flip-flop, interchange, tack.