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Definition: Switch Over

Switch Over

Verb

1. Change over, change around, or switch over.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Switch Over

Synonyms: exchange (v), switch (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Switch Over

English words defined with "switch over": exchangeswitch. (references)
Specialty definitions using "switch over": access concentratorpacket assembler/disassembler concentrator, PAD concentratorremote access point. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Switch Over

DomainTitle

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Switch Over

SubjectTopicQuote

Political Economy

Finland

As of January 1, 2002, Finland will switch over to the single European currency. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: Switch Over

Expression using "switch over": switch over to. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Switch Over

Language Translations for "switch over"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kalim (crossing, cut, devolution, escape, going, jump, lapse, negotiation, orifice, pass, passage, passageway, passing, release, transfer, transference, transit, transition). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏غير المحطة, ‏غير القناة, ‏غير (beyond, budge, but, change, commute, fashion, masquerade, metamorphose, mis, modify, modulate, non, overrun, rehash, renew, reverse, revise, shape, shift, switch, than, transfer, transpose, turn, un-). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

смяна в положението, обрат в тактика, обрат в мнение, промяна в положението, превключвам, премествам (displace, heave, move, offset, remove, shift, shunt, transfer, translate, translocate, transpose). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

通過 (by means of, through, to adopt, to get through, to pass through, to switch over, via). (various references)

   

Czech

  

přepojit, přepojení. (various references)

   

Danish

  

laegge en togvej (to divert a train, to switch over a train), fastlaegge en togvej (to divert a train, to prepare a route, to set up a route, to switch over a train). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

omschakelen (commute). (various references)

   

French

  

commuter (switch), changer de station, changer de chaîne, changer (switch). (various references)

   

German

  

umschalten (change, change over, commute, convert, flick a switch, go over, pull a lever, push a lever, shift, switch, to shift, turn over, zap). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

διευθετώ με τη βοήθεια της αλλαγής την πορεία των τρένων (to divert a train, to switch over a train). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

átkapcsolás (shifting). (various references)

   

Italian

  

istradare un treno (to divert a train, to switch over a train). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

切り換え時 (response time, time to switch over), 切り換える (to change, to convert, to exchange, to renew, to replace, to switch over, to throw a switch), 切り替え時 (response time, time to switch over), 切り替える (to change, to convert, to exchange, to renew, to replace, to switch over, to throw a switch). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きりかえどき (response time, time to switch over), きりかえる (to change, to convert, to exchange, to renew, to replace, to switch, to switch over, to throw a switch), きりかえとき (response time, time to switch over). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

itchsway overay

   

Russian 

  

переход (conversion, crosswalk, escape, jump, junction, pasage, transiting, transition, trek). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zameniti (commute, exchange, fill in, mistake, replace, substitute, supersede, supplant, switch). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

trastrocar (confuse, invert, reverse, transform), conmutar (commute, switch), cambio (adjustment, alteration, barter, break, change, changing, chop, conjugation, conversion, corrosion, deflection, development, deviation, dislocation, displacement, distortion, do I change, evolution, exchange, gear, interchange, part exchange, shift, small change, swap, switch, swop, the change, variety, veer). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

dцnmek (be flipped over). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

переходити (descend, devolve, move about, move around, overgo, overpass, proceed, verge, vest), перемикати (commute). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Switch Over

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-o-r-s-t-v-w"

-2 letters: cheviots, cowrites, evictors, switcher, vortices, worthies.

-3 letters: cheviot, cithers, coheirs, corvets, costive, coverts, cowiest, cowries, cowrite, erotics, evictor, hectors, heriots, heroics, hoister, ostrich, richest, rochets, rotches, shortie, showier, swither, thrives, tochers, torches, troches, vectors, victors, voicers, witches, withers, writhes.

-4 letters: cestoi, cherts, chiros, chives, choirs, chores, chowse, citers, cither, civets, coheir, corset, corves.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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