a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
2.
a place along a coast in which ships may take refuge from storms; harbor.
3.
Also called port of entry.Law. any place where persons and merchandise are allowed to pass, by water or land, into and out of a country and where customs officers are stationed to inspect or appraise imported goods.
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a geographical area that forms a harbor: the largest port on the eastern seaboard.
a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used esp. in whipping or disciplining.
2.
an act of whipping or beating with or as with such an object; a stroke, lash, or whisking movement.
3.
a slender growing shoot, as of a plant.
4.
a hairpiece consisting of a bunch or tress of long hair or some substitute, fastened together at one end and worn by women to supplement their own hair.
5.
Electricity. a device for turning on or off or directing an electric current or for making or breaking a circuit.
6.
Railroads. a track structure for diverting moving trains or rolling stock from one track to another, commonly consisting of a pair of movable rails.
7.
a turning, shifting, or changing: a switch of votes to another candidate.
8.
Bridge. a change to a suit other than the one played or bid previously.
9.
Basketball. a maneuver in which two teammates on defense shift assignments so that each guards the opponent usually guarded by the other.
10.
a tuft of hair at the end of the tail of some animals, as of the cow or lion.
–verb (used with object)
11.
to whip or beat with a switch or the like; lash: He switched the boy with a cane.
12.
to move, swing, or whisk (a cane, a fishing line, etc.) with a swift, lashing stroke.
13.
to shift or exchange: The two girls switched their lunch boxes.
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to turn, shift, or divert: to switch conversation from a painful subject.
15.
Electricity. to connect, disconnect, or redirect (an electric circuit or the device it serves) by operating a switch (often fol. by off or on): I switched on a light.
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Railroads.
a.
to move or transfer (a train, car, etc.) from one set of tracks to another.
b.
to drop or add (cars) or to make up (a train).
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Movies,Television. to shift rapidly from one camera to another in order to change camera angles or shots.
–verb (used without object)
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to strike with or as with a switch.
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to change direction or course; turn, shift, or change.
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to exchange or replace something with another: He used to smoke this brand of cigarettes, but he switched.
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to move or sway back and forth, as a cat's tail.
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to be shifted, turned, etc., by means of a switch.
23.
Basketball. to execute a switch.
24.
Bridge. to lead a card of a suit different from the suit just led by oneself or one's partner.
—Idiom
25.
asleep at the switch, Informal. failing to perform one's duty, missing an opportunity, etc., because of negligence or inattention: He lost the contract because he was asleep at the switch.
Calendar of 2003 The Socialist Lula (Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva) takes office as president of Brazil.
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