switch
noun/swɪtʃ/
Слово англійською: switch
Переклад switch українською: вимика́ч, вмика́ч, стрі́лка (трамва́йна, залізни́чна і т. д.)
Детальний опис
- a small device that you press or move up and down in order to turn a light or piece of electrical equipment on and off
- a light switch
- an on–off switch
- He flipped a switch and the lights came on.
- to flick/press a switch
- to throw a switch (= to move a large switch)
- (figurative) A young team can't just flip a switch and have the experience needed to win.
- That was in the days before electricity was available at the flick of a switch (= by simply pressing a switch).
Wordfindersee also dimmer switch, dip switch, kill switch, rocker switch, time switch, toggle switch- battery
- charge
- conduct
- connect
- electricity
- generate
- insulate
- power
- switch
- wire
- a change from one thing to another, especially when this is sudden and complete
- a policy switch
- switch in/of something a switch of priorities
- switch from A to B She made the switch from full-time to part-time work when her first child was born.
- (North American English) the points on a railway line
- a thin stick that bends easily
Word Originlate 16th cent. (denoting a thin tapering riding whip): probably from Low German.
Idioms
asleep at the switch (North American English)
(also asleep on the job, asleep at the wheel (both British and North American English))
- not paying enough attention to what you need to do
- Someone must have been asleep at the switch to alow this to happen.
- They were asleep on the job as the financial crisis deepened.
- Let's hope the regulators are not asleep at the wheel.