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Definition: Switching |
SwitchingNoun1. The act of changing one thing or position for another; "his switch on abortion cost him the election". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "switching" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
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Business | A)financial operation consisting of buying and selling on different markets with the purpose of taking advantage of the differences in prices quoted; b)the changing of funds from one or more securities to other securities in order to protect the capital. Source: European Union. (references) |
Census | The name for a 1990 census disclosure avoidance procedure. Called the confidentiality edit for Census 2000. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The process of establishing a transmission path from a particular inlet to a particular outlet of a set of inlets and outlets. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Action of operating the switch of an electric circuit so as to connect, disconnect or divert. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Finance | Is selling one security and purchasing another to improve yield, strengthen a portfolio position or enhance the prospects for price appreciation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | The movement of railway vehicles to position or stable them, or to make up or split up train formations. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SwitchingSynonyms: shift (n), switch (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Too close for missles, I'm switching to guns. (Top Gun; writing credit: Ehud Yonay; Jim Cash) Right after dawn, all switching tracks and trains in the area will be bombed. (The Train; writing credit: Rose Vall; Franklin Coen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Switching Sleepers (1926) | |
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 | Coal miners switching motor. Note live wires. The "Patch," Chaplin, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Detail of switching engine in yards at Big Spring, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cicero, Illinois. Switching cars with a diesel switch engine at the Clyde yard of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Switching a train with a diesel switch engine on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Blue Island, Illinois. Switching a train with a diesel switch engine on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bensenville, Illinois. Switching carloads of pipe for the "Big Inch" pipeline, for transfer to eastern railroads by the Chicago, Milwaukeem Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The German Government undertakes to carry out all measures which shall be required of it in order to assure that all the making-up and switching of trains arriving at or departing from Kehl, whether for the right bank or the left bank of the Rhine, shall be carried on in the best conditions possible. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | For this reason, a woman's doctor may advise switching to other medications during pregnancy. (references) | |
Therefore, patients should always check with their doctors before switching to a generic version of their medication. (references) | ||
The similarity of the NF1 protein to GAP proteins suggests that the NF1 protein may have a similar switching role in the development of neurofibromas. (references) | ||
Business | Demand for Switching equipment, central offices and AIN equipment is also growing. (references) | |
This was particularly the case between switching systems and networks of different regions. (references) | ||
These companies are the key suppliers of both base station systems and mobile switching centers. (references) | ||
Economic History | Armenia | Modern switching equipment is being installed in Yerevan. (references) |
Russia | Local landline services are concentrating on data communications and digital switching upgrades. (references) | |
India | The entry of private sector basic and cellular services has created plenty of opportunity for switching suppliers. (references) | |
Human Rights | South Africa | This process includes electronically storing the fingerprints and picture of the accused, which assists authorities in minimizing the incidence of mistaken identity or deliberate identity switching by detainees, thereby limiting the chances of escape. (references) |
Worker Rights | Bahrain | Amendments to the Labor Law passed in 1993 stiffened the penalties for job switching to include jail sentences of up to 6 months for the sponsor of every illegally sponsored worker; however, sponsors have not received jail sentences. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SUFFRAGE, n. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. Refusal to do so has the bad name of "incivism." The incivilian, however, cannot be properly arraigned for his crime, for there is no legitimate accuser. If the accuser is himself guilty he has no standing in the court of opinion; if not, he profits by the crime, for A's abstention from voting gives greater weight to the vote of B. By female suffrage is meant the right of a woman to vote as some man tells her to. It is based on female responsibility, which is somewhat limited. The woman most eager to jump out of her petticoat to assert her rights is first to jump back into it when threatened with a switching for misusing them. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Switching" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 83.71% of the time. "Switching" is used about 797 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 83.71% | 667 | 9,857 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.27% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.52% | 52 | 47,145 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.38% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (common) | 0.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 797 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Advanced Switching Communications, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "switching": automatic protection switching ♦ BB switching array ♦ BB switching network ♦ broadband switching array ♦ broadband switching matrix ♦ broadband switching network ♦ broadband switching system ♦ business switching system ♦ central office switching system ♦ circuit switching ♦ customer switching system ♦ data switching exchange ♦ demand assignment signaling and switching ♦ demand assignment signalling and switching ♦ digital switching element ♦ electronic switching system ♦ EMX cellular switching system ♦ Euronet Switching Protocol 20 ♦ Immunoglobulin Class Switching ♦ label switching ♦ label Switching Router ♦ main switching contacts ♦ message switching ♦ mobile service switching center ♦ mobile service switching centre ♦ mobile services switching centre ♦ mobile switching center ♦ mobile switching centre ♦ mobile telephone switching center ♦ mobile telephone switching centre ♦ mobile telephone switching office ♦ MOS switching transistor ♦ multiprotocol Label Switching ♦ name service switching ♦ nodal Switching System ♦ packet switching ♦ protection ratio against switching impulses ♦ remote switching system ♦ remote switching unit ♦ Strowger switching system ♦ switching engine ♦ switching hub ♦ switching MOST ♦ switching network ♦ switching off ♦ switching on ♦ switching operation ♦ switching power supply ♦ switching stage ♦ switching threshold ♦ switching yard ♦ to immobilise switching or sectioning equipment ♦ to immobilize switching or sectioning equipment ♦ torn tape switching center ♦ unattended switching system ♦ VC switching node ♦ virtual circuit switching node ♦ virtual switching point ♦ visited mobile services switching centre ♦ wideband switching matrix ♦ wideband switching network. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "switching": switching-off, switching-points. | |
Ending with "switching": code-switching. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "switching"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 开关 (SW, switch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sporskifte (lane-direction control, points, reverse flow operation, switch, switching off, tidal flow, turning off, turnout, two-way working), skifte (operating, shift), voldgift (arbitration), udløse (operating, to open, to trip), rangertjeneste (shunting, shunting operations), rangering (shunting), opkobling, omskiftning, omskifte (operating), omplacering (arbitrage, arbitration, redeployment, switch), kobling (clutch), koble (to couple), arbitrage (arbitrage, arbitration, switch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | scheidsrechterlijke uitspraak (arbitration), schakelen (switch, turn on), wissel (bill of exchange, draft), rangering (shunting), rangeren (man"uvre, maneuver, manoeuvre), rangeerdienst (shunting, shunting operations), rangeerbeweging (shunting), omschakeling (adaptation, adjustment), omschakelen (commute), in-uitschakeling (operating), arbitrage (arbitration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vaihtoliike (operating), välitys (agency, mediation, medium, transmission), välimiesmenettely (arbitration), kytkentä (configuration, connection, coupling, coupling phase, lead, linkage, linking, operating, twinning), järjesteleminen (shunting), arbitraatio (arbitration), arbitraasi (arbitrage, arbitration, arbitration of exchange, switch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | service de manoeuvre, tirer, manoeuvrer (switch), manoeuvre (switching operation), déclenchement, commutation, changement (swing, switch), arbitrage (switch), aiguillage (switch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schaltung (circuit, gear change, gearshift, hookup, hook-up, set-up, shift, wiring), schaltend (toggling, turning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χειρισμός (manipulation), διατροπή, διαιτησία (arbiter, arbitrage, arbitration, refereeing, umpiring), διακοπή (abortion, adjournment, break, breather, disconnection, discontinuance, interception, intermission, interrupt, interruption, pause, recess, respite, severance, vacation), διάρθρωση αμαξοστοιχίας (shunting), αναστροφή (inversion, retroversion), ελιγμός (manoeuvre, ploy), "μανούβρα", εναλλαγή (alternation, alternative, commutation, interchange, stagger), όδευση (routing, travel), χειρισμός των κλειδιών των σιδηροδρομικών γραμμών (switching off, turning off), υπηρεσία ελιγμών (shunting, shunting operations), πρόκριση συναλλαγής ή συναλλάγματος (arbitrage, arbitration, switch), μεταλλαγή (alteration, mutation, permutation, transformation, transmutation), μεταβίβαση (conduction, conveyance, devolution, negotiability, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal), μεταγωγή (convection, transport, transportation), σύσταση αμαξοστοιχίας (assemblying and disassemblying of consists, consist, shunting, train formation), επιλογή (choice, option, selection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מתו'. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | helyi átkapcsolás (cross-office switching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | smistamento (shunt, shunting, sorting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | スーパー受信機 (soup, souvenir, souvenir shop, Sufi, suite, superheterodyne receiver, superviser, sweep, sweeper, sweet, sweet corn, sweet home, sweet melon, sweet pea, sweet potato, sweet spot, sweetheart, Swiss, Swissrama, switch, switchback, switch-hitter, Switzerland), 切替え (conversion, exchange, replacement, switchover), 切替 (conversion, exchange, replacement, switchover), 切換 (conversion, exchange, replacement, switchover), 切り換え (conversion, exchange, replacement, switchover), 切り替え (conversion, exchange, replacement, switchover). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きりかえ (conversion, exchange, replacement, switchover), せったい (conversion, exchange, reception, replacement, serving, switchover, welcome), スイッチング . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 엇"꾸기. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itchingsway serviço de manobras (shunting, shunting operations), troca (commutation, exchange, passage, permutation, reciprocation, shift, swap, swop, transposition), manobra (evolution, handling, maneuver, roll, shunt), comutação (commutation), arbitragem cambial (arbitrage, arbitration, switch), arbitragem (arbitrage, arbitrament, arbitration, refereeing), agulhagem (switching off, turning off). (various references) garã de triaj (railway yard, switching yard). (various references) переключать переключение. (various references) servicio de maniobra (shunting, shunting operations), traspuesta (backyard, escape, rise, transposition), remolque (mobile home, tow, towing, trailer), maniobra de las agujas (switching off, turning off), maniobra (dodge, handiwork, handling, maneuver, maneuvering, manoeuvre, manoeuvring, move, opening gambit), conmutación (commutation), clasificación de vagones (shunting), arbitraje (arbitrage, arbitrament, arbitration). (various references) växlande (fluid, patchy, varied). (various references) manevra (maneuver, manoeuvre, movement, sham battle, shunting), makas değiştirme (shunting), elektrik verme, akım verme. (various references) комутація (commutation), перемикання (shunt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Switching" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: skitching, switchings, Swithen, Swithins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "switching" (pronounced swi"khing) |
| 5 | -w i" kh i ng | twitching, witching. |
| 4 | -i" kh i ng | ditching, enriching, hitching, itching, pitching, snitching, stitching. |
| 3 | -kh i ng | approaching, arching, attaching, beaching, belching, bleaching, branching, breaching, broaching, bunching, catching, clinching, clutching, coaching, crouching, crunching, dispatching, drenching, encroaching, entrenching, etching, fetching, flinching, hatching, impeaching, inching, latching, launching, leaching, lunching, lurching, lynching, marching, matching, mulching, munching, overarching, overreaching, patching, pinching, poaching, preaching, punching, quenching, ranching, reaching, researching, retouching, retrenching, scorching, scratching, screeching, searching, sketching, slouching, snatching, squelching, stanching, stretching, teaching, torching, touching, unflinching, vouching, watching, wrenching. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: witchings. | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-h-i-i-n-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: itchings, whisting, whitings, witching. | |
-2 letters: chitins, histing, insight, itching, whiting, wishing, wisting, withing, withins. | |
-3 letters: chints, chitin, citing, icings, nights, siting, snitch, switch, things, wights, winish, wising, within, witing. | |
-4 letters: chins, chits, hints, icing, intis, nighs, night, sight, stich, sting, swing, swith, thing, thins, tings, twigs, twins, whigs, whins, whist, whits, wight, winch, wings. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-h-i-i-n-s-t-w" | |
+4 letters: switchbacking, whipstitching. | |
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