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English Phrasal Verbs - Cloze Tests

Electrical Review Volume Page Switch Instrument Clockwork Wound

Sentence 1893, The Electrical Review, volume 32, page 554:

To switch off the instrument when the clockwork is not wound up, and to remind the subscriber of doing so, there is provided an indicator, x, which is worked in the following manner.
Definition (
transitive
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) To
turn
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/turn
a
switch
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/switch
to the "off" position in order to
stop
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stop
or
disable
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disable
a device.
Pronunciation
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Tags: switch, off

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