The meaning of Switching

Switching – definition

verb
Change the position, direction, or focus of.
Usage examples:
The company switched the boats to other routes
Synonims:
Change Shift Convert Divert Redirect Reverse Chop and change
verb
Beat or flick with or as if with a switch.

noun
A device for making and breaking the connection in an electric circuit.
Usage examples:
The guard hit a switch and the gate swung open

noun
An act of changing to or adopting one thing in place of another.
Usage examples:
His friends were surprised at his switch from newspaper owner to farmer

noun
A slender, flexible shoot cut from a tree.
Usage examples:
The students are lined up in somewhat orderly rows by their class leaders while a few of the teache…

noun
A set of points on a railway track.
Usage examples:
In later years private contractors installed the siding while the railway installed the switch.

noun
A tress of false or detached hair tied at one end, used in hairdressing to supplement natural hair.
Usage examples:
On an impulse, katherine reached up with her other hand and flicked her hood off of her head, revea…

verb
Present participle of switch
Usage examples:
Switch the tv off/on, she started studying english, but switched to history in her second year., in…

Switching translation into English

Switching: translate from English into Chinese

交换

Switching: translate from English into Dutch

Schakelen

Switching: translate from English into French

Commutation

Switching: translate from English into German

Schalten, Schaltung, Verkehrung

Switching: translate from English into Hindi

स्विचन

Switching: translate from English into Italian

Commutazione, Smistamento

Switching: translate from English into Korean

스위칭

Switching: translate from English into Russian

Переключение

Switching: translate from English into Spanish

Traspuesta

Word origin

late 16th century (denoting a thin tapering riding whip): probably from Low German.

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Switching – similar words

switch

noun
A device for making and breaking the connection in an electric circuit.
Usage examples:
The guard hit a switch and the gate swung open

verb
Change the position, direction, or focus of.
Usage examples:
The company switched the boats to other routes

verb
Device for making or breaking the connections in a circuit

All meanings and translations of Switch

Switching synonims

change

verb
Make (someone or something) different; alter or modify.
Usage examples:
Both parties voted against proposals to change the law

noun
An act or process through which something becomes different.
Usage examples:
The change from a nomadic to an agricultural society

All meanings and translations of Change

convert

kənˈvɜːt

verb
Change the form, character, or function of something.
Usage examples:
Modernization has converted the country from a primitive society to a near-industrial one

noun
A person who has been persuaded to change their religious faith or other belief.
Usage examples:
He is a recent convert to the church

verb
To change the character, appearance, or operation of something
Usage examples:
[ t ] we converted our oil furnace to gas to save money., [ i ] most of the families in the communi…

All meanings and translations of Convert

divert

verb
Cause (someone or something) to change course or turn from one direction to another.
Usage examples:
A scheme to divert water from the river to irrigate agricultural land

verb
Turn aside; turn away from

verb
To cause something or someone to turn in a different direction
Usage examples:
Our flight was diverted from san francisco to oakland because of the fog., the administration had t…

All meanings and translations of Divert

redirect

verb
Direct (something) to a new or different place or purpose.
Usage examples:
Get the post office to redirect your mail

noun
An instance of redirecting something from one address to another, such as an email or a url for a web page.
Usage examples:
When you're in australia entering google.com into your browser will usually result in a redirect to…

verb
To use money, assets, etc. for a different purpose from the one they were originally intended for
Usage examples:
Redirect sth (from sth) to sth cost savings have allowed companies to redirect resources to other p…

All meanings and translations of Redirect

reverse

verb
Move backwards.
Usage examples:
The lorry reversed into the back of a bus

adjective
Going in or turned towards the direction opposite to that previously stated.
Usage examples:
The trend appears to be going in the reverse direction

noun
A complete change of direction or action.
Usage examples:
The gall actuates a reverse of photosynthesis

All meanings and translations of Reverse

shift

verb
Move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance.
Usage examples:
A team from the power company came to shift the cables away from the house

noun
A slight change in position, direction, or tendency.
Usage examples:
A shift in public opinion

verb
Move very slightly

All meanings and translations of Shift

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