Usually means: Device for making, breaking connections.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. switch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. switch: Merriam-Webster
  3. switch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. switch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. switch: Collins English Dictionary
  6. switch: Vocabulary.com
  7. Switch, switch: Wordnik
  8. switch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Switch, switch: Wiktionary
  10. switch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. switch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. switch: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. switch: Dictionary.com
  14. switch (n.), switch (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. switch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Switch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. switch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. switch: Rhymezone
  20. switch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. switch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. switch: FreeDictionary.org
  23. switch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. switch: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. switch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Switch: bizterms.net
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Switch: Investopedia
  4. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  5. switch: Legal dictionary
  6. Switch: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. switch: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. switch: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  3. switch: Netlingo
  4. Switch, switch: CCI Computer
  5. Switch: Game Dictionary
  6. switch: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  7. Switch: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  8. Webopedia (No longer online)
  9. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Technopedia (No longer online)
  11. Switch (computer), Switch (network), Switch (networking), switch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. switch: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
  2. SWITCH: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. switch: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. switch, switch, switch, switch, switch, switch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. the switch: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Switch: Card Games
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Switch: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. switch: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. switch: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Explosives (No longer online)
  5. Switch: Construction Glossary
  6. Switch: Web Hosting Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
noun:  A change or exchange.
noun:  (rail transport, US, Philippines) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
noun:  A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in the United States.
noun:  (music) Synonym of rute.
noun:  (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
noun:  (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (telecommunications) 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.
noun:  (genetics) A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
noun:  (especially BDSM) One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
noun:  (historical) 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.
noun:  (card games) A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
noun:  (firearms, slang) Synonym of Glock switch.
noun:  (slang, metonymically) A Glock pistol equipped with a Glock switch.
verb:  (transitive) To exchange.
verb:  (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
verb:  (transitive, in modern times Southern US) To whip or hit with a switch.
verb:  (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
verb:  (slang, intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
verb:  To swing or whisk.
verb:  To be swung or whisked.
verb:  To trim.
verb:  To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
verb:  (ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
verb:  (intransitive) To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
adjective:  (snowboarding) Pertaining to riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.
adjective:  (freestyle skiing) Pertaining to skiing backwards.
noun:  (video games) Ellipsis of Nintendo Switch.

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