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/swˈɪtʃɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Switching n. A. & n. from Switch, v.

Switching engine, a locomotive for switching cars from one track to another, and making up trains; called also switch engine. (U.S.)

verb

Switch v. t. (past & past part. switched; pres. part. switching)

To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.

To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.

To trim, as, a hedge. (Prov. Eng.)

To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.

(Eccl.) To shift to another circuit.

Switch v. i. To walk with a jerk. (Prov. Eng.)

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Etymology of 'Switching'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Switching" Quotes from Famous Books

... Tobin, and rear-brakeman Joe, his right-hand man, who had just finished switching their train back on the main track, and getting it again started on its way toward New York. At the sight of Rod, who was of course a perfect stranger to them, sitting on the floor, hatless, covered with ...

— Cab and Caboose - The Story of a Railroad Boy • Kirk Munroe

... into the study. He placed a little table beside the chair on which I sat. He set a decanter of whisky, a syphon of soda water and a box of cigars at my elbow. He brought a reading lamp and put it behind me, switching on the electric current so that the light fell brightly over my shoulder. He turned off the other lights in the room. He asked me if there were anything else he could do for me. Then ...

— Gossamer - 1915 • George A. Birmingham

... man was standing in an attitude of expectancy—a very handsome man clothed in the picturesque costume of a ranchero. He leaned upon his rifle, but betrayed both anger and impatience in the rapid switching to and fro of his riding-whip. "Plato, she has not come!" He said it reproachfully, as if the ...

— Winter Evening Tales • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

... currently being modernized and expanded with the goal of not only improving the efficiency and increasing the volume of the urban service but also bringing telephone service to several thousand villages, not presently connected domestic: the addition of new fiber cables and modern switching and exchange systems installed by Iran's state owned telecom company have improved and expanded the main line network greatly; main line availability has more than doubled to 19 million lines since 1995; additionally, ...

— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... ain't you?" sneered Sam Harper, addressing the canine; "come here, that I may give you another switching." ...

— Through Forest and Fire - Wild-Woods Series No. 1 • Edward Ellis

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