n. - sample, esp. Of cloth.

- collection of samples. [origin unknown]

—v. (-thing) bind or wrap in bandages or garments etc. —n. Bandage or wrapping. [old english]

—v. (-ving) (cause to) change direction, esp. Abruptly. —n. Swerving movement. [old english, = scour]

- —v. (-ving) (cause to) change direction, esp. Abruptly. —n. Swerving movement. [old english, = scour]

—n. - device for completing and breaking an electric circuit.

- a transfer, change-over, or deviation. B exchange.

- flexible shoot cut from a tree.

- light tapering rod.

- us railway points. —v. - (foll. By on, off) turn (an electrical device) on or off.

- change or transfer.

- exchange.

- whip or flick with a switch. switch off colloq. Cease to pay attention. [low german]

chair n. Chair with a revolving seat.

- —n. Coupling between two parts enabling one to revolve without turning the other. —v. (-ll-; us -l-) turn on or as on a swivel. [old english]

adj. (also silvan) 1 a of the woods. B having woods.

- rural. [latin silva a wood]

n. - thing regarded as typifying or representing something (white is a symbol of purity).

- mark, sign, etc. Representing an object, idea, function, or process; logo. symbolic adj. Symbolically adv. [greek sumbolon]

n. Any of various university or government officials. [greek sundikos, = advocate]

n. - grammatical arrangement of words.

- rules or analysis of this. syntactic adj. Syntactically adv. [greek, = arrangement]

—n. Language of ancient syria, western aramaic. —adj. Of or in syriac.