"dimmer switch" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dimmer switches",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "dimmer switch (plural dimmer switches)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, Matt Stone (lyrics and music), “Turn It Off” (track 5), in The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording",
          "text": "Elder Price: \"Well, Elder McKinley, I think it's okay that you're having gay thoughts just so long as you never act upon them.\"\nElder McKinley: \"No, because then you're just keeping it down, like a dimmer switch on low (on low), thinking nobody needs to know (Uh-oh!)\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A light switch which can adjust the brightness of the switched lamp from dim to bright, as well as turning it on and off."
      ],
      "id": "en-dimmer_switch-en-noun-MD21OsEJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "light switch",
          "light switch"
        ],
        [
          "dim",
          "dim"
        ],
        [
          "bright",
          "bright"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "58 42",
          "word": "dipswitch"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "58 42",
          "word": "dipper switch"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A switch that changes the headlamps on a motor vehicle from low to high and from high to low beam; a high-beam switch; a brights switch."
      ],
      "id": "en-dimmer_switch-en-noun-vXo9Nba0",
      "links": [
        [
          "switch",
          "switch"
        ],
        [
          "headlamp",
          "headlamp"
        ],
        [
          "high-beam",
          "high-beam"
        ],
        [
          "brights",
          "brights"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) A switch that changes the headlamps on a motor vehicle from low to high and from high to low beam; a high-beam switch; a brights switch."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dimmer switch"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dimmer switches",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dimmer switch (plural dimmer switches)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, Matt Stone (lyrics and music), “Turn It Off” (track 5), in The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording",
          "text": "Elder Price: \"Well, Elder McKinley, I think it's okay that you're having gay thoughts just so long as you never act upon them.\"\nElder McKinley: \"No, because then you're just keeping it down, like a dimmer switch on low (on low), thinking nobody needs to know (Uh-oh!)\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A light switch which can adjust the brightness of the switched lamp from dim to bright, as well as turning it on and off."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "light switch",
          "light switch"
        ],
        [
          "dim",
          "dim"
        ],
        [
          "bright",
          "bright"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A switch that changes the headlamps on a motor vehicle from low to high and from high to low beam; a high-beam switch; a brights switch."
      ],
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        [
          "switch",
          "switch"
        ],
        [
          "headlamp",
          "headlamp"
        ],
        [
          "high-beam",
          "high-beam"
        ],
        [
          "brights",
          "brights"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) A switch that changes the headlamps on a motor vehicle from low to high and from high to low beam; a high-beam switch; a brights switch."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "dipswitch"
    },
    {
      "word": "dipper switch"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dimmer switch"
}