Switch off is a more specific form of turn off. You can use turn off for anything, but switch off is generally only used for electronics. The usage likely comes from the electrical engineering term: The mechanism of a switch removes or restores the conducting path in a …

2014年10月18日 · to switch gears, to shift gears. are often (too often for my taste, but that is a different matter) used to announce a switch from one topic to another in an oral presentation (e.g., a scientific talk). As far as vehicles are concerned, …

Type A is where the switch remains stucked indefinitely at a lower position even after releasing your fingers from it and type B is a push( downwards of course)- to -on type where the switch bounces back( upwards of course) to its original position after the finger is released.

2012年1月28日 · Turn out in turn out the lights is idiomatic.. Turn off is a general verb for turning off almost any device.. The meaning of both is equally the same and there isn't any difference at all, but non-native speakers may not be aware of the idiomatic one and therefore may find it …

2021年10月20日 · This is what a 1200 amp light switch looks like. The high-voltage contactors open as the ac voltage crosses over at 0 Volts so they don't spark, but that means they have to open really fast with a big thunk.

I often see "replace with" and "replace by" used interchangeably, but this doesn't sound right to me: I replaced that component by this one. I would use "with" in such a sentence. "By" only seems

The phenomenon you’re looking at is called sequence of tense.It is the topic of substantial research by linguists, but, in a nutshell, past tense matrix verbs (like realized) can take subordinate clauses with either past tense or present tense; however, the nature of the complement plays a substantial role in determining which, if either, is more appropriate.

In your first sentence, you switch from past to present tense where the second clause is a temporal qualifier, which is not allowed. "...he comes over quite often, he and I got on quite well when we see each other so not much issue there." A more extreme example of this not being right might be, 'I was tired when I am hungry'.

2011年4月11日 · Is there a term for a drastic switching of emotions? Yes, indeed. Mood swing is one such term:. mood swing an abrupt and apparently unaccountable change of mood.

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