shift
IPA: ʃˈɪft
noun
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (obsolete) A share, a portion assigned on division.
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- (computing) A bit shift.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (archaic) A contrivance, a device to try when other methods fail.
- (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (computing) A modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing Shift and the other button simultaneously).
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”). [(computing) A modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing Shift and the other button simultaneously).]
verb
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (transitive, intransitive, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (intransitive) To change position.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (obsolete, transitive) To change (clothes, especially underwear).
- (obsolete, transitive, reflexive) To change (someone's) clothes; sometimes specifically, to change underwear.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
- (transitive) To dispose of.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
- (archaic) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
- To practice indirect or evasive methods.
- (music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
- To change the reality one's consciousness resides in through meditation or other means.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
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Examples of "shift" in Sentences
- The moon and the clouds also shift.
- The platform is then shifted laterally.
- The shifting of the valve is adjustable.
- The main one was a shifting of the text.
- The scene shifts to the end of the 1931.
- This shift affected the symbolism of the emblem.
- This creates the shift in the interference pattern.
- But the balance of power in the country is shifting.
- But the shift has been to the detriment of Montreal.
- That's why I think the term "shift" is more accurate.
- The term shift work disorder, or SWD, may be new to you.
- The faster the celestial object moves toward you, the bluer the shift.
- The fundamental block on making this shift is the Pakistan government, which appears to have powerful domestic reasons to want to be able say, even as pure fig leaf, the US military is not fighting in Pakistan.
- This shift is code for sending the nearly three million people who live in camps, under the protection of U.N. forces, back home to their villages, where they are to be "protected" by the very Sudanese forces that have been slaughtering them for the last seven years.
- Funcom's new MMO project, The Secret World, has been in the works for some time already, and it sounds like its going to take a good while longer, the online game specialists confirming that major changes will see the title shift fundamentally from original plans. blog, Funcom's Ragnar Tornquist has said that these new changes will take a while to be implemented - seeing the game pushed back.
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