switch – English noun declension

English noun forms of switch

Noun: switch
Singularswitch
Pluralswitches

Sample Sentences

  • After many complications and sudden switches of career and identity for all […] they end up selling out for fame and money, and leave the boardwalk for good. [1985 December 7, Nicholas Deutsch, “Epstein on the Beach (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 21, page 15:]
  • Wenger sent on Cesc Fabregas and Van Persie to try to finish Leeds off and with 14 minutes left the switch paid off as the Spaniard sent Bendtner away down the right and his wonderful curling cross was headed in by Van Persie at the far post. [2011 January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2012:]
  • This is a result of a switch from High Street to online retailing, requiring consumer goods to be delivered to the door from large-scale distribution parks that have sufficient traffic to justify a rail terminal. [2024 January 10, 'Industry Insider', “Success built on liberalisation and market freedom”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 69:]
  • Their mother would walk out into the yard and cut a switch from a tree and beat him—beat him, it seemed to Florence, until any other boy would have fallen down dead; […] [1953, James Baldwin, “Florence's Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:]
  • "A proper switch is a slim, flexible branch off a tree or a bush. A switch applied to the buttocks stings fiercely. It may leave red marks or bruises, but it causes no lasting damage.." [2007, Jeffrey W. Hamilton, Raising Godly Children in a Wicked World, Lulu.com, page 15:]
  • Use the /b switch to specify black-and-white printing.
  • [2004, Curt, “Can I use IF statements, and still use switches?”, in microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields (Usenet):]
  • Ideally, if one of your ladies happens to be a switch (or would be willing to switch for this scene), I would love to be able to inflict a little "revenge tickling" as well, as part of a scenario. [2012, Terri-Jean Bedford, Bondage Bungalow Fantasies, page 99:]
  • The way that switch brrt, I know he dyin' (Oh my, oh my God). 6-7, I just bipped right on the highway (Bip, bip). [2024 December 1, “Doot Doot (6 7)” (track 27), in Zombie Love Kensington Paradise, performed by Skrilla:]
  • Once a sign of surrender and lead protection, the backwards kick plays a role in one of the most enterprising, enjoyable phases of the modern game: the switch. In an era where zones, presses, zone-presses and floods are ever present, the switch breaks through these tactical innovations like a hot knife through butter. [2023 July 20, Cody Atkinson, Sean Lawson, “How the Brisbane Lions are switching directions in the AFL to achieve attacking success”, in ABC News, Sydney, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2023, retrieved 27 May 2025:]
  • Switches only happen once every couple weeks for us, but they're quite sudden when they happen.

Etymology

Perhaps from Middle Dutch swijch (“twig”), first attested in c. 1592. The mechanical device for altering the direction of something sense is first attested in c. 1797, pertaining to pivoted rails on minecart railways, which were once wooden.

Verbs referencing "switch"

Dutch Nouns switch, Finnish Nouns switch, Icelandic Nouns sviss, German Nouns Switch.