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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Switch \Switch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Switched}; p. pr & vb n.
{Switching}.]
1. To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.
--Chapman.
2. To swing or whisk; as to switch a cane.
3. To trim, as a hedge. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
4. 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.
5. (Eccl.) To shift to another circuit.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Switching \Switch"ing\,
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.]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
switching
n : the act of changing one thing or position for another; "his
switch on abortion cost him the election" [syn: {switch},
{shift}]
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