switch on

phrasal 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

Uber has launched a new safety preferences section that gathers all of Uber’s safety tools in one place and lets users schedule them to switch on automatically. —Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 11 Apr. 2024

Volume, audio mode and tuning are controlled by rocker switches on the rear of the steering wheel cross bars. —Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2024

Sam Fetters These events could include mutations in dividing fetal cells, or something that causes certain genes to be switched on or off. —Jon Hamilton, NPR, 4 Apr. 2024

There’s also a physical shutter switch on the right edge, which activates and deactivates an E-shutter for the webcam. —PCMAG, 31 Mar. 2024

The jets have a switch on the back of the pilot seats that can be used to move the seats forward and backward. —Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024

The switching of two products from prescription-only (Rx) to over-the-counter last year hinted that there may be a wave of similar switches on the horizon, and ones in therapeutic categories previously off limits to OTC availability. —Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024

When night fell, Boyko switched on a thermal camera, and the black figures dying in the white snow became white figures on black. —Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024

This was years before WhatsApp switched on end-to-end encryption in 2016, and before Signal—now widely considered the most private end-to-end encrypted messaging platform—even existed, Apple quietly led the way with that security feature, baking it into a core piece of the Apple ecosystem. —Andy Greenberg Andrew Couts, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024