switch

/swɪtʃ/

意味: スイッチ、切り替え

例文: Aki flipped the light switch.
　　  アキは電気のスイッチを押した。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: light switch(電灯のスイッチ), switch off(スイッチを切る), switch gears(ギアを切り替える)

定義: 物や電気の流れを切り替えるための装置やボタンのことです。また、何かを別のものに変えることや、考え方や行動を変えることも指します。

switchは約30,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
Noun: an event in which one thing is substituted for another
Noun: hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
Noun: railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
Noun: a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
Noun: a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
Noun: the act of changing one thing or position for another
Verb: change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
Verb: exchange or give (something) in exchange for
Verb: lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
Verb: make a shift in or exchange of
Verb: cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
Verb: flog with or as if with a flexible rod
Verb: reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

Noun: the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood
Noun: his switch on abortion cost him the election
Verb: switch to a different brand of beer
Verb: She switched psychiatrists
Verb: The car changed lanes
Verb: First Joe led; then we switched
Verb: switch on the light
Verb: throw the lever

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): alternate, change, change over, electric switch, electrical switch, exchange, flip, flip-flop, interchange, permutation, replacement, shift, substitution, swap, switch, switch over, switching, swop, tack, throw, trade, transposition

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): basketball play, change, change by reversal, control, engage, exchange, flog, hairpiece, instrument of punishment, railroad track, variation

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): about-face, accelerate, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, activate, adjust, adulteration, affect, afro-wig, age, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, allomerism, alter, alteration, americanize, angulate, animize, antiquate, antique, archaize, arterialize, ash, assimilate, automatize, awaken, barb, barbarize, barter, bestialize, better, birch, blind, blister, blunt, blur, boil, break, break down, brighten, bring, broad gauge, brutalize, bubble, business cycle, calcify, camp, cangue, capture, cash, cat, cause to sleep, centralize, change intensity, change of direction, change of integrity, change of magnitude, change of shape, change of state, change taste, charge, chasten, check, circularize, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clot, cloud, coarsen, cohere, color, commercialize, communization, communize, commutate, commute, complicate, condense, confuse, constitutionalize, contaminate, conventionalize, conversion, convert, cook, cool, correct, corrupt, counterchange, cowhide, crack, cruise control, cry, cucking stool, customize, daily variation, damage, darken, de-emphasize, deaden, deaminate, decarboxylate, decelerate, decentralize, decimalization, decimalize, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demotion, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, depersonalize, depolarize, desecrate, desensitize, destabilize, desynchronize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, deviation, devilize, dial, digitize, dinge, dirty, disable, discolor, disharmonize, disintegrate, disk controller, disorder, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, diurnal variation, diversification, diversify, dizzy, domesticate, dope, downshift, draw, dry, dull, dynamize, ease up, edit, embrittle, empty, emulsify, enable, end, entail, equal, eroticize, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, even, excite, extend, exteriorize, falsify, fatten, feminize, fertilize, fill, filtration, fix, flagellate, flatten, flocculate, flux, freeze, frenchify, full, gantlet, gelatinize, give-and-go, glamorize, glorify, governor, habituate, handwheel, harmonize, harshen, heat, horsewhip, hue, humanize, humble, hydrogenate, immaterialize, immortalize, inactivate, incandesce, increase, indispose, industrialize, inflate, inform, inseminate, instrument of torture, insulate, intensify, interchange, internationalize, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, islamize, isomerize, joystick, laicize, leather, legitimate, lend, liberalize, lifehack, lift, liquefy, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, magnetize, make, mark, masculinize, mechanize, metamorphose, metrification, militarize, mince, mix, morph, motion, move, movement, muddy, mythologize, narrow gauge, nationalization, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, nick, normalize, obfuscate, obscure, occidentalize, officialize, opacify, opalize, opsonize, orientalize, ossify, outmode, oxidize, oxygenize, paddle, paganize, pall, parallel, patent, permute, personalize, pick, piggyback, pillory, plasticize, poison, polarize, politicize, port, professionalize, promotion, proof, prostrate, purify, put, radicalize, ransom, rarefy, rationalize, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, redeem, reduction, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, regulator, relax, remodel, restore, revert, revolutionize, ride, right, ripen, rollover, romanticize, round off, rusticate, sanitize, saponify, satisfaction, saturate, sauce, schematize, scramble, secularization, sell, sensitize, sentimentalize, set, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shift, shorten, siding, simplify, slenderize, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvate, spice, spike, sputter, stabilize, stain, standard gauge, steepen, stiffen, still, stocks, straighten, strengthen, string, substitute, substitution, suburbanize, supercharge, supple, suspend, sweeten, switch, switch over, symmetrize, synchronize, tame, tender, tense, territorialize, thicken, think, throw, tide, tighten, tone down, touch, toupee, trade, transaminate, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmute, transpose, turn, turn back, turn the tables, turning, uglify, unclutter, undo, uniformize, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, untie, untune, updating, urbanize, validate, valve, variation, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, vicissitude, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulgarise, warm, weaken, weaponize, wet, widen, wig, worsen

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): back, birch, break, cane, commutator, cut, cutout, diphthongize, ferule, ignition switch, leap, push button, rattan, selector, shift, surf, switch off, switch on, switcheroo, three-way switch, time-switch, toggle switch, transition, veer

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: exchange, flip-flop, replace, shift, substitute, swap, switch, switcher, switching, swop, tack, trade

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: technology

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

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Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

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