What's the difference between sidetrack and switch?

Sidetrack


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We're in danger of being sidetracked by a simplistic debate that suggests an emphasis on people and their responsibility somehow blames individuals and ignores the real social determinants of health and disease.
  • (2) The problem starts at school, and girls very quickly get sidetracked out of maths and physics.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Many respondents felt more girls needed to study Stem subjects at younger ages.
  • (3) Wants to avoid getting sidetracked by applications.
  • (4) One expert goes so far as warning , "Cleavage could sidetrack a legal career".
  • (5) Learning about the super-clarity that is needed on stage to bring about thatslight sidetracking of reality.
  • (6) As he lays out his plan, you are totally with him, even when it gets sidetracked a bit by his big buddy Groot.
  • (7) But the Syrian “revolution” was quickly and predictably sidetracked and deformed by the much more powerful Islamists.
  • (8) Other women who have run their states laughed wryly at similar memories of enduring sexist insults and being obliged to sidetrack their election campaigns to deal with them.
  • (9) So from now on, my focus will be on working with them, face-to-face, for the whole day rather than getting sidetracked with emails, phone calls, meetings or proposals.
  • (10) And it was refreshing to be able to spend all the time on that and not be sidetracked by special effects and spectacle, which a lot of other films I've done have been.
  • (11) Asked about this Pulis said: "To say he was doing it as a sidetrack to influence the referee, you've said it.
  • (12) Environment groups urged countries to renew their pledges under the Kyoto treaty and not be sidetracked by promises of a better deal.
  • (13) Soon, dozens of cases were sidetracked by endless technical argument.
  • (14) I’m all for important discussions on the state of authorship and recognition for black artists in pop – but as Swift’s tweet showed, couching those analyses in something as pointless as the VMAs soon sidetracks the conversation.
  • (15) Yes, I want to ask a question.” Scolari was promptly sidetracked by the extra question that is invariably jammed in from somebody in the room.
  • (16) Recent debates about redress mechanisms for medical accident victims have been sidetracked by fears of an American-style medical malpractice crisis.
  • (17) In Britain we have simply allowed ourselves to be sidetracked by our governing elite's military adventures and the bread and circuses of royal occasions and sporting festivals.
  • (18) Lord knows we had the tunes but the times that we did it when we should have been great was the first year we headlined it and we got sidetracked.
  • (19) Nursing organizations formed coalitions, held meetings, published position statements, and mounted campaigns to sidetrack the AMA plans.
  • (20) 'It was refreshing to be able to spend all the time on my character in Rush and not be sidetracked by special effects and spectacle' With Daniel Bruhl in Rush.

Switch


Definition:

  • (n.) A small, flexible twig or rod.
  • (n.) A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.
  • (n.) A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.
  • (n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.
  • (v. t.) To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.
  • (v. t.) To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.
  • (v. t.) To trim, as, a hedge.
  • (v. t.) To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.
  • (v. t.) To shift to another circuit.
  • (v. i.) To walk with a jerk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We also demonstrated a significant difference in the Hb switching process between male and female newborns.
  • (2) Accumulating evidence indicates that for most tumors, the switch to the angiogenic phenotype depends upon the outcome of a balance between angiogenic stimulators and angiogenic inhibitors, both of which may be produced by tumor cells and perhaps by certain host cells.
  • (3) Nine years of clinical experience of the application of the Q-switched ruby laser to the removal of tattoos is presented.
  • (4) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
  • (5) It is hypothesized, furthermore, that the kinetics of emergence and loss of these various populations may reflect switching in the mode of immunity being expressed, particularly during the chronic phase of the infection, from that of a state of active immunity to one of immunologic memory.
  • (6) Police in Rockhampton have ordered residents to leave their homes as electricity is switched off in low-lying areas.
  • (7) The drug I started taking caused an irritating, chronic cough, which disappeared when I switched to an inexpensive diuretic.
  • (8) Our aim is to obtain evidence for trans-acting factors that regulate developmental hemoglobin (Hb) switching.
  • (9) Should such symptoms occur, the doctor has the choice of either switching to another first-step compound or reducing the dose of the first agent and combining it with one of other available drugs.
  • (10) I’ve warned Dave before to mind his ps and qs when the cameras are rolling, but the problem is you can never tell when the microphones are switched on.
  • (11) This modification improves the convergence properties of the network and is used to control a switch which activates the learning or template formation process when the input is "unknown".
  • (12) Usage of analyzing cardiac monitors with a signalling system switched on by the preset values of ST-segment depression prevented the evolution of myocardial ischemia and the development of exercise-induced anginal episodes.
  • (13) "It's very clear now that the administration agrees with us," said Wyden, hailing a switch from both the Bush and Obama administration stance that "collecting these records is vital to western civilisation".
  • (14) A programmable controller manages the olfactometer dilution stage selection, the odor stimulus switch and starts the peripheral devices required by the experiment.
  • (15) In hybrids before the switch, the gamma-genes are unmethylated.
  • (16) "The default switch should be set to release information unless there is an extremely good reason for withholding it.".
  • (17) A transistor radio activated by a mercury switch was used to reinforce head posture in two retarded children with severe cerebral palsy.
  • (18) The swi1+ gene is necessary for effective mating-type (MT) switching in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
  • (19) Consequently mother cells can switch their mating type whereas bud cells cannot.
  • (20) Even if nobody switched party, the general election result would look very different to what’s predicted if millennials could be persuaded to vote at the same rate as pensioners, as polls factor in turnout differences and oversample the elderly accordingly.