Shift

shift (English)

Etymology

ang

- |arrange, organise|lang=ang, from - skiftanan. Cognate with Dutch - lang=nl, German - lang=de, Norwegian - lang=no.

Pronunciation

  • - /SIft/
  • Rhymes: ɪft

    • Verb

    To change, swap.

  • His political stance shifted daily.

    • to move from one place to another; to redistribute.

  • We'll have to shift these boxes to the downtown office.

    • to change position.

  • She shifted slightly in her seat.

    • transitive

    To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.

    * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.ii.2:

    *: 'Tis very good to wash his hands and face often, to shift his clothes, to have fair linen about him, to be decently and comely attired ....

    To change gears (in a car).

  • I crested the hill and shifted into fifth.

    • computing

    to manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate

    computing

    to remove the first value from an array.

    to dispose of.

  • How can I shift a grass stain?

    • to hurry.

  • If you shift, you might make the 2:19.

    • - _|slang to engage in sexual petting.

    Translations

    To change, swap

  • Finska - muuttaa
  • Portugisiska - mudar
    • , trocar
  • Spanska - cambiar
  • Swahili - doria
  • Telugu: మార్చు (maarchu)

    • to move from one place to another

  • Finska - siirtää
  • Portugisiska - mover
  • Spanska - mover
  • Swahili - doria
  • Telugu: మార్చు (maarchu)

    • to change position

  • Finska - siirtyä
  • Portuguese: se mover
  • Spanska - moverse
  • Swahili - doria
  • Telugu: మారు (maaru)

    • To change gears

  • Finska - vaihtaa
  • Ungerska - vált
  • Portugisiska - trocar
  • Telugu: మార్చు (maarchu)

    • Noun

    a type of women's undergarment, a slip

  • Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.

    • * - x

    *: No; without a gown, in a shift that was somewhat of the coarsest, and none of the cleanest, bedewed likewise with some odoriferous effluvia, the produce of the day's labour, with a pitchfork in her hand, Molly Seagrim approached.

    a change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time

  • We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.

    • an act of shifting; a slight movement or change

  • There was a shift in the political atmosphere.

    • the gear mechanism in a motor vehicle

  • Does it come with a stick-shift?

    • - |the modifier button of computer keyboards

  • If you press shift-P, the preview display will change.

    • a bit_shift

    The infield_shift.

  • Teams often use the shift against this lefty.

    • Derived terms

  • blueshift
  • day_shift
  • graveyard_shift
  • night_shift
  • preshift
  • shift_break
  • shiftwork, shift_work
  • split_shift
  • swing_shift
  • stickshift
  • redshift

    • Translations

    type of women's undergarment|slip

    change of workers

  • Tjeckiska - směna
  • Finska - työvuoro
    • , vuoro

  • Georgian

  • Tyska - Schicht
  • Grekiska - βάρδια
  • Ungerska - műszak
  • Italienska - cambio
  • Makedonska - смена
  • Spanska - turno
  • Telugu: బదిలీ (badilI)

    • act of shifting

  • Tjeckiska - posun
    • , posuv
  • Finnish: siirtyminen, siirto, muutos
  • Ungerska - váltás
  • Polska - przesunięcie
  • Spanish: cambio, desviación, deslizamiento
  • Swahili - doria
  • Telugu: మార్పు (maarpu)

    • gear mechanism in a motor vehicle

  • Finska - vaihteisto
  • Ungerska - váltó
  • Spanska - cambio

    • button on a keyboard

  • Finska - vaihto
    • , shift simple:shift

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