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Shift
ʃɪft
- move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance
"a team from the power company came to shift the cables away from the house"
move carry transfer transport convey take bring bear lug cart haul fetch switch move around transpose relocate reposition rearrange displace move slide slip move around be displaced- change the position of one's body, especially because one is nervous or uncomfortable
"he shifted a little in his chair"
- change the emphasis, direction, or focus of
"she's shifting the blame on to me"
- change in emphasis, direction, or focus
"the wind had shifted to the east"
- move quickly
"you'll have time for a bite if you shift"
- move from a place or rouse oneself from a state of inactivity
"shift yourself, Ruby, do something useful and get the plates"
- move (data) to the right or left in a register
"the partial remainder is shifted left"
- remove (a stain)
"thorough cleaning is necessary to shift all cooking residues"
- sell (something)
"a lot of high-priced product you simply don't know how to shift"
- eat or drink (something) hastily or in large amounts
- change gear in a vehicle
"she shifted down to fourth"
- be evasive or indirect
"they know not how to shift and rob as the old ones do"
- kiss and engage in sexually stimulating activity with (someone)
"she had kissed or shifted him three months earlier at a house party"
- a slight change in position, direction, or tendency
"a shift in public opinion"
movement move shifting transference transport conveyance switch transposition change alteration adjustment adaptation amendment recasting variation modification revision reversal retraction sea change U-turn rowback- the displacement of spectral lines
- a key on a typewriter or computer keyboard used to switch between two sets of characters or functions, principally between lower- and upper-case letters
- the gear lever or gear-changing mechanism in a vehicle
- the positioning of successive rows of bricks so that their ends do not coincide
- a movement of the digits of a word in a register one or more places to left or right, equivalent to multiplying or dividing the corresponding number by a power of whatever number is the base
- a change of position by two or more players before the ball is put into play
- each of two or more recurring periods in which different groups of workers do the same jobs in relay
"Anne was on the night shift"
- the group of people who work during a particular shift
"the bus was still waiting there when the day shift went home"
- a woman's straight unwaisted dress
- a long, loose-fitting undergarment
- an ingenious or devious device or stratagem
"the thousand shifts and devices of which Hannibal was a master"
- a period of kissing and engaging in sexually stimulating activity with someone
"from getting the shift to getting hitched, there is an app for everything these days"