Crossword clues for switching
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Switch \Switch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Switched; p. pr. & vb. n. Switching.]
To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.
--Chapman.To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.
To trim, as, a hedge. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.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.
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.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 a beating by means of a switch (twig or twigs). 2 movement of an animal's tail 3 the transference of an investment from one fund to another 4 the movement of a locomotive from one track to another 5 change from one product / service provider to another vb. (present participle of switch English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Switching is the first ever Danish interactive movie directed by Morten Schjødt, produced by Oncotype and released in 2003. It was financed by, and in cooperation with, the Danish Film Institute, with the support of the "Development Fund of the Ministry of Culture", the MEDIA Programme of the European Union and the DFI Film Workshop. It is distributed by SF FILM A/S.
Switching is what is done by a switch.
- Electronic switching
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Packet switching, a digital networking communications methodology.
- LAN switching, packet switching on Local Area Networks.
- Telephone switching, the activity performed by a telephone exchange.
- a synonym for shunting in rail transport.
Switching may also refer to:
- Switching (ecology), a pattern of predation where predators select food based on its abundance.
- Switching (film), a 2003 Danish interactive film.
- Immunoglobulin class switching, an immunological mechanism that changes the type of antibody produced by B cells.
- Task switching (psychology), an experimental research paradigm used in cognitive psychology.
- changing between a dominant and submissive role in BDSM.
Usage examples of "switching".
It was an antiphony of responses, switching the students from one teaching image to the other, and from one timber of voice to another, that kept the students attention.
Switching the Berretta to his left hand, hegroped for the banister with his right.
Switching the Berretta to his left hand, he groped for the banister with his right.
The existence of such microcircuits suggests that intelligence may be the result not only of high brain-to-body-mass ratios but also of an abundance of specialized switching elements in the brain.
Wizards also can track these registration numbers and addresses, so they know when misbehaving users are coming and going despite their switching usernames and avatars.
He had his multimeter on the edge of the control panel and was busily switching around the probe leads.
But it was also spectacular, part of the grandness of a sweeping event, like the vivid scene in the switching yard or the people trudging across the snowy overpass with children, food, belongings, a tragic army of the dispossessed.
In essence, it wrenches its target apart by switching from tractor to presser mode in microsecond bursts.
Switching on the infra-red, they began slowly to climb in single file, the bulldozer going first, the minder cumbrously following, then the quarrier with the operator and the penner aboard, and the two tractors bringing up the rear.
Switching on the infra-red, they began slowly to climb in single file,through the dark, the bulldozer going first, the field-minder cumbrously following, then the quarrier with the operator and the penner aboard, and the tractors bringing up the rear.
Ryan could see, by switching the scope to high-mag, that the land was seamed with a maze of narrow draws and arroyos.
It was when the septet became an octet that the group finally matured, and the new, fuller sound was due to Hank Crawford switching from baritone to alto and the presence of the remarkable Leroy Cooper on baritone.
Other than the purpose she had already served in switching places with whatever creature the magic had set free from the Forbidding, what reason could the Straken Lord have for taking an interest in her?
Here stood Ocean Switcher and Mountain Switcher, each with a team of assistants, each team holding its heavy switching rail.
Whatever the truth of the matter, the Ocean Switcher of that time made a decision and pegged the switching rail to favor the easterly car.