switch on

verb

switched on; switching on; switches on

: to turn on (something) by turning or pushing a button or moving a switch, lever, etc.

I switched on the TV.

She switched the light on.

Examples of switch on in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The footage was captured on July 24, according to an ESA statement accompanying the image, just two weeks after SMILE's ultraviolet imager was switched on, offering an exciting first taste of the science to come. — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2026

The team achieved that by making each implant’s transistor switch on only when the incoming pulse crosses a specific threshold. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 30 Sep. 2026

This time the message went off-roading, traveling through the animal’s tissue as a faint electrical pulse and switching on an implant that jolted a nerve in that leg. — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2026

The team tested whether the hardware could distinguish temporal patterns using four consecutive input signals that could each be switched on or off. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for switch on

• anton
• argon
• axon
• baronne
• baryon
• baton
• boron
• buisson
• bygone
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• chiffon