switchingn.

/ˈswɪtʃɪŋ/

Etymology: < switch v. + -ing suffix¹.

1. A beating with a switch; a flogging; the striking of an object with a switch.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with whip or scourging > instance of

swepinga1300

stripec1485

flagellation1490

whipping1566

whipping-cheer1578

to have a rod under (also at) one's girdle1580

switchinga1640

horsewhipping1829

rawhiding1848

bashing1877

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > blow struck with an object or instrument > with something pliant

lashc1330

lashingc1400

jerking1552

jerk1555

whipping1577

slive1589

whissc1590

scutch1611

scutching1611

switchinga1640

cut1787

sliver1806

switch1809

welt1863

score1882

a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Faire Maide of Inne i. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eeeeeee2^v/2 The switching him duld him [sc. a horse].

1658 F. Osborne Mem. Reigns Elizabeth & James Index in Wks. (1673) 23 A Character of Philip Earl of Mongomery; How patiently he took his Switching by Ramsey at Croydon.

1866 Morning Star 20 Aug. 5/2 If he chooses to profit by the switching which he has received he will make for himself a deservedly great reputation.

1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. xii. 377 The signal..being the switching of his bedroom window-pane with a long wand.

1904 S. E. White Forest xiv You stumble, you break through the bush, you shut your eyes to avoid sharp switchings.

2. Angling. (See switch v. 3.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > angling > type of casting

whipping1653

grounder1847

switching1867

flogging1886

roll cast1897

1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling ix. 285 Switching..is a species of cast that is made when there are high banks or rocks at the angler's back, so that he cannot send his line behind him.

1893 J. Grant in Westm. Gaz. 25 Feb. 8/1 I can cast a long line overhead, yet by switching I can cast farther.

3. The trimming of a hedge, etc. by cutting off projecting branches or twigs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [noun]

hedgingc1380

pleachinga1398

plashing1495

tining1522

side-haying1610

switching1812

splashing1869

1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 44 Hedges..ought to be cut into the shape of what is called a hog-main, i.e. brought to a point along the top, and preserved in that form by yearly switching.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 563 Switching consists of lopping off straggling branches that grow more prominently from a hedge than the rest.

a. Shunting of railway trains, etc.; connection or disconnexion ( switching onor off) of electric circuits; also figurative: see switch v. 6 – 8.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > rail travel > [noun] > operation of railways > shunting

shunting1858

shunt1862

switching1889

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > [noun] > connection or disconnection

switching1889

1889 W. H. Preece & J. Maier Telephone xxx. 461 This switch consisted of a board provided with as many spring plates as there were transmitters, and which allowed the switching on or off the batteries working the microphones.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 146 This switching off of the skin from its connection with the respiratory and placing it in relation with the portal system.

1898 H. E. Hamblen Gen. Manager's Story xii. 175 When I got there, I found four hours' switching..to get my train together.

b. Changing or transferring from one position to another; exchanging.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > exchange > [noun]

change?c1225

changingc1350

interchangingc1374

exchangec1384

permutationa1398

commutation1496

achange1530

chopping and changing1548

interchange1548

exchanging1553

promutation1560

intercourse1576

counterchange1579

chopping1581

counter-cambio?1592

interchangementa1616

commerce1631

swapping1695

barter1819

counterchanging1881

switching1904

va-et-vient1919

switch-around1981

1904 ‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing 253/1 Switching, transferring; passing to another.

1957 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1956 xxvi. 40 Precision would thus require us to distinguish three stages in diffusion: (1) switching, the alternate use of two languages, [etc.].

c. Stock Market. The purchase (or sale) of one stock, and the sale (or purchase) of another stock, at a stipulated price difference.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements

intromission1567

hedginga1631

retiring1681

partnership1704

put1718

time bargain1720

bargain for time1721

option1746

call1825

put and call1826

cornering1841

corner1853

raid1866

pooling1871

squeeze1872

call option1874

recapitalization1874

short squeeze1877

split-up1878

margin call1888

pyramid1888

profit taking1891

pyramiding1895

underwriting1895

melon-cutting1900

round turn1901

market-making1902

put-through1902

put and take1921

round trip1922

put and take1929

leverage1931

split-down1932

switching1932

give-up1934

mark to market1938

recap1940

rollover1947

downtick1954

stock split1955

traded option1955

leg1959

stock splitting1959

rollover1961

split1972

spread betting1972

unitization1974

marking-to-market1981

swap1982

telebroking1984

1932 Literary Digest 30 Jan. 49/1 (title) ‘Switching’ in a bear market.

1936 Economist 1 Feb. 248/2 The available evidence suggests that ‘switching’ has not greatly affected the past year's results. Some trusts..have increased their American holdings.

1960 Economist 15 Oct. 288/3 Buying in the gilt edged market increased..and demand from both home and continental buyers, including some switching and investment buying, remained high.

1981 Times 18 Aug. 18 The shares managed a 16p rise..with heavy switching from the ordinary into the NV.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations: spec. (a) used in switching hedges, etc., as switching-bill, switching-knife; (b) used in or for shunting on a railway, as switching-engine or -locomotive, switching-eye (see quot. a1884), switching-ground; switching yard n. = switchyard n. (a) at switch n. Compounds 2. (c) used for connecting electric circuits, as switching-plug; pertaining to the switching of electrical apparatus or electronic devices, as switching centre, switching circuit, switching speed, switching station, switching theory, switching time. Also switching angle n. Gunnery the angle between the lines of fire of the directing gun when the latter is brought to bear on the left of the new target.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > steam locomotive > used for shunting

pony engine1864

pug1872

switching-engine or -locomotive1875

switcher1882

switch-engine1896

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > line of fire > angle between lines of fire

switching angle1907

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 224 He handles the small cutting-axe and switching-knife with the force and neatness with which a dragoon wields his sabre.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 563 This operation is performed with the switching-bill.

1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xiii. 64 The Scolopax Wilsonii of the United States makes a switching noise whilst descending rapidly to the earth.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Switching-engine, a yard-engine, or donkey-engine, used about a station or depot for making up trains or moving engines which have not steam up.

1882 Sun 14 May 6/6 A large freight-engine with tender..had been at switching work.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 876/2 Switching Eye (Railway), a cast-iron socket on the corner of a freight-car, to which a chain or push-bar may be applied by an engine on an adjoining track. Switching-in Plug (Electricity), a plug having its two brass sides insulated from each other by a strip of hard rubber [etc.].

1894 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Chickasaw Nation) 28 Mar. 1/8 There came very near being a disastrous collision..in the upper switching yards of the Santa Fe.

1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous viii. 179 The familiar noise of a switching-engine coughing to herself in a freight-yard.

1907 H. A. Bethell Mod. Guns 173 For large angles..the switching angle must be calculated or measured..with the field plotter.

1939 H. J. Reich Theory & Applic. Electron Tubes xii. 459 Two high~vacuum amplifier tubes..are alternately overbiased by the voltage drop through the anode resistors of the switching circuit.

1959 J. M. Pettit Electronic Switching iii. 73 The switching speed of a triode in ordinary circuits is impaired by capacitances rather than by transit time of electrons in the tube.

1960 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. XIII. 357/1 The bulk of switching theory is concerned with circuits made of binary (two-valued) devices, since these are most common.

1960 R. S. Ledley Digital Computer & Control Engin. xxi. 697 The value of Rc can be estimated by means of considerations concerning the switching time of the core, the time τ required to switch or flip a core.

1962 B.B.C. Handbk. 113 The EBU is responsible for the coordination of the programme, legal, and technical aspects of Eurovision, and operates the switching centre in Brussels.

1968 ‘E. McBain’ Fuzz xii. 188 Into this substation ran high~voltage supply cables (‘They're called feeders,’ Ahmad said) from a switching station.

1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 116/3 Progress has been made in reducing the time cars spend in switching yards.

1973 Times 30 Oct. 1/2 Engineers who man power stations and switching centres will refuse to turn out if a breakdown or other difficulty arises while they are off duty.

1977 Sci. Amer. Sept. 212/3 Switching theory, which was developed to help design the relay-operated switching networks of automatic telephone systems, provided guides that enabled a designer to formulate a network with the minimum number of relays for accomplishing some given logical operation.

1978 Sci. Amer. Mar. 61/2 (caption) Supervisory and switching circuits in the central office connect the two sets for the conversation and disconnect them when the call is over.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	switching
释义	switchingn. /ˈswɪtʃɪŋ/ Etymology: < switch v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. A beating with a switch; a flogging; the striking of an object with a switch. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with whip or scourging > instance of swepinga1300 stripec1485 flagellation1490 whipping1566 whipping-cheer1578 to have a rod under (also at) one's girdle1580 switchinga1640 horsewhipping1829 rawhiding1848 bashing1877 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > blow struck with an object or instrument > with something pliant lashc1330 lashingc1400 jerking1552 jerk1555 whipping1577 slive1589 whissc1590 scutch1611 scutching1611 switchinga1640 cut1787 sliver1806 switch1809 welt1863 score1882 a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Faire Maide of Inne i. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eeeeeee2^v/2 The switching him duld him [sc. a horse]. 1658 F. Osborne Mem. Reigns Elizabeth & James Index in Wks. (1673) 23 A Character of Philip Earl of Mongomery; How patiently he took his Switching by Ramsey at Croydon. 1866 Morning Star 20 Aug. 5/2 If he chooses to profit by the switching which he has received he will make for himself a deservedly great reputation. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. xii. 377 The signal..being the switching of his bedroom window-pane with a long wand. 1904 S. E. White Forest xiv You stumble, you break through the bush, you shut your eyes to avoid sharp switchings. 2. Angling. (See switch v. 3.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > angling > type of casting whipping1653 grounder1847 switching1867 flogging1886 roll cast1897 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling ix. 285 Switching..is a species of cast that is made when there are high banks or rocks at the angler's back, so that he cannot send his line behind him. 1893 J. Grant in Westm. Gaz. 25 Feb. 8/1 I can cast a long line overhead, yet by switching I can cast farther. 3. The trimming of a hedge, etc. by cutting off projecting branches or twigs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [noun] hedgingc1380 pleachinga1398 plashing1495 tining1522 side-haying1610 switching1812 splashing1869 1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 44 Hedges..ought to be cut into the shape of what is called a hog-main, i.e. brought to a point along the top, and preserved in that form by yearly switching. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 563 Switching consists of lopping off straggling branches that grow more prominently from a hedge than the rest. 4. a. Shunting of railway trains, etc.; connection or disconnexion ( switching onor off) of electric circuits; also figurative: see switch v. 6 – 8. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > [noun] > operation of railways > shunting shunting1858 shunt1862 switching1889 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > [noun] > connection or disconnection switching1889 1889 W. H. Preece & J. Maier Telephone xxx. 461 This switch consisted of a board provided with as many spring plates as there were transmitters, and which allowed the switching on or off the batteries working the microphones. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 146 This switching off of the skin from its connection with the respiratory and placing it in relation with the portal system. 1898 H. E. Hamblen Gen. Manager's Story xii. 175 When I got there, I found four hours' switching..to get my train together. b. Changing or transferring from one position to another; exchanging. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > [noun] change?c1225 changingc1350 interchangingc1374 exchangec1384 permutationa1398 commutation1496 achange1530 chopping and changing1548 interchange1548 exchanging1553 promutation1560 intercourse1576 counterchange1579 chopping1581 counter-cambio?1592 interchangementa1616 commerce1631 swapping1695 barter1819 counterchanging1881 switching1904 va-et-vient1919 switch-around1981 1904 ‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing 253/1 Switching, transferring; passing to another. 1957 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1956 xxvi. 40 Precision would thus require us to distinguish three stages in diffusion: (1) switching, the alternate use of two languages, [etc.]. c. Stock Market. The purchase (or sale) of one stock, and the sale (or purchase) of another stock, at a stipulated price difference. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements intromission1567 hedginga1631 retiring1681 partnership1704 put1718 time bargain1720 bargain for time1721 option1746 call1825 put and call1826 cornering1841 corner1853 raid1866 pooling1871 squeeze1872 call option1874 recapitalization1874 short squeeze1877 split-up1878 margin call1888 pyramid1888 profit taking1891 pyramiding1895 underwriting1895 melon-cutting1900 round turn1901 market-making1902 put-through1902 put and take1921 round trip1922 put and take1929 leverage1931 split-down1932 switching1932 give-up1934 mark to market1938 recap1940 rollover1947 downtick1954 stock split1955 traded option1955 leg1959 stock splitting1959 rollover1961 split1972 spread betting1972 unitization1974 marking-to-market1981 swap1982 telebroking1984 1932 Literary Digest 30 Jan. 49/1 (title) ‘Switching’ in a bear market. 1936 Economist 1 Feb. 248/2 The available evidence suggests that ‘switching’ has not greatly affected the past year's results. Some trusts..have increased their American holdings. 1960 Economist 15 Oct. 288/3 Buying in the gilt edged market increased..and demand from both home and continental buyers, including some switching and investment buying, remained high. 1981 Times 18 Aug. 18 The shares managed a 16p rise..with heavy switching from the ordinary into the NV. Compounds attributive and in other combinations: spec. (a) used in switching hedges, etc., as switching-bill, switching-knife; (b) used in or for shunting on a railway, as switching-engine or -locomotive, switching-eye (see quot. a1884), switching-ground; switching yard n. = switchyard n. (a) at switch n. Compounds 2. (c) used for connecting electric circuits, as switching-plug; pertaining to the switching of electrical apparatus or electronic devices, as switching centre, switching circuit, switching speed, switching station, switching theory, switching time. Also switching angle n. Gunnery the angle between the lines of fire of the directing gun when the latter is brought to bear on the left of the new target. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > steam locomotive > used for shunting pony engine1864 pug1872 switching-engine or -locomotive1875 switcher1882 switch-engine1896 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > line of fire > angle between lines of fire switching angle1907 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 224 He handles the small cutting-axe and switching-knife with the force and neatness with which a dragoon wields his sabre. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 563 This operation is performed with the switching-bill. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xiii. 64 The Scolopax Wilsonii of the United States makes a switching noise whilst descending rapidly to the earth. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Switching-engine, a yard-engine, or donkey-engine, used about a station or depot for making up trains or moving engines which have not steam up. 1882 Sun 14 May 6/6 A large freight-engine with tender..had been at switching work. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 876/2 Switching Eye (Railway), a cast-iron socket on the corner of a freight-car, to which a chain or push-bar may be applied by an engine on an adjoining track. Switching-in Plug (Electricity), a plug having its two brass sides insulated from each other by a strip of hard rubber [etc.]. 1894 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Chickasaw Nation) 28 Mar. 1/8 There came very near being a disastrous collision..in the upper switching yards of the Santa Fe. 1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous viii. 179 The familiar noise of a switching-engine coughing to herself in a freight-yard. 1907 H. A. Bethell Mod. Guns 173 For large angles..the switching angle must be calculated or measured..with the field plotter. 1939 H. J. Reich Theory & Applic. Electron Tubes xii. 459 Two high~vacuum amplifier tubes..are alternately overbiased by the voltage drop through the anode resistors of the switching circuit. 1959 J. M. Pettit Electronic Switching iii. 73 The switching speed of a triode in ordinary circuits is impaired by capacitances rather than by transit time of electrons in the tube. 1960 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. XIII. 357/1 The bulk of switching theory is concerned with circuits made of binary (two-valued) devices, since these are most common. 1960 R. S. Ledley Digital Computer & Control Engin. xxi. 697 The value of Rc can be estimated by means of considerations concerning the switching time of the core, the time τ required to switch or flip a core. 1962 B.B.C. Handbk. 113 The EBU is responsible for the coordination of the programme, legal, and technical aspects of Eurovision, and operates the switching centre in Brussels. 1968 ‘E. McBain’ Fuzz xii. 188 Into this substation ran high~voltage supply cables (‘They're called feeders,’ Ahmad said) from a switching station. 1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 116/3 Progress has been made in reducing the time cars spend in switching yards. 1973 Times 30 Oct. 1/2 Engineers who man power stations and switching centres will refuse to turn out if a breakdown or other difficulty arises while they are off duty. 1977 Sci. Amer. Sept. 212/3 Switching theory, which was developed to help design the relay-operated switching networks of automatic telephone systems, provided guides that enabled a designer to formulate a network with the minimum number of relays for accomplishing some given logical operation. 1978 Sci. Amer. Mar. 61/2 (caption) Supervisory and switching circuits in the central office connect the two sets for the conversation and disconnect them when the call is over. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2021). switchingadj. Etymology: < switch v. + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈswitching. That switches; striking as or as with a switch. switching neck (U.S.): a name for the Louisiana heron. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [adjective] > with something pliant whiskinga1529 lashing1716 slashing1863 switchinga1869 whipping1904 the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ardeidae (herons and bitterns) > member of genus Egretta (miscellaneous) gaulina1705 aigrette1772 blue heron1777 paddy1777 matuku1843 paddy bird1843 switching necka1869 a1869 T. Medwin Suggestions during Hot Weather in Catal. Autograph Lett. (H. Sotheran & Co.) (c1910) 58 Armed with a switching, cutting Rod. 1891 Auk 8 77 Ardea tricolor ruficollis (Gosse). Louisiana Heron. ‘Switching-Neck.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.a1640adj.a1869
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switchingn.

Compounds

switchingadj.